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Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations in Abdominal Surgery

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This chapter will emphasize some of the most complicated situations faced by general surgeons including enterocutaneous fistulas, necrotizing soft tissue infections, postoperative anastomotic leaks, and delayed recognition of intestinal ischemia in order to shed light on how we surgeons handle serious situations. It will refrain from covering most of the cross-over between abdominal surgery and oncologic or trauma causes.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, 100 Woods Road, Valhalla, New York, NY, 10595, USA

    Rifat Latifi M.D., F.A.C.S.

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Rifat Latifi M.D., F.A.C.S.

  3. Department of Surgery, Banner University Medical Center, 172 S. Bonanza Ave., Tucson, AZ, 85748, USA

    John A. Stroster Ph.D.

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Latifi, R., Stroster, J.A. (2016). Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations in Abdominal Surgery. In: Surgical Decision Making. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29824-5_12

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