Blumgart's surgery of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Surgery of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas
• Uniform Title: Blumgart's surgery of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas.
• Further Information: Note: Editor-in-chief, William R. Jarnigan ; associate editors, Peter J. Allen, William C. Chapman, Michael I. D'Angelica, Ronald P. DeMatteo, Richard Kinh Gian Do, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey ; editor emeritus, Leslie H. Blumgart.
• Editors: (Surgeon), Jarnagin, William R; Blumgart, L. H
• Contents: Introduction. Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery : historical perspective -- Embryologic development of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas -- Surgical and radiologic anatomy of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas -- Assessment of hepatic function : implications for the surgical patient -- Pancreatic physiology and functional assessment -- Liver blood flow : physiology, measurement, and clinical relevance -- Liver regeneration : mechanisms and clinical relevance -- Liver fibrogenesis : mechanisms and clinical relevance -- Bile secretion and pathophysiology of biliary tract obstruction -- Advances in the molecular characterization of liver tumors -- Molecular pathology of pancreatic cancer and premalignant tumors -- Molecular pathogenesis of biliary tract cancer -- Molecular biology of liver carcinogenesis and hepatitis -- Liver immunology -- Cytokines in liver, biliary, and pancreatic disease -- Infections in hepatic, biliary, and pancreatic surgery -- Clinical investigation of hepatopancreatobiliary disease -- Emerging techniques in diagnostic imaging -- Ultrasound of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas -- Endoscopic ultrasound of the biliary tract and pancreas -- Role of nuclear medicine in diagnosis and management of hepatopancreatobiliary disease -- Computed tomography of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas -- Magnetic resonance imaging of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas -- Direct cholangiography : approaches, techniques, and current role -- Diagnostic angiography in hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease : indications -- Percutaneous biopsy -- Intraoperative diagnostic techniques -- Intraoperative and immediate postoperative management -- Perioperative critical care in hepatopancreatobiliary patients -- Preoperative and postoperative nutrition in hepatobiliary surgery -- Postoperative complications requiring intervention : diagnosis and management -- Quality of life and hepatobiliary tumors -- Interventional endoscopy : technical aspects -- Radiologic hepatobiliary interventions -- Bile duct exploration and biliary-enteric anastomosis -- Natural history of gallstones and asymptomatic gallstones -- Cholecystitis -- Percutaneous treatment of gallbladder disease -- Technique of cholecystectomy : open and minimally invasive -- Stones in the bile duct : clinical features and open surgical approaches and techniques -- Stones in the bile duct : minimally invasive surgical approaches -- Stones in the bile duct : endoscopic and percutaneous approaches -- Cholecystolithiasis and stones in the common bile duct : which approach and when? -- Postcholecystectomy problems -- Intrahepatic stones -- Extrahepatic biliary atresia -- Primary sclerosing cholangitis -- Biliary fistulae and strictures -- Cholangitis -- Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis -- Biliary parasitic disease -- Bile duct cysts in adults -- Tumors of the biliary tree : pathologic features -- Benign tumors and pseudotumors of the biliary tract -- Tumors of the gallbladder -- Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma -- Extrahepatic bile duct tumors -- Perihilar cholangiocarcinoma with emphasis on presurgical management -- Interventional techniques in hilar and intrahepatic biliary strictures -- Congenital disorders of the pancreas : surgical considerations -- Definition and classification of pancreatitis -- Etiology, pathogenesis, and diagnostic assessment of acute pancreatitis -- Management of acute pancreatitis and complications -- Etiology, pathogenesis, and diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis -- Management of chronic pancreatitis : conservative, endoscopic, and surgical -- Pancreatic and periampullary tumors : classification and pathologic features -- Cystic neoplasms of the pancreas : epidemiology, clinical features, assessment, and management -- Pancreatic cancer : epidemiology -- Pancreatic cancer : clinical aspects, assessment, and management -- Duodenal adenocarcinoma -- Pancreas as a site of metastatic cancer -- Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors : classification, clinical picture, diagnosis, and