• The BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Endoscopy and Endosurgery provides a comprehensive and practical guide for practitioners who wish to practice minimally invasive techniques. Routine procedures are described in detail and more advanced techniques suitable for advanced practitioners are also included.

    • All the chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated
    • Chapters on oesophagoscopy, interventional endoscopy and future developments are new to this edition
    • More detailed information on minimally invasive techniques in cats included throughout
    • The chapter on laparoscopy has been significantly expanded and covers techniques ranging from liver biopsy and ovariectomy to cholecystectomy and adrenalectomy

    Exclusive video content

    New to this edition are a series of videos that accompany the chapters. These videos are available from the BSAVA Library.

  • List of contributors

    Foreword

    Preface

    1 An introduction to endoscopy and endosurgery
    Philip Lhermette, David Sobel, Elise Robertson

    2 Instrumentation
    Christopher J. Chamness

    3 Flexible endoscopy: basic technique
    Edward J. Hall

    4 Flexible endoscopy: oesophagoscopy
    David Twedt

    5 Flexible endoscopy: upper gastrointestinal tract
    Edward J. Hall

    6 Flexible endoscopy: lower gastrointestinal tract
    James W. Simpson

    7 Flexible endoscopy: respiratory tract
    Diane M. Levitan, Susanne Kimmel

    8 Principles of rigid endoscopy
    Philip Lhermette, Elise Robertson, David Sobel

    9 Rigid endoscopy: rhinoscopy
    Philip Lhermette, David Sobel, Elise Robertson

    10 Rigid endoscopy: otoendoscopy
    Fabia Scarampella, Laura Ordeix, Michela De Lucia

    11 Rigid endoscopy: urethrocystoscopy and vaginoscopy
    Gary England, Julie K. Byron

    12 Rigid endoscopy: laparoscopy
    Philip Lhermette, Eric Monnet, Philipp Mayhew

    13 Rigid endoscopy: thoracoscopy
    Philipp Mayhew

    14 Rigid endoscopy: arthroscopy
    Rob Pettitt, John F. Innes

    15 Interventional endoscopy and radiology
    Gerard McLauchlan

    16 An Introduction to laser endosurgery
    David Sobel, Jody Lulich and Maurici Batalla

    17 Future developments
    Fausto Brandão, Alexander Chernov

    Index

  • Philip Lhermette BSc(Hons) CBiol FRSB BVetMed FRCVS

    Philip completed a BSc in Animal Physiology at the University of Nottingham in 1977 and graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 1982. After five years in mixed practice he founded Elands Veterinary Clinic in Sevenoaks, Kent. Philip has studied endoscopy and endosurgery since 1995 and laser surgery since 2001. He trained with David Sobel in the USA and has received advanced training in human minimally invasive surgery at the Spire Tunbridge Wells Hospital. He pioneered many minimally invasive techniques, including laparoscopic ovariohysterectomy and laser surgery in the UK and currently runs an endoscopy referral service. He lectures extensively throughout the UK, Europe and Asia.

    David Sobel DVM MRCVS

    David began his veterinary training at the University of Glasgow before returning to the USA to receive his DVM from Tufts Veterinary School in 1992. He was on the staff at Dover Veterinary Hospital during which time he received advanced training in human endoscopic surgery at the New England Medical Center in Boston. In 2000, he launched Metropolitan Veterinary Consultants, providing mobile endosurgical services across New England and consulting worldwide. David lives in New Hampshire with his wife, four children and two dogs.

    Elise Robertson BS BVetMed MACVSc(Feline) DipABVP(Feline) FHEA FRSB FRCVS

    Elise graduated from Colorado State University in 1998 and the Royal Veterinary College in 2003. She received her formal training in medical endoscopy and ‘keyhole’ surgery from well-known human and veterinary institutions based

    in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the USA. Elise operates a peripatetic medicine and endoscopy/endosurgery referral service for practices based in South East England, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Elise is Head

    European Mentor for the ISFM/University of Sydney Distance Education in Feline Medicine, lecturer at the Translational Medicine Institute at Colorado State University, and regular guest-lecturer at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. She was the 2018 recipient of the BSAVA PetSavers Award for her meritorious contributions as a veterinary surgeon in small animal veterinary practice, and has been awarded Fellowships of the Higher Education Academy and Royal Society of Biology.

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