Coloproctology (2^nd Ed., Second Edition 2024) A Practical Guide

Colorectal surgery has been evolving rapidly over recent years and the COVID pandemic has necessitated a critical approach to all aspects of care. 

This book offers an up-to-date appraisal of the increasingly used neoadjuvant therapy. In many situations a multidisciplinary approach is taken to achieve high quality and successful outcomes. In addition, topics such as the management of the open abdomen, complex abdominal wall reconstruction, artificial intelligence and modern management of inflammatory bowel disease are covered.

Written by experts in their field, this book is of interest to both trainees and practicing surgeons in coloproctology.

Triage optimisation in patients with symptoms suspicious of colorectal cancer.- Total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT) in rectal cancer; where now, where next?.- Quality of life considerations in extended pelvic resection for advanced and recurrent malignancy.- Lynch syndrome: detection and optimising outcomes.- Neoadjuvant therapy in colon cancer.- Appendiceal neoplasia.- Patient optimisation for colorectal surgery.- Chronic perineal sinus: prevention and therapeutic options in established disease.- Contemporary management of the open abdomen.- Anastomotic techniques for Crohn's surgery.- Modern treatment of haemorrhoids.- Microbiome manipulation in coloproctology.- Forty years of the ileoanal pouch surgery:  epidemiology and management of late failure.- Contemporary management of Fistula in ano.

Martyn Evans BM, MPhil, FRCS (Gen) is a Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon in Swansea and an Associate Professor of Surgery at Swansea University. He has a particular interest in surgery for advanced and recurrent pelvic malignancy. Martyn was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon in 2012. Prior to appointment, he completed his undergraduate training in Southampton and then undertook basic and higher surgical training on the south coast of England and in Wales. After completion of training, he undertook a post CCT fellowship in laparoscopic colorectal and advanced pelvic malignancy at the John Goligher Colorectal Unit in Leeds.

He is currently an Editor for the surgical journal BJS (formerly the British Journal of Surgery), The Lead Clinician for the Wales Bowel Cancer Initiative and Chairs the UK National Bowel Cancer Clinical Project Board.

Mark Davies BSc, MB BS, MS, FRCS (Gen Surg) Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon in Swansea Bay University Health Board and an Associate Professor at Swansea University. Mr Davies qualified from The London Hospital Medical College in 1995. He was awarded a Master of Surgery by the University of London, for a thesis into the development and progression of colorectal cancer. He completed his training in general and colorectal surgery in London, Cardiff and Swansea and undertook a fellowship in complex pelvic surgery at The Christie Hospital in Manchester.
Since his appointment as an NHS consultant in Swansea in 2007, he has specialised in the management of a wide range of malignant and benign colorectal conditions, but specifically diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy, minimally invasive surgery, diverticular disease, anal conditions and inflammatory bowel disease.

Rhiannon Harries BMBS, MD, FRCS (GenSurg) is Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon at Swansea Bay University Health Board, and Honorary Senior Lecturer for Swansea Univers