Читать книгу Gastrointestinal Surgical Techniques in Small Animals - Группа авторов - Страница 10

Small animal general surgery has evolved rapidly in the past decade. Procedures have become increasingly complex, including the expansion of minimally invasive surgery options. Gastrointestinal conditions requiring surgical therapy are very common in small animal practice. Therefore, we have created this gastrointestinal surgery textbook to serve as a current and comprehensive reference tool for general practitioners, surgery residents in training, and surgeons.

In this textbook, current techniques for gastrointestinal surgery are thoroughly described with detailed illustrations embedded in the text. With this in mind we chose to work closely with Molly Pullen (www.mborman.com) for her expert pen‐and‐ink illustrations. In addition, when necessary, surgical techniques are supplemented with intraoperative images.

For each technique described, tips are included by the authors to explain the surgeon's preferences among all the techniques depicted, and to give details to help the reader perform the procedures effectively. Our intent for adding tips was to allow chapter authors the ability to express their preferences in technique, many of which are not evidence‐based.

In this textbook we placed a strong emphasis on description of surgical techniques. We chose not to delve heavily in the pathophysiology or the diagnostic workup for the different surgical conditions mentioned because those topics are well described in other textbooks.

We would like to thank all the authors who assisted us during the arduous process of developing this new textbook. In the future, this textbook will be updated as needed to follow the progress and advances in veterinary gastrointestinal surgery.