Published September, 2012
By Fulvio Calise and Luciano Casciola
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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This book intends to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the newest techniques in minimally invasive liver surgery.

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Published September, 2012
By Nicolo de Manzini
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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This book gives an updated and detailed overview of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for rectal cancer.

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Published May, 2012
By Roberto Tersigni and Cosimo Prantera
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease, whose symptoms are similar to other intestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis;

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Published May, 2012
By Antonio Mussa
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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This book presents an overview of the different surgical techniques, from minimally invasive surgery to the most complicated and difficult operations in oncology. It also highlights the importance of evolution in surgical technologies.

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Published April, 2012
By Walter Siquini
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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Pancreatic diseases are a crucial issue not only because of their epidemiological significance, and their anatomical and metabolic complexity, but also because of the different treatment options available and their implications for surgery.

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Published September, 2011
By Vincenzo Mandala
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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This is the first time a book about laparoscopy in emergency abdominal surgery has been published. The authors' contributions are founded on evidence-based medicine, which give the book scientific credibility, but this is coupled with their experience of daily practice, which adds an important complementary dimension to evidence-based medicine.

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Published September, 2011
By Giovanni De Manzoni, G. De Manzoni and Giovanni di Manzoni
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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The book analyzes all the aspects of staging and treatment, such as modern diagnostic and staging techniques (MRI or PET-CT), endoscopic treatment of early cancer, new minimally invasive and open surgical techniques, and combined treatment.

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Published October, 2010
By Antonio Bolognese and Luciano Izzo
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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The continuing development of various therapies to treat cancerous tumors has forced surgeons to reevaluate the role of radical surgery. This book explores how surgery, coupled with these therapies, can improve outcomes for patients with tumoral disease.

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Published October, 2010
By Andrea Renda
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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In 2006, when my colleague Andrea Renda proposed multiple primary malignancies (MPM) as the subject of the Biennial Report to the 2008 Congress of the Italian - ciety of Surgery, I, together with the Steering Committee, quickly agreed.

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Published October, 2010
By Lorenzo Capussotti
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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Surgery is the gold standard treatment of colorectal liver metastases. In the present book all aspects of surgical treatment of colorectal liver metastases are analyzed based on a systematic, updated analysis of the literature.

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