Amazon.com description: Product Description: Recommended in the Brandon/Hill selected list of print books and journals for the small medical library - April 2001 & 2003Established for over 10 years as "the gold standard in its discipline" (JAMA), Dr. Corman's classic is now in its updated and expanded Fourth Edition. With 11 new contributing authors, 11 new chapters, and over 1,000 new illustrations, this edition is the most current, comprehensive, and abundantly illustrated text on colorectal surgery.The book provides complete coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of all disorders affecting the anus, rectum, and colon. New to the Fourth Edition are chapters on anatomy, embryology, and physiology of the anus, rectum, and colon; diet and drugs in colorectal surgery; flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy; setting up a colorectal physiology laboratory; analgesia; colorectal trauma; management of foreign bodies; colorectal manifestations of AIDS; laparoscopic-assisted colon and rectal surgery; and enterostomal therapy.The authors describe in precise detail complex anorectal and colon operations, particularly reconstructive surgery. Complementing the text are more than 1,400 illustrations, including 77 in full colour