therapy -- Techniques of pancreatic resection : pancreaticoduodenectomy, distal pancreatectomy, segmental pancreatectomy, total pancreatectomy, and transduodenal resection of the papilla of vater -- Minimally invasive pancreatic resectional techniques -- Chemotherapy and radiotherapy for pancreatic cancer : adjuvant, neoadjuvant and palliative -- Palliative treatment of pancreatic and periampullary tumors -- Chronic hepatitis : epidemiology, clinical features, and management -- Hepatic steatosis, steatohepatitis, and chemotherapy-related liver injury -- Pyogenic liver abscess -- Amebiasis and other parasitic infections -- Hydatid disease of the liver -- Simple cysts and polycystic liver disease : clinical and radiographic features, surgical and nonsurgical management -- Cirrhosis and portal hypertension : pathologic aspects -- Nonhepatic surgery in the cirrhotic patient -- Portal hypertension in children -- Management of liver failure -- Support of the failing liver -- Management of ascites in cirrhosis and portal hypertension -- Medical management of bleeding varices : primary and secondary prophylaxis of bleeding -- Portal hypertensive bleeding : acute management -- Portal hypertensive bleeding : operative devascularization -- Portal hypertensive bleeding : the place of portosystemic shunting -- Technique of portosystemic shunting : portocaval, distal splenorenal, mesocaval -- Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting : indications and technique -- Budd-chiari syndrome and veno-occlusive disease -- Tumors of the liver : pathologic aspects -- Benign liver lesions -- Cystic hepatobiliary neoplasia -- Hepatocellular carcinoma -- Hepatic metastasis from colorectal cancer -- Hepatic metastasis from neuroendocrine cancers -- Noncolorectal nonneuroendocrine metastases -- Hepatic tumors in childhood -- Hepatic artery embolization and chemoembolization of liver tumors -- Radioembolization for liver tumors -- External beam radiotherapy for liver tumors -- Ablative treatment of liver tumors : overview -- Radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors -- Microwave ablation and irreversible electroporation -- Cryotherapy and ethanol injection -- Regional chemotherapy for liver tumors -- Systemic chemotherapy for hepatic colorectal cancer : impact on surgical management -- Advances in systemic therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma -- Isolated hepatic perfusion for extensive liver cancer -- Hepatic resection : general considerations -- Hepatic resection for benign disease and for liver and biliary tumors -- Standard and extended resections for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma -- Liver resection in cirrhosis -- Resection technique for live-donor transplantation -- Minimally invasive techniques in hepatic resection -- Vascular isolation techniques in hepatic resection -- Vascular reconstruction techniques -- Parenchymal preservation in hepatic resectional surgery : rationale and indications -- Segment-oriented anatomic liver resections -- Preoperative portal vein embolization : technique and results -- Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) -- Ex vivo and in situ hypothermic hepatic resection -- Adjuncts to hepatic resection : ultrasound and intraoperative navigation -- Liver and pancreas transplantation immunobiology -- Liver transplantation : indications and general considerations -- Liver transplantation : anesthesia, perioperative management, and postoperative care -- Liver transplantation in patients with fulminant hepatitis -- Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma -- Liver transplantation for nonhepatocellular malignant disease -- Orthotopic liver transplantation -- Living-donor liver transplantation : indications, outcomes, and surgical considerations -- Liver transplantation in children -- Techniques of liver replacement -- Early and late complications of liver transplantation -- Whole organ pancreas and pancreatic islet transplantation -- Injuries to the liver and biliary tract -- Pancreatic and duodenal injuries -- Aneurysm and arteriovenous fistula of the liver and pancreatic vasculature -- Hemobilia and bilhemia.
• Edition: 6th edition
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier
• Publication Date: ©2012.; 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxii, 1927 pages), illustrations (chiefly color)
• Subjects: 617.5/56; Liver -- Surgery; Biliary tract -- Surgery; Pancreas -- Surgery; Biliary tract -- Surgery; Liver -- Surgery; Pancreas -- Surgery; Liver -- surgery; Biliary Tract Surgical Procedures; Pancreas -- surgery; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323340625; 0323340628; 9780323340878; 0323340873
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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