Current Aspects of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery

I Standards.- Surgical Treatment of Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease.- Therapeutic Strategy in Sigmoid Diverticulitis: A Survey of German Surgical Departments.- Changing Standards in Our Practice of Rectal Cancer Surgery.- Standards in the Treatment of Colorectal Carcinoma: A German View.- Surgical Principles in the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer: A French View.- II Indications.- Laparoscopic Sigmoid Resection in Diverticulitis.- Indications for Laparoscopic Sigmoid Resection in Diverticulitis.- Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery: Indications and Design of a Multicentre Study.- Laparoscopic Surgery in Crohn's Disease.- Extracorporeal Resection of the Rectum in the Treatment of Prolapse Using the Stapler.- Rectal Prolapse: Rectopexy or Resection?.- Laparoscopic Surgery for Cancer of the Colon: A Pragmatic Approach.- Laparoscopic Operations in Colorectal Cancer.- Laparoscopic Resection of the Colon: Indications, Patient Selection, Results to Date.- Surgery for Rectal Cancer: Is It a Laparoscopic Procedure?.- Complications in Minimally Invasive Colon Surgery.- III Principles.- General Principles of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery.- Anesthetic and Monitoring Considerations in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Colectomy.- Assessment of Operative Difficulty and Postoperative Recovery in Laparoscopic Surgery of the Colon.- Cytological Examinations After Intraoperative Lavage in Colon Carcinoma Patients Undergoing Conventional and Laparoscopic Surgery.- Complexity of Laparoscopic Colon Procedures and Program Development.- IV Laparoscopic Surgical Techniques.- Laparoscopic Surgery of the Colon: Our Experience of 142 Cases.- Reconstruction After Low Auterior.- Laparoscopic Abdominoperineal Excision of the Rectum.- Laparoscopic Rectopexy.- Laparoscopic Intracorporeal End-to-End Colonic Anastomosis by Means of Individually Placed Staples.- Ultrasonography of Adhesions Prior to Laparoscopic Procedures After Previous Abdominal Operations.- V Results: Morbidity, Mortality, Long-Term Results.- Our Experience with Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery.- Laparoscopic Rectosigmoid Resection for Carcinoma.- Laparoscopically Assisted Colorectal Surgery: A Review of 87 Cases.- Accelerated Recovery After Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery for Cancer in Old Patients.- Laparoscopic Colectomy: Experience and Outcomes at the Minimally Invasive Surgical Training Institute in Baltimore.- The Need for Clinical Trials and Randomized Studies to Assess Laparoscopic Colectomy.- VI Advantages of the Laparoscopic Approach.- Laparoscopic Surgery for Carcinoma of the Colon: Does It Come Up to Standard?.- Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery as Routine in a Community Hospital: Tactics and Results.- Open versus Laparoscopic Surgery in Colorectal Surgery: Results.- Laparoscopic Diagnosis, Staging and Follow-up of Colorectal Malignancies.- VII Summary of Discussiou and Opinion Poll.