Liver metastases : biology, diagnosis, and treatment
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Liver metastases : biology, diagnosis, and treatment
Springer, c1998
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  Okayama
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
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  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A comprehensive overview of liver metastasis, providing a collection of contributions from an international faculty. A wide range of topics is presented, with each contributor focusing on his own area of expertise. Epidemiological and biological aspects are discussed, diagnostic and staging problems are reported, and all treatment modalities are analyzed, including gene therapy, immunotherapy and palliative care. The standard approaches to diagnosis and therapy are reported on and examined, whilst trends are reported on and explored.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Natural History of Metastases to the Liver
- The Biology of Liver Metastasis
- Staging and Prognostic Factors
- Diagnosis of Liver Metastasis
- Surgical Resection
- Laparoscopic Surgery and Liver Metastasis
- Liver Transplantation for Hepatic Metastases
- Cryotherapy and Other Ablative Procedures
- Systemic Therapy
- Regional Infusion Therapy
- Radiotherapy
- Gene Therapy for Primary and Metastatic Cancer to the Liver
- The Role of Nuclear Medicine in the Treatment of Liver Metastases
- Palliative Care
- Index.
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