Topics in Colorectal Disease

A book that compiles symposia papers from the International
Journal of Colorectal Disease on issues that are highly
controversial and hotly debated.

Fistula-in-ano.- Staging of colorectal cancer.- Faecal incontinence.- Surgical aspects of familial adenomatous polyposis.- Proctography.- Lasers in the treatment of colorectal disease.- Laser therapy in the management of benign and malignant tumours in the colon and rectum.- Laser palliation for rectosigmoid cancers.- Risk factors which determine the long term outcome of Neodymium-YAG laser palliation of colorectal carcinoma.- Endoscopic laser therapy in colorectal cancer.- Photodynamic therapy for colorectal disease.- Laser treatment of intestinal vascular abnormalities.- Commentary: What role do lasers play in the management of colorectal disease.- Pouchitis.- The pathology of the ileal reservoir.- Pouchitis — incidence and characteristics in the continent ileostomy.- The role of endoscopy in pouch monitoring and pouchitis.- Clinical diagnosis.- Bacteriology (I).- Bacteriology (II).- Inflammatory mediators in ulcerative colitis.- Faecal bile acids in pouch and pouchitis patients.- Pouchitis: defining an objective method of diagnosis.- Evacuation and pouchitis.- Ileal pouch motility.- The management of anorectal disease in HIV-positive patients.