This handbooks presents new material in the rapidly changing field of laporoscopy and surgical oncology. Eubanks (Duke U.), Ricardo V. Cohen and Riad N. Younes (U. of Sao Paulo), and Fredrick Brody (Cleveland Clinic) have selected contributors from several continents and numerous countries to provide a broad perspective on topics including general concepts and physiologic alterations, hand assist devices, complications and controversies, and staging and treating specific malignancies.
