Operative Techniques in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- SECTION 1 Instrumentation, Requirements, and Perioperative Care Pathways -- 1 Training, Initial Case Selection, and Postoperative Care -- 2 Equipment, Operating Room Setup, and Patient Positioning -- 3 Port Placement, Laparoscopic Specimen Extraction Site, and Port Site Closure -- SECTION 2 Key Steps -- 4 High and Low Ligation of the Inferior Mesenteric Artery -- 5 Ileocolic Artery Ligation -- 6 Hepatic Flexure Mobilization -- 7 Mobilization of the Splenic Flexure -- 8 Mobilizing the Mesorectum -- 9 Division of the Upper and Lower Rectum -- 10 Stapled Coloanal and Colorectal Anastomoses -- 11 Specimen Extraction for Very Low Tumors and Handsewn Coloanal Anastomosis -- SECTION 3 Operative Procedures -- 12 Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy -- 13 Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy -- 14 Robotic Single-Port Right Hemicolectomy -- 15 Laparoscopic Sigmoid Colectomy -- 16 Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Sigmoid Colectomy -- 17 Laparoscopic Total Abdominal Colectomy with Ileorectal Anastomosis -- 18 Total Proctocolectomy with Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis -- 19 Single-Incision Laparoscopic Total Abdominal Colectomy with End Ileostomy -- 20 Laparoscopic Low Anterior Resection -- 21 Laparoscopic Abdominoperineal Resection -- 22 Robotic-Assisted Low Anterior Resection -- 23 Laparoscopic Well's Rectopexy -- 24 Laparoscopic Resection Rectopexy -- 25 Laparoscopic Loop Ileostomy and Loop Colostomy Formation -- 26 Laparoscopic Hartmann's Procedure -- 27 Laparoscopic Reversal of Hartmann's Procedure -- SECTION 4 Dealing with Complications and Difficult Situations -- 28 Complications and Difficulties -- 29 Additional Operative Procedures -- Index.