Pancreatology A Clinical Casebook /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gardner, Timothy B. (Editor), Smith, Kerrington D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Hepatology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This clinical casebook provides a comprehensive yet concise state-of-the-art review of pancreatic disease. Presented in a case-based format, each case focuses on a different varient of pancreatic disease and pancreatic cancer, with sections on diagnosis and early detection, management of the disease...

Table of Contents:

• Risk Factors for Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
• Hereditary Pancreatitis
• Hospital Management of Acute Pancreatitis
• Acute Biliary Pancreatitis
• Classification and Management of Pancreatic Cysts
• Medical and Endoscopic Management of Chronic Pancreatitis
• Complications of Acute Pancreatitis
• Endoscopic Therapy for Complications of Acute Pancreatitis
• Autoimmune Pancreatitis
• Diagnosis of and Screening for Pancreatic Malignancy
• Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer
• Optimizing Nutrition for the Patient after Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Pancreatic Insufficiency
• Palliative Care and Pancreatic Disease
• Staging Diagnostic Laparoscopy for Localized Pancreatic Cancer
• Neoadjuvant Multimodality Therapy for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Head Cancer
• Drainage and Resection Surgery for Pancreatitis
• Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplant. .