1st Edition

Endosurgery for Cancer

By Steve Eubanks Copyright 1999
    247 Pages 89 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    This handbook provides surgeons with updated information about the current status, perspectives and controversies for staging and treating cancer through minimal access procedures. The authors discuss the biology of minimal access, techniques, the equipment used, the perspectives and controversies surrounding the procedures in cancer management.

    1. Surgical Oncology: Role of Videolaparoscopy 2. Physiologic Alterations Associated with Laparoscopy 3. Laparoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment of Ascites and Peritoneal Malignancies 4. Lymphoma Staging: Basic Features 5. Laparoscopic Management of Lymphomas 6. Videolaparoscopy and Pancreatic Cancer 7. Laparoscopic Assessment of Tumors of the Pancreatic Head 8. Laparoscopy in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hepatobiliary Malignancies 9. Laparoscopic Treatment of Colorectal Malignancies 10. Laparoscopy and Gastric Cancer: Perspective and Controversies 11. Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Gastrectomy 12. Laparoscopic Adrenal Surgery 13. Videolaparoscopy in Kidney Tumors 14. Laparoscopic Surgery in Kidney Cancer 15. Endosurgery and Pediatric Oncology 16. Complications of Videolaparoscopy 17. Role of Laparoscopic Ultrasound in Minimal Access Surgery: Overview18. Biology of Videothoracoscopy 19. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Lung Cancer 20. VATS in Malignant Pleural Disease 21. Laparoscopic Approach to Esophageal Cancer 23. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Malignant Pericardial Effusion 24. Complications in Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy

    Biography

    Eubanks, Steve