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Atlas of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction. Edition No. 3

  • Book

  • August 2025
  • Elsevier Health Science
  • ID: 6051627
With comprehensive, highly illustrated coverage of the latest advances in abdominal wall surgery, Dr. Michael J. Rosen’s Atlas of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, 3rd Edition, is a must-have resource for repairs ranging from the routine to the complex. Thirteen new chapters, new surgical videos, and new illustrations keep you fully up to date in this fast-growing field. From preoperative management through surgery and postoperative care, this unique text/atlas provides the guidance needed to make the most effective use of both commonly performed and new and emerging surgical techniques for reconstruction.
  • Covers congenital as well as acquired abdominal wall problems and surgeries, covering the full range of disorders which cause these defects and their surgical therapies
  • Features high-quality, full-color anatomic illustrations and clinical intraoperative photos throughout
  • Provides complete coverage of robotic, laparoscopic, open, and hybrid surgical approaches, from the routine (such as umbilical and inguinal repairs) to the complex (such as reconstruction of major abdominal wall defects with tissue loss and reoperative abdomens)
  • Includes new chapters on Synthetic Mesh Options, Biologic Mesh Options, Absorbable Synthetic Mesh Options, Robotic IPOM, Robotic eTEP, Robotic Flank, Robotic TAR, Robotic Parastomal, Subcutaneous Onlay Laparoscopic Repair, Open Anterior CST, Open Onlay, Open Parastomal, and Open Shouldice Inguinal Hernia Repair
  • Contains real-time video clips-many new to this edition-that capture key moments and techniques in abdominal wall surgery and are performed by masters in their respective fields
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

Table of Contents

1. Practical Abdominal Wall Anatomy
2. Synthetic Mesh Options (New Chapter)
3. Biologic Mesh Options (New Chapter)
4. Absorbable Synthetic Mesh Options (New Chapter)
5. Data Driven Preoperative optimization of the hernia patient
6. Robotic IPOM (New Chapter)
7. Robotic eTEP (New Chapter)
8. Robotic flank (New Chapter)
9. Robotic TAR (New Chapter)
10. Robotic Parastomal (New Chapter)
11. Subcutaneous Onlay Laparoscopic repair (New Chapter)
12. Open posterior component separation with TAR
13. Open Anterior CST (New Chapter)
14. Open Onlay (New Chapter)
15. Open parastomal (New Chapter)
16. Open flank
17. Chemical component separation
18. Tissue and Fascial expansion
19. Rotational and Free Flap closure of abdominal wall
20. Progressive Preoperative pneumoperitoneum
21. Panniculectomy
22. Perineal Hernia repair
23. Open abdomen management
24. Repair of Post tram bulges
25. Rectus Diastasis repair
26. Umbilical hernia repair
27. MIS (including robotic) TAPP inguinal hernia repair
28. Laparoscopic TEP inguinal hernia repair
29. Open Shouldice inguinal hernia repair (New Chapter)

Authors

Michael J. Rosen Professor of Surgery, Lerner College of Medicine; Director, Cleveland Clinic Comprehensive Hernia Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Dr. Michael Rosen is the Professor of Surgery at the Lerner College of Medicine and the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Comprehensive Hernia Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Rosen also serves as the Medical Director of the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative, a nonprofit organization formerly known as Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative Foundation, which collects and aggregates health information, and publishes and provides data sets of health information related to abdominal core and hernia surgical repairs. Dr. Rosen's practice focuses on abdominal surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction, adrenal surgery, appendectomy, biliary surgery, complex abdominal hernia repair, diagnostic laparoscopy, gastrectomy, gastrointestinal surgery, and hernia open repair surgery. Dr. Rosen has published extensively on these areas of surgery and this would be his third time editing the Atlas of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction.