This book is an introduction for students and young doctors at the beginning of their career in diagnostic ultrasonography. It also presents the latest in innovations and techniques in gastrointestinal ultrasonography. The reader will find basic aspects of ultrasonography as well as highly advanced
Gastrointestinal Oncology: Basic and Clinical Aspects
β Scribed by Daniel S. Longnecker, George K. Michalopoulos (auth.), John S. MacDonald M.D. (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 375
- Series
- Cancer Treatment and Research 33
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Carcinogenesis in gastrointestinal organs....Pages 1-39
Nutritional factors in gastrointestinal cancer....Pages 41-73
Precursors for upper gastrointestinal cancer: the need for screening....Pages 75-91
Hereditary colon cancer syndromes: polyposis and nonpolyposis (Lynch syndromes I & II) variants....Pages 93-147
Screening and early diagnosis of colorectal cancer....Pages 149-166
Endoscopy in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal cancer....Pages 167-215
The detection and surgical management of recurrent colon and rectal cancers....Pages 217-233
Systemic and regional chemotherapy in advanced colorectal carcinoma....Pages 235-252
Anal canal and esophageal squamous cell carcinomas: the role of combined modality treatment....Pages 253-272
Adjuvant therapy of gastrointestinal cancer....Pages 273-295
Primary hepatobiliary carcinoma....Pages 297-317
Islet cell and carcinoid tumors of the gastrointestinal tract....Pages 319-334
Lymphomas of the gastrointestinal tract....Pages 335-359
Back Matter....Pages 361-373
β¦ Subjects
Oncology; Pathology
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