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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140010203321

Titolo

Gynecological cancer management [[electronic resource] ] : identification, diagnosis and treatment / / edited by Daniel Clarke-Pearson, John T. Soper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-4443-5637-2

1-282-30666-9

9786612306662

1-4443-0754-1

1-4443-0755-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Clarke-PearsonDaniel L

SoperJohn

Disciplina

616.9946

Soggetti

Generative organs, Female - Cancer

Generative organs, Female - Cancer - Treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Gynecological Cancer Management : Identification, diagnosis and treatment; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Vulvar Dystrophies; 2 Vulvar Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Cancer; 3 Vaginal Intraepithelial Neoplasia; 4 Cervical Neoplasia; 5 Endometrial Hyperplasia and Endometrial Cancer; 6 Unusual Neoplasms of the Uterus; 7 Management of Women at High Risk for Gynecologic Cancers; 8 Evaluation and Management of the Adenxal Mass; 9 Ovarian Tumors of Low Malignant Potential; 10 Early Epithelial Ovarian Cancer; 11 Ovarian Sex Cord-Stromal Tumors

12 Germ Cell Tumors of the Ovary13 Adenxal Masses in Pregnancy; 14 Gestational Trophoblastic Disease; Index; Colour plates can be found facing page 116

Sommario/riassunto

This concise and practical guide enables the gynecologist to differentiate between benign and malignant gynecologic conditions to determine the best management options for the patient. Over the past three decades, as the specialty of obstetrics and gynecology has



matured into a broad and diverse group of skills and disciplines, it has become apparent that there are diagnoses and conditions in gynecologic oncology where the obstetrician-gynecologist has a level of uncertainty, or lack of confidence in his ability or knowledge base to adequately manage the patient and therefore refers t