Overview
- Up-to-date review of diagnostic and staging tools of cholangiocarcinoma and a guide to optimal selection of therapeutic modalities
- Provides details of surgical techniques and principles for curative and palliative surgery
- Appeal to physicians and hepatobiliary surgeons who want to improve their knowledge of the surgical management of intrahepatic and hilar cholangiocarcinomas
Part of the book series: Updates in Surgery (UPDATESSURG)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma
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About this book
Cholangiocarcinoma is the second most frequent primary neoplasm of the liver and its incidence is increasing in Western countries. These neoplasms arise from the biliary tract and can be categorized according to their anatomical location as intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas. The prognosis of these neoplasms is poor and most patients are not suitable for curative resection at the time of diagnosis ,due to advanced stage of tumor. Complete surgical resection still remains the only effective and potentially curative therapy. Both intrahepatic and hilar cholangiocarcinoma often requires major liver resection to obtain a radical treatment. In recent years the improvements in non- invasive diagnostic imaging modalities, a better understanding of liver anatomy, the improvements of preoperative optimisation of liver function (preoperative biliary drainage, portal vein embolization), the increased safety of liver surgery have gradually improved the outcome. Moreover, aggressive surgical approach could increase curative surgery. Still now the role of adjunvant therapies and liver transplantation are not well clarified.
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. Moreover, it provides details of 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surgical Treatment of Hilar and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
Authors: Alfredo Guglielmi, Andrea Ruzzenente, Calogero Iacono
Series Title: Updates in Surgery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0729-1
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Milan 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-0728-4Published: 29 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-0729-1Published: 21 November 2007
Series ISSN: 2280-9848
Series E-ISSN: 2281-0854
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 241
Topics: Surgery, Abdominal Surgery, Hepatology, Gastroenterology