Mishra (minimal access surgery, The Global Open U., India) explains laparoscopic surgery to general surgeons, urologists, and gynecologists who have background in conventional operative surgical and gynecological procedures. He discusses the essentials, including imaging, equipment and instruments, sterilization, anesthesia, abdominal access techniques, laparoscopic port position, dissection and tissue approximation techniques, hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery, and tissue retrieval and port closure techniques, then general surgical, gynecological, urologic, and pediatric procedures, as well as other minimal access procedures, bariatric surgery, complications, training, and transanal endoscopic microsurgery. This edition has been revised and rewritten, has updated illustrations and new materials, and includes advanced minimal access surgeries like single incision laparoscopic surgery, transmission electron microscopy, and the principles of da Vinci robotic surgery. Four DVDs contain 14 surgical videos. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)