**Meet the editor**

Dr. Somchai Amornyotin graduated at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in 1989. He became the staff of the Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1996. Until 2004 he became the associate professor of the Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital,

Mahidol University. From 2005 until 2009 he was the chief of Anesthesiology Division of Siriraj GI Endoscopy Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University. His first scientific paper was puplished in Thailand in 1999. He has practiced anesthesia for gastrointestinal endoscopy since 2002. He was the committee of Siriraj GI Endoscopy Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital in 2005. More than 50 of his articles have been published in Thai and international medical journals. Dr. Amornyotin is member of the Royal College of Anesthesiologists of Thailand and many scientific societies. He is the reviewer and editor of many international journals.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Endoscopy and Histopathology 3**

Chapter 3 **Anesthetic Management for Laparoscopic**

**Cholecystectomy 39** Somchai Amornyotin

**Endoscopes 33** Norman Miner

Karel Geboes, Karen Geboes and Anne Jouret-Mourin

Chapter 2 **Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization of Heat-Sensitive**

Chapter 4 **Adhesion Prevention Strategies in Laparoscopic Surgery 49** George Pados, Anastasios Makedos and Basil Tarlatzis

Petr Lukes, Michal Zabrodsky, Jan Plzak, Martin Chovanec, Jaroslav

Timothy P. McEvoy, Charles A. Elmaraghy and Kris R. Jatana

Chapter 5 **Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) — Endoscopic Method for Detection of Head and Neck Cancer 75**

Chapter 6 **Therapeutic and Diagnostic Approaches in Rhinology**

Chapter 7 **Role of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery in Pediatric Acute**

Betka, Eva Foltynova and Jan Betka

**Section 1 General Aspects 1**

**Section 2 Head and Neck 73**

**and Allergy 89**

Pongsakorn Tantilipikorn

**Complicated Sinusitis 103**
