Published October, 2010
By Alfonso Barbarisi, Paolo Bechi, Paolo Innocenti, Carlo A. Redi, Francesco Rosso and Carlo Alberto Redi
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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The 20th century has finished, the century when surgery took huge steps forward thanks to progress in technology. Now we have entered the "century of biotechnologies", which will not only generate progress in surgery, but also lead to a real "cultural revolution" that will completely change approaches to solving different problems in medicine.

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Published October, 2009
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 October, 2009
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 November, 2008
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 November, 2008
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, 2008
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 October, 2007
By Alfredo Guglielmi, Andrea Ruzzenente, Calogero Iacono, L. Marchiori, S. Pachera, L. Bortolasi, R. Manfredi and P. Capelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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This book contains an up-to-date review of diagnostic and staging tools of cholangiocarcinoma, a guide to optimal selection of therapeutic modalities and a review of long-term outcome of surgery and liver transplantation.

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Published October, 2007
By Feliciano Crovella, Giovanni Bartone and Landino Fei
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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Incisional hernia surgery has witnessed important advances over recent years, not only as far as the pathophysiological and etiopathogenetic aspects are concerned, but also from a technical point of view. Surgeons, surgical residents, and medical students will find the information in this volume very useful in their daily practice.

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