Going Back to the Beginning: The Theory of Retrogenesis
Stage 1 Normal adult Abilities consistent with expectations for a normal adult Response is to a normal adult Stage 2 Normal older adult Very mild memory loss Response is to…
Getting the Food in…and Getting it Out
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Verna Benner Carson, Katherine Johnson Vanderhorst and Harold G. KoenigCare Giving for Alzheimer’s Disease10.1007/978-1-4939-2407-3_6 6. Getting the Food in…and Getting it Out Verna Benner Carson1 , Katherine Johnson Vanderhorst2 and Harold G. Koenig3 (1)…
Help! My Mother Is Lost and I Cannot Find Her!
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Verna Benner Carson, Katherine Johnson Vanderhorst and Harold G. KoenigCare Giving for Alzheimer’s Disease10.1007/978-1-4939-2407-3_5 5. Help! My Mother Is Lost and I Cannot Find Her! Verna Benner Carson1 , Katherine Johnson Vanderhorst2 and…
Laparoscopy-Assisted Total Gastrectomy
Fig. 24.1 Patient positioning Fig. 24.2 Operating room setup (From Tanigawa [1] with permission) Port Placement Entry into the abdomen is gained through a 2 cm vertical skin incision that…
Laparoscopic Proximal Gastrectomy with Double Tract Anastomosis
Fig. 23.1 Trocar placement and a mini-laparotomy site for laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy. Five trocars are placed in the abdominal wall. The trocar site on the left rectus muscle is extended…
Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy with Side-Side Thoracic Anastomosis
Fig. 12.1 Abdominal trocar placement Abdominal Dissection The gastrohepatic ligament is divided. The dissection is continued to the right crus up toward the phrenoesophageal ligament and across the diaphragm to…
Thoracolaparoscopic Esophagectomy in the Prone Position for Carcinoma of the Esophagus
Fig. 15.1 Operating table side support is fixed to the table side rails. (A) Center knob to adjust the arm. (B) Side knob to pull out the inner rod and…
Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Gastric Cancer: Its Indication, Technique, and Our Experience
Fig. 8.1 This is a case of a 93-year-old female who was referred to our hospital for the treatment of a gastric tumor that by biopsy was group 3. Conventional…
Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Transhiatal Esophagectomy with Cervical Anastomosis
Fig. 13.1 Patient positioning A bean bag and an overlying gel pad are prepositioned on the operating table. The patient is positioned on the operating table so that the anterior…
Laparoscopic Partial Gastrectomy
Fig. 20.1 Privette’s anatomic classification of gastric lesions and the distinct surgical approach to them Fig. 20.2 Therapeutic strategy for suspected gastric GISTs (From Sasaki et al. [9], with permission)…
