Soft tissue sarcomas. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Guest editor, John M. Kane III.
• Other Names: III, Kane, John M
• Contents: Front Cover; Soft Tissue Sarcomas; Copyright Page; Contributors; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Prognostic Factorsand Staging for Soft Tissue Sarcomas: An Update; KEYWORDS; INCIDENCE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC BIOPSY; STS GRADING SYSTEMS; STS STAGING SYSTEMS; ADDITIONAL PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; THE FUTURE/CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Modern Surgical Therapy: Limb Salvage and the Roleof Amputation for Extremity Soft-Tissue Sarcomas; RISK FACTORS FOR RECURRENCE AND DEATH; LIMB-SALVAGE SURGERY; RECONSTRUCTION; RADIATION THERAPY. PREOPERATIVE VERSUS POSTOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPYBRACHYTHERAPY; ISOLATED LIMB PERFUSION; ISOLATED LIMB INFUSION; CHEMOTHERAPY; REGIONAL HYPERTHERMIA; AMPUTATION; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Radiation Therapy: Neoadjuvant, Adjuvant, or Not at All; OVERVIEW; EXTREMITY AND TRUNCAL STS; RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMAS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. AdjuvantChemotherapy fo Soft Tissue Sarcomas; ADJUVANT SYSTEMIC CHEMOTHERAPY FOR STS; NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY FOR STS; HISTOLOGY-SPECIFIC ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY TRIALS; THE CONTROVERSY AND SUMMARY; REFERENCES. Chapter 5. Margin Status, Local Recurrence, and Survival: Correlationor Causation?WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE STS RESECTION MARGIN?; PATHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF THE STS RESECTION MARGIN; MARGIN STATUS AND LR; POSITIVE MARGINS, LR, AND SURVIVAL; MANAGEMENT OF THE POSITIVE RESECTION MARGIN; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. Pulmonary Metastasectomy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma; IMAGING EVALUATION; FACTORS AFFECTING PATIENT SELECTION FOR PM; SURGICAL APPROACH TO PM; EXTENT OF RESECTION; RECURRENCE AND REPEATED PM; LONG-TERM SURVIVAL FOLLOWING PM; ADJUVANT THERAPY AFTER PM. NONSURGICAL ABLATIVE THERAPY FOR PULMONARY METASTASESSUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Isolated Regional Therapy for Advanced Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcomas; INDICATIONS FOR REGIONAL THERAPY; TECHNIQUE OF HILP; TECHNIQUE OF ILI; TOXICITY; OUTCOME AFTER HILP FOR EXTREMITY STS; OUTCOME AFTER ILI FOR EXTREMITY STS; LIMB PRESERVATION WITH HILP; LIMB PRESERVATION WITH ILI; PALLIATIVE ISOLATED REGIONAL THERAPY; LOCOREGIONAL RECURRENCE AFTER ISOLATED REGIONAL THERAPY; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Updates on the Management of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors; EPIDEMIOLOGY. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND DIAGNOSISPATHOLOGIC FINDINGS; TREATMENT; PEDIATRIC GIST; FAMILIAL GIST; FUTURE STRATEGIES; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 9. Improving Outcomes for Retroperitoneal Sarcomas: A Workin Progress; RPS CLINICAL OUTCOME MEASURES; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES FOR RPS OUTCOME; IMPROVING RPS OUTCOMES; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 10. Atypical LipomatousTumor/Well-Differentiated Liposarcoma: What Is It?; PATHOLOGIC CLASSIFICATION OF ADIPOCYTIC TUMORS; CLINICAL EVALUATION OF WDLPS; SURGICAL RESECTION; THE ROLE OF RADIATION THERAPY; RECURRENCE; SUMMARY; REFERENCES.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia : Saunders
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, [187]-366 pages), illustrations, portrait
• Subjects: 616.99474; Soft tissue tumors; Sarcoma; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer; MEDICAL -- Oncology; Sarcoma; Soft tissue tumors; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781455744411; 1455744417
• Related ISBNs: 9781455739417
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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