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Advances In Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery: Management And Diagnostic Techniques, Gregory L. Falk
Advances In Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery: Management And Diagnostic Techniques, Gregory L. Falk
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Upper gastrointestinal surgery has progressively moved from the surgically open abdomen to minimally invasive surgery, largely due to technological improvements in instrumentation. A direct result of this Gestalt has been improved patient comfort, rapid recovery and significantly less length of stay in the hospital and therefore significant cost-savings. This was the key impetus to my development of many of the skills in minimally invasive surgery and the subsequent dissemination to other surgeons in an organized and well-recognized teaching system. Many of the novel techniques of this type of surgery led to several publications both in the English and French oncological …