Multidisciplinary Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Vauthey, Jean-Nicolas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Brouquet, Antoine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 190
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Internal medicine.; Hepatology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.; Internal Medicine.

It is now widely accepted that multidisciplinary collaboration and multimodality treatment approaches are important in improving the survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. In this comprehensive textbook, internationally renowned experts in the field present and discuss the various strat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Hepatocellular carcinoma (HC) biology
• Histopathology of HC
• Imaging of HC
• Methods to improve resectability of HC
• Surgical resection for small HC in cirrhosis: the Eastern experience
• Surgical resection for HC in non-cirrhoric liver: the Western experience
• Fibrolamellar HC
• Laparoscopic resection of HC
• Transplantation for HC: the European experience
• Transplantation for HC: the North American experience
• Living donor transplantation for HC
• Radiofrequency ablation for HC
• Transarterial chemoembolization of HC
• Yttrium 90 microspheres in the treatment of HC
• Targeted agents and systemic therapy for HC
• Multidisciplinary team and selection of appropriate treatment options for HC.