Peritoneal Surgery

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Peritoneum and Peritoneal Repair

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Peritoneum, Peritoneal Healing, and Adhesion Formation

      • Gere S. DiZerega

      Pages 3-37

   3. Peritoneal Fluid

      • Arthur F. Haney

      Pages 39-49

   4. Peritoneal Tissue Repair Cells

      • Kathleen E. Rodgers

      Pages 51-64

   5. The Biology of Peritoneal Tissue Repair

      • Andrew T. Raftery

      Pages 65-74

   6. Cytokine Responses to Peritoneal Inflammation: The Role of the Mesothelium

      • Nicholas Topley

      Pages 75-84

   7. The Role of Integrins in Peritoneal Healing

      • Kathleen E. Rodgers

      Pages 85-99

   8. Proteases and Protease Inhibitors in Tissue Repair

      • William C. Parks, Gregory S. Schultz

      Pages 101-113

3. Adhesion Formation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. The Plasmin System, a Marker of the Propensity to Develop Adhesions

      • Lena Holmdahl

      Pages 117-131

   3. Peritoneal Fibrinolysis and Adhesion Formation

      • Jeremy Thompson

      Pages 133-142

4. Surgical Technique

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. Laparoscopic Myomectomy

      • Jean-Bernard Dubuisson, Arnaud Fauconnier, Charles Chapron

      Pages 145-152

   3. Foreign Materials

      • Kristina Falk, Lena Holmdahl

      Pages 153-174

   4. The Peritoneum and Laparoscopy

      • Douglas E. Ott

      Pages 175-181

   5. Adhesions: Laparoscopy Versus Laparotomy

      • Jean-Luc Pouly, Sonteara Seak-San

      Pages 183-192

   6. Reducing Adhesion Formation in Gynecologic Procedures Using Laparoscopic Surgery

      • Salli Tazuke, Camran Nezhat

      Pages 193-199

   7. Role of Sutures and Suturing in the Formation of Postoperative Adhesions

      • Daniel P. O’Leary

      Pages 201-208

   8. Pollutants Resulting from Intraabdominal Tissue Combustion

      • Douglas E. Ott

      Pages 209-214

Peritoneal Surgery addresses the response of the peritoneum to injury and the prevention of post-surgical adhesions resulting from general and gynecologic surgery. Adhesions, or scar tissue binding two normally separate surfaces, form when the peritoneum, the membrane covering the abdominal wall and protecting the inner organs, is damaged during surgery, inflammation, or injury. Negative complications from adhesions include pelvic pain, infertility, intestinal obstruction, multiple surgical complications resulting from surgery to remove or pull them apart, and therefore a greater surgical workload and economic burden to the healthcare system. In this book, experts in the field address peritoneal repair, the role of surgical technique to prevent adhesions, adhesion formation, complications of adhesions, and developing technology in the prevention of adhesions.

• Surgery
• abdominal wall
• combustion
• complications
• fertility
• general surgery
• imaging
• infertility
• inflammation
• laparoscopic surgery
• laparoscopy
• pain
• pregnancy
• abdominal surgery

• Livingston Research Institute, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

  Gere S. diZerega

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