The Wise Scalpel: Tips & -- Traps in Liver, Gallbladder & -- Pancreatic Surgery -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Section I: HPB surgical craft -- Chapter 1: Wisdom -- Chapter 2: History of HPB surgery -- Chapter 3: Multidisciplinary HPB teams -- Chapter 4: Managing the operative environment -- Chapter 5: Quality of HPB surgical care -- Chapter 6: Operating with 'heuristics' -- Cognitive heuristics -- Motor heuristics -- Chapter 7: Surgical skill development -- Chapter 8: Technology: from electrocautery to robot -- Chapter 9: Who should you operate on? -- Chapter 10: Starting and finishing an operation -- Chapter 11: The HPB 'complication radar' -- Chapter 12: Giving bad news -- Section II: Liver -- Chapter 13: Liver anatomy -- Liver cover and attachments -- External liver orientation -- Internal liver orientation (obliquity) -- Plates and sheaths -- Sectoral/segmental anatomy -- Umbilical fossa -- The caudate lobe -- Hepatic veins and inferior vena cava -- Chapter 14: Liver procedures -- Making a liver operative plan -- Incision -- Retractors -- Liver quality and resection -- Intraoperative ultrasound -- Exposure, inflow control, outflow control (EIO) -- Mobilizing the right liver -- IVC and hepatic vein dissection -- Removing liver segments -- Removing liver 'lobes' -- Central liver issues -- Caudate resection -- Parenchymal dissection (controlling blood loss) -- Laparoscopic liver resection -- Bleeding control during laparoscopic liver procedures -- Completing a liver operation -- Chapter 15: Liver special circumstances -- Post-hepatectomy liver failure -- Ablation (radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation) and steriotactic radiation -- Liver abscess -- Hemangiomas -- Benign liver tumors -- Simple cysts and polycysts of the liver -- Hydatid cysts.

Biliary cystadenoma -- Neuroendocrine liver metastases -- Ruptured and bleeding hepatocellular tumors -- Hilar cholangiocarcinoma -- Redo hepatectomies -- Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis -- Right heart failure -- Portosystemic shunt surgery -- Liver transplantation -- Section III: Porta hepatis -- Chapter 16: Porta hepatis anatomy, procedures and special circumstances -- Porta hepatis anatomy -- Porta hepatis procedures -- Porta hepatis special circumstances -- Section IV: Gallbladder -- Chapter 17: Gallbladder anatomy -- Chapter 18: The safe cholecystectomy (avoiding bile duct injuries) -- Entry problems -- Gallbladder surgery mechanics -- The hepatobiliary triangle -- How a 'classic' bile duct injury happens -- The cognitive triad framework for understanding bile duct injuries -- Avoiding a bile duct injury (navigating away from disaster) -- Sectoral duct injury -- Chapter 19: The difficult cholecystectomy -- Chapter 20: Bile duct injury repair -- Early bile duct injury repair -- Remote bile duct injury repair -- Hilar plate injuries -- Help in the gallbladder operating room -- Chapter 21: Gallbladder special circumstances -- Cholecystectomy in morbidly obese patients -- Open cholecystectomy -- Stones in the bile duct -- Intraoperative cholangiogram -- Gallbladder plate injury -- Mirizzi syndrome -- 'Erosive' cholecystitis -- Sump syndrome -- Complicated biliary fistula -- Gallbladder cancer -- Section V: Pancreas -- Chapter 22: Pancreatic anatomy -- Pancreas orientation -- Transverse colon mesentery -- Splanchnic veins -- Pancreatic head -- Pancreatic body and tail -- Pancreas duodenal relationship -- Chapter 23: Pancreatic procedures -- Preoperative pancreatic surgery issues -- Controlling blood loss in pancreatic surgery -- Incisions -- Head of pancreas operations (Whipple) -- Left pancreatic operations (distal pancreatectomy).

Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy -- Central pancreas operations -- Completing a pancreatic operation -- Chapter 24: Pancreatic special circumstances -- The leaking pancreas -- Borderline resectable -- Ampullary resection -- Enucleating pancreatic tumors -- Pancreatic cancer palliation -- Autoimmune pancreatitis -- Pancreatic cysts -- ERCP complications -- Chapter 25: Surgery for chronic pancreatitis -- Frey procedure -- Distal pancreatectomy for chronic pancreatitis -- Whipple procedure for chronic pancreatitis -- Chronic pancreatic pseudocysts -- Pancreatopleural fistulas -- Chapter 26: Severe acute pancreatitis (riding the bull) -- The inflammatory process -- Treatment decisions in necrotizing pancreatitis -- Operating in the 'maelstrom' -- Transgastric debridement -- Other options for treatment -- Section VI: HPB extras -- Chapter 27: Other organs of the upper abdomen -- Duodenum -- Colon -- Stomach -- Spleen -- Kidneys and adrenals -- Chapter 28: Dilated ducts and other oddities -- Chapter 29: General surgery operations on cirrhotics -- Chapter 30: The HPB surgeon in trauma -- Chapter 31: Critical care and the HPB surgeon -- Chapter 32: Pediatric HPB surgery -- Epilogue: Parting thoughts -- Index -- Back Cover.