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UNINA9910455378703321 |
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Titolo |
Biliary tract and gallbladder cancer [[electronic resource] ] : diagnosis and therapy / / edited by Charles R. Thomas, Jr., Clifton David Fuller |
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New York, : Demos Medical, c2009 |
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1-282-18946-8 |
1-935281-23-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ThomasCharles R. <1957-> |
FullerClifton David |
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Soggetti |
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Biliary tract - Cancer |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Epidemiology of gallbladder and biliary tract neoplasms / Clifton David Fuller and Andrew K. Diehl -- Role of growth factor signaling pathways / Kaoru Kiguchi and John DiGiovanni -- Histopathology and molecular pathogenesis of gallbladder cancer / Iván Roa Esterio, Xabier de Aretxabala, and Ignacio I. Wistuba -- Histopathology and molecular pathogenesis of biliary tract cancer / Shahid A. Khan ... [et al.] -- Novel biomarkers for biliary tract cancer / Ross C. Smith -- Pathological staging of gallbladder and biliary tract cancer / Chen Liu and James M. Crawford -- Overview of current diagnostic imaging strategies / Heljä Oikarinen -- Imaging of hepatic transplantation for biliary tract cancer / Sridhar Shankar, Sathish Kumar Dundmadappa, and Shimul Shah -- Magnetic resonance imaging / Alessandro Guarise and Giovanni Morana -- Functional imaging / Antonio Rodríguez-Fernández, Manuel Gómez-Río, and José Manuel Llamas-Elvira -- Computed tomography / Leonardo Marcal, Chitra Viswanathan, and Janio Szklaruk -- Radiofrequency ablation / Ronald S. Arellano -- Chemoembolization / Kenneth J. Kolbeck and John Kaufman -- Surgical management of intrahepatic biliary tract cancer / Richard R. Smith and John F. Gibbs -- Surgical management of extrahepatic biliary tract cancer / Swee H. Teh and Susan L. Orloff -- Surgical management of gallbladder cancer / Rebecca J. McClaine, Syed A. Ahmad, and Andrew M. Lowy -- Systemic |
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therapy for biliary tract cancer / Bassel F. El-Rayes and Philip A. Philip -- Radiation therapy / Brian G. Czito and Clifton David Fuller -- 3D-conformal and intensity-modulated radiation therapy / Joshua D. Lawson and Jerome C. Landry -- Brachytherapy / Subir Nag, Kevin Forsythe, and Andrew Kennedy -- Image-guided radiation therapy and stereotactic body radiation therapy / Laura A. Dawson and Martin Fuss -- Symptom management and palliation / Eduardo da Silveira, Douglas O. Faigel, and M. Brian Fennerty -- Future directions / Clifton David Fuller and Charles R. Thomas, Jr. |
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""Biliary Tract and Gallbladder Cancer: Diagnosis and Therapy is a comprehensive and definitive discussion of all aspects of the treatment of malignant tumors of the gallbladder and biliary tract. This is the first book to examine these cancers in such depth, as rapid advances in surgical oncology and radiotherapeutic approaches have demanded the full coverage this text provides.The book progresses logically, with early chapters presenting the epidemiologic, pathologic, and pathogenetic characteristics of BT and GB lesions, followed by excellent discussions of clinical and radiologic diagnosis |
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UNINA9910141258103321 |
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Ethical problems in emergency medicine [[electronic resource] ] : a discussion-based review / / John Jesus, ... [et al.] |
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Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2012 |
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1-280-77561-0 |
9786613686008 |
1-118-29212-X |
1-118-29215-4 |
1-118-29213-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (347 p.) |
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Collana |
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Current topics in emergency medicine |
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Disciplina |
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Emergency medicine - Moral and ethical aspects |
Medical ethics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Ethical Problems in Emergency Medicine; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Section One: Challenging professionalism; 1: Physician care of family, friends, or colleagues; 2: The impaired physician; 3: Disclosure of medical error and truth telling; 4: Conflicts between patient requests and physician obligations; 5: Judgmental attitudes and opinions in the emergency department; 6: Using physicians as agents of the state; Section Two: End-of-life decisions; 7: Family-witnessed resuscitation in the emergency department: making sense of ethical and practical considerations in an emotional debate |
8: Palliative care in the emergency department9: Refusal of life-saving therapy; 10: Revisiting comfort-directed therapies: death and dying in the emergency department, including withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment; 11: Futility in emergency medicine; Section Three: Representing vulnerable populations; 12: The care of minors in the emergency department; 13: Chemical restraints, physical restraints, and other demonstrations of force; 14: Capacity determination in the patient with altered mental status; 15: Obstetric emergency: perimortem cesarean section |
Section Four: Outside influence and observation16: Non-medical observers in the emergency department; 17: Religious perspectives on do-notresuscitate (DNR) documents and the dying patient; 18: Non-physician influence on the scope and responsibilities of emergency physicians; 19: Privacy and confidentiality: particular challenges in the emergency department; Section Five: Emergency medicine outside the emergency department; 20: Short-term international medical initiatives; 21: Disaster triage; 22: The emergency physician as a bystander outside the hospital |
23: Military objectives versus patient interestsSection Six: Public health as emergency medicine; 24: Treatment of potential organ donors; 25: Mandatory and permissive reporting laws: conflicts in patient confidentiality, autonomy, and the duty to report; 26: Ethics of care during a pandemic; Section Seven: Education and research; 27: Practicing medical procedures on the newly or nearly dead; 28: Ethics of research without informed consent; Appendix: useful resources; Index |
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This book is designed to consolidate the relevant literature as well as the thoughts of professionals currently working in the field into a practical and accessible reference for the emergency medical technician, student, nurse, resident, and attending emergency physician. Each chapter is divided into four sections: case presentation, discussion, review of the current literature, and recommendations. Designed to serve simultaneously as a learning and reference tool, each chapter begins with a real case that was encountered in an ED setting. The case presentation is followed by a short discussi |
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