Primary liver cancer: surveillance, diagnosis and treatment

Primary Liver Cancer: Surveillance, Diagnosis and Treatment focuses on the many therapies rapidly evolving to assist with controlling hepatocellular carcinoma as well as emerging technologies to assist in early diagnosis as well as prevention. All chapters are written by experts in their fields and include themost up to date information for diagnosis, treatment, surveillance, epidemiology, staging, recurrence and prevention. This volume will serve as a useful resource for clinical gastroenterologists, hepatologists, oncologists, pathologists, and physicians who treat patients with chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. INDICE: 01. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Etiology and Natural History TinsayA. Woreta and James P. Hamilton, 02. Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Reezwana Chowdhury and Rohit Satoskar 03. Radiologic Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Stephen Thomas and Aytekin Oto 04. Pathology of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Shriram Jakate and Deborah Giusto 05. Differential Diagnosis of Focal Hepatic Lesions Russell N. Wesson and Andrew M. Cameron 06. Paraneoplastic Syndromes Ayman Koteish 07. Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Children Christiane Sokollik, Abha Gupta, and Simon Ling 08. Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Chalermrat Bunchorntavakul, Maarouf Hoteit, and K. Rajender Reddy 09. LiverAnatomy and Function in the Planning of Hepatic Interventions Nicholas N. Nissen and Alagappan Annamalai 10. Treatment of HCC: Resection, Local-Regional Therapy, Systemic therapy and Liver Transplantation Nate Susnow, Talia Baker, and Laura Kulik 11. Recurrence: Prevention and Management Natasha Chandok and Paul Marotta 12. The Impact of Treating Chronic Liver Diseases on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Prevention Narayan Dharel and Daryl T.Y. Lau 13. Emerging Serum Biomarkers of HCC Anjana A. Pillai, and Claus J. Fimmel 14. Emerging therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Renumathy Dhanasekaran and Roniel Cabrera

• ISBN: 978-1-61779-862-7
• Editorial: Humana
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 29/07/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés