Osman Nuri Dilek graduated at the Ankara University Medical School  and currently is Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery of the Izmir Katip Celebi Universitesi, Turkey. His main areas of interest are Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery. He is a very active researcher, and a member of several professional societies.Selman Uranues is Professor of Surgery at the Medical University of Graz. He has acquired an international reputation based on his expertise in minimally invasive surgery, as well as visceral traumatology and acute care surgery. His main areas of interest are gastrointestinal, pancreatic, splenic and reflux surgery. He has published widely on rather all areas of abdominal surgery. He is an honorary member of the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery, the Turkish Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgeryand the Serbian Society of Surgery. Rifat Latifi, MD, FACS, FICS, FKCS,  is a Professor and Chairman of surgery at New York Medical College (NYMC), School of Medicine, and Director of the Department of Surgery at Westchester Medical Center Health Network. Dr. Latifi’s special clinical interests are in complex re-operative surgery, geriatric surgery, telemedicine, trauma and nutrition support for critically ill patients. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, has written or edited 19 books, and serves on the editorial boards of a number of peer-reviewed journals. He is the founding president  and Fellow of Kosova College of Surgeons and the Editor-in-Chief of Kosova Journal of Surgery. In addition, he is an associate editor of the Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery and section editor of Hernia Journal.

• Preface.- Foreward.- 1. Prophylactic surgery;  Why, when and how?.- 2. Minimal invasive procedures and prophylactic surgery.- 3. PROPHYLACTIC APPROACHES IN ABDOMINAL WALL SURGERY: PREVENTING AND REPAIRING THE BURST ABDOMEN.- 4. Cost-effectiveness of prophylactic surgeries in preventing hereditary predisposition syndromes.- 5. Prophylactic thyroidectomy.- 6. Prophylactic parathyroidectomy.- 7. Genetic Predispositions and Prophylactic Mastectomy in Breast Cancer Patients.- 8. Prophylactic mastectomy for benign pathologies.- 9. Prophylactic surgery for liver pathologies.- 10. Prophylactic surgical procedures for pancreas pathologies.- 11. Prophlactic surgery for gallbladder and biliary tract pathologies.- 12. Prophylactic splenectomy.- 13. Prophylactic surgical procedures for esophageal pathologies.- 14. Stomach and duodenum resections for genetic predispositions.- 15. Prophylactic surgery for benign diseases of stomach and duodenum.- 16. PROPHYLACTIC SURGERY FOR SMALL INTESTINES.- 17. Prophylactic appendectomy.- 18. Vascular problems related to colectomy: habitual and variant anatomy, prevention and tactical aspects.- 19. Prophylactic resection for genetic predispositions of colon and rectum.- 20. Prophylactic colon and rectum resections for benign pathologies.- 21. Prophylactic adrenalectomy.- 22. Omentectomy; Whether to Perform Should be Questioned.- 23. Open access in laparoscopic surgery to prevent entry complications.- 24. Prophylactic Surgery in Trauma.- 25. Surgical prophlaxis of obesity.- 26. Histopathological findings in prophylactic surgical specimens.- 27. Prophylactic surgery for genetic predisposition of female organs.- 28. Prophylactic surgery for benign gynecologic pathologies .- 29. Prophylactic surgical procedures in Plastic Surgery.- 30. Prophylactic cardiac and vascular surgery procedures.- 31. Prophylactic chest surgery procedures.- 32. Prophylactic surgery for Urologic pathologies.- 33. Prophylactic procedures in Pediatric Surgery.- 34. Prophylactic surgery for Neurosurgical pathologies.- 35.  Prophylactic procedures for orthopedic pathologies.- 36. ETHICAL AND LEGAL DIMENSIONS OF PROPHYLACTIC SURGERY.- 37. Psychiatric aspects of prophylactic surgery in adults.- 38. Child and adolescent aspects in prophylactic surgery.- 39. Endoscopic approaches for prophlactic purposes.- 40. The place of prophylactic surgery in guidelines.- 41. Interventional procedures reducing the needs  for conventional surgery.- 42. Radiological Screening for Hereditary Cancer Predisposition Syndromes.