Bücher der Reihe Updates in Surgery

Cross-imaging enables detection of small pancreatic lesions that now prompt the majority of surgical procedures in asymptomatic patients. This volume is an expert guide to the latest evidence and knowledge of these uncommon tumors of the pancreas.

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.

Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease, whose symptoms are similar to other intestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis;

This book presents an overview of the different surgical techniques, from minimally invasive surgery to the most complicated and difficult operations in oncology. It also highlights the importance of evolution in surgical technologies.

The continuing development of various therapies to treat cancerous tumors has forced surgeons to reevaluate the role of radical surgery. This book explores how surgery, coupled with these therapies, can improve outcomes for patients with tumoral disease.

Surgery is the gold standard treatment of colorectal liver metastases. In the present book all aspects of surgical treatment of colorectal liver metastases are analyzed based on a systematic, updated analysis of the literature.

Pancreatic diseases are a crucial issue not only because of their epidemiological significance, and their anatomical and metabolic complexity, but also because of the different treatment options available and their implications for surgery.

The book analyzes all the aspects of staging and treatment, such as modern diagnostic and staging techniques (MRI or PET-CT), endoscopic treatment of early cancer, new minimally invasive and open surgical techniques, and combined treatment.