Justin B. Dimick MD - Clinical Scenarios in Surgery: Decision Making and Operative Technique

Clinical Scenarios in Surgery

DECISION MAKING AND OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE

Clinical Scenarios in Surgery

DECISION MAKING AND OPERATIVE TECHNIQUE

Editors

Justin B. Dimick, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr., MD

William H. Muller, Jr. Professor

Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

University of Virginia

Christopher J. Sonnenday, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Assistant Professor of Health Management & Policy

Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, and Transplant Surgery

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Contributors

Edouard Aboian, MD

Clinical Fellow in Vascular Surgery

Department of Vascular Surgery

Maimonides Medical Center

Brooklyn, New York

Lifestyle-Limiting Claudication

Daniel Albo, MD, PhD

Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology

Department of Surgery

Baylor College of Medicine

Director, GI Oncology Program

Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas

Splenic Flexure Colon Cancer

Amy K. Alderman, MD, MPH

The Swan Center

Alpharetta, Georgia

Breast Reconstruction

Steven R. Allen, MD

Adrenal Insufficiency

John B. Ammori, MD

Assistant Professor

Department of Surgery

Division of General and Oncologic Surgery

Case Western Reserve University

Attending Surgeon

Department of Surgery

Division of General and Oncologic Surgery

University Hospitals Case Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor

Christopher D. Anderson, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Chief, Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery

Department of Surgery

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Jackson, Mississippi

Acute Liver Failure

Stanley W. Ashley, MD

Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Chief Medical Officer

Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs

Administration

Brigham and Womens Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Severe Acute Pancreatitis

Samir S. Awad, MD, FACS

Associate Professor of Surgery

Chief, Section of Surgical Critical Care

Program Director Surgical Critical Care

Department of Surgery

Baylor College of Medicine

Associate Chief of Surgery

Medical Director SICU

Michael E. DeBakey VAMC

Houston, Texas

Fulminant Clostridium Difficile Colitis

Douglas C. Barnhart, MD, MSPH

Associate Professor

Division of Pediatric Surgery

University of Utah

Attending Surgeon

Pediatric Surgery

Primary Childrens Medical Center

Salt Lake City, Utah

Palpable Abdominal Mass in a Toddler

William C. Beck, MD

Resident Physician, General Surgery

Department of General Surgery

Vanderbilt University

Resident Physician, General Surgery

Department of General Surgery

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee

Cholangitis

Natasha S. Becker, MD, MPH

Fellow in Surgical Critical Care

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas

Fulminant Clostridium Difficile Colitis

Filip Bednar, MD

House Officer

Department of Surgery

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Duodenal Injury

Jessica M. Bensenhaver, MD

Surgical Breast Oncology Fellow

Clinical Lecturer of Surgery

University of Michigan Health Systems

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ductal Carcinoma In Situ

Noelle L. Bertelson, MD

Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery Fellow

Surgery

Mayo Clinic

Phoenix, Arizona

Large Bowel Obstruction from Colon Cancer

Avi Bhavaraju, MD

Instructor in Surgery

Division of Trauma & Surgical Critical Care

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

Pelvic Fracture

James H. Black, III, MD

Bertram M. Bernheim, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Department of Surgery

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Attending Surgeon

Department of Surgery

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland

Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

Brendan J. Boland, MD