The book covers anorectal anatomy, physiology, and embryology as a foundation to a detailed description of preoperative, intraoperative, and post-operative patient management. All surgical procedures are shown in step-by-step detail by leading surgeons and gastroenterologists.
This book will be relevant to general, colon, and rectal surgeons in training and practice, gastroenterologists, and other practitioners with an interest in anorectal diseases.
David E. Beck, MD, FACS, a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine in Bethesda and the Chairman, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation; New Orleans. A well published author of many journal abstracts and articles, Dr. Beck has written many Textbooks on Colorectal Surgery and has contributed chapters to several others. His extensive editorial activities currently include being an Editorial Board Member of Current Surgery, a reviewer of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum and Editor in Chief of Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery.