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Digestive System Malignancies

  • 1st Edition - February 16, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Constantine P. Spanos
  • Language: English

Digestive System Malignancies provides an up-to-date overview on the most relevant diagnostic techniques, staging of malignancies, and current therapeutic modalities for digest… Read more

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Description

Digestive System Malignancies provides an up-to-date overview on the most relevant diagnostic techniques, staging of malignancies, and current therapeutic modalities for digestive system malignancies. With coverage from esophageal, gastric and pancreatic cancers, to colon, anal and peritoneal surface, this reference offers a wide-ranging guide to malignancies throughout the digestive system. The use of engaging infographics provides an "at-a-glace" perspective on the subject, allowing users to retain a large amount of information without scrolling through large text or complex algorithms. This is an important reference for clinicians, surgeons, medical students and scientists that need a quick reference on digestive system malignancies.

Key features

  • Includes comprehensive coverage of all gastrointestinal malignancies
  • Provides in-depth coverage of mechanisms, helping users to quickly recognize the indications that are connected to specific medical conditions
  • Spans the epidemiology, diagnostic modalities, staging, classification systems and therapy of digestive system malignancies
  • Presents infographics with engaging visuals that allow users to retain a large amount of information without the need to scroll through large text or complex algorithms

Readership

Clinicians, surgeons, and medical students rotating in surgery that are interesting in digestive system malignancies & scientists that need a quick reference for research of digestive system malignancies

Table of contents

1. Esophageal Cancer

2. Gastric Cancer

3. Gastrointestinal Lymphoma

4. Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

5. Neuroendocrine Tumors

6. Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

7. Pancreatic Exocrine Tumors

8. Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms

9. Hepatocellular Carcinoma

10. Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma

11. Hilar and Distal Bile Duct Cancer

12. Gallbladder Cancer

13. Appendiceal neoplasms

14. Colon cancer

15. Rectal Cancer

16. Anal Cancer

17. Peritoneal Surface Malignancy

18. Inflammation, Infection and Digestive System Malignancies

19. The Immune System and Malignancies of the Digestive Tract

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 16, 2022
  • Language: English

About the author

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Constantine P. Spanos

Constantine P. Spanos is a Professor of Surgery at the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained his MD from the Aristotle University School of Medicine in 1992. After an internship year at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he trained in General Surgery at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He subsequently pursued fellowship training in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the American College of Thessaloniki. He is currently certified (and recertified) by both the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons as well as the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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