Liver and Pancreatic Diseases Management

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey M. Farma, James F. Pingpank (auth.), Nagy A. Habib, Ruben Canelo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 146
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 574
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to present a unique compilation of lectures given by international speakers at the Hammersmith Hospital during the recent Meetings in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Transplantation.

New therapeutical approaches, advances in oncology and in diagnostic imaging, which reduce the need for invasive techniques and reach an improvement in survival and quality of life in cancer, are considered in this book. Modern literature has been reviewed with special reference to articles of general interest. In the clinical management of patients with liver, bile duct and pancreas diseases, it is important to assess the degree of disturbance and to diagnose the causative insult, and therefore clinical and laboratory methods of assessing each of these pathologies are of high interest.

This version is an up-to-date account of diseases of the liver, biliary tract and pancreas, including transplantation, which we trust will be of value for surgeons, physicians and pathologists and also a reference book for medical students.

✦ Table of Contents

Isolated Hepatic Perfusion: Treating Unresectable Liver Metastases....Pages 1-16
Management of Common Bile Duct Stones in the Era of Laparoscopic Surgery....Pages 17-22
Split-Liver Transplantation....Pages 23-28
Surgery and Chemotherapy Combined for Colorectal Liver Metastases....Pages 29-30
Radio Frequency Assisted Liver Resection: The Habib’s Technique....Pages 31-37
Radio Frequency-Assisted Liver Resection: Experience of Italian Hepatic Surgery Unit....Pages 39-41
Hepatic Surgery for Metastatic Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors....Pages 43-56
Electrodes and Multiple Electrode Systems for Radio Frequency Ablation: A Proposal for Updated Terminology....Pages 57-73
Minimal Blood Loss Radio Frequency Assisted Liver Resection Technique....Pages 75-88
Islet Cell Allotransplantation: Development of a Clinical Programme in West London....Pages 89-93
Whole Organ Pancreas Transplantation....Pages 95-105
Pancreatic Cancer—Are There New Treatment Options?....Pages 107-110
Current Practice in Pancreatic Surgery....Pages 111-143

✦ Subjects

Biomedicine general; Medicine/Public Health, general; Hepatology; Oncology; Gastroenterology; Transplant Surgery