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Main description:
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. It also provides surgical techniques and principles for curative and palliative surgery. This book will appeal to physicians and hepatobiliary surgeons who want to improve their knowledge about surgical management of intrahepatic and hilar cholangiocarcinomas.
Contents:
Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma.- Reporting Cholangiocarcinoma: Pathological Aspects.- Diagnosis.- Preoperative Staging.- The Role of Laparoscopy in Preoperative Staging.- Preoperative Assessment of Liver Function.- Preoperative Biliary Drainage.- Preoperative Portal Vein Embolization.- Prognostic Factors.- Staging Systems.- Surgical Anatomy of the Hepatic Hilus.- Surgical Treatment.- Surgical Technique.- Results of Surgery.- The Role of Liver Transplantation.- Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Therapies.- Palliative Treatments.- Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma.- Diagnosis.- Prognostic Factors.- Staging Systems.- Surgical Treatment.- Results of Surgery.- The Role of Liver Transplantation.- Adjuvant and Palliative Treatments.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Publication date: October, 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 399g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal/colorectal, General, Hepatology
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