Management of soft tissue sarcoma
By: Murray F. Brennan, Cristina R. Antonescu, Robert G. Maki
Contributors: Antonescu, Cristina R., author; Maki, Robert G., author
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781461450030; 9781481450047
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Soft tissue tumors; Treatment; Sarcoma
Description: Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma addresses the diagnosis and best current management of adult soft tissue sarcomas. Edited by world renonwed experts, this book dileneates and discusses each different sarcoma subtype individually --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.General Description; title: Introduction; title: Incidence and Prevalence; title: Predisposing and Genetic Factors; title: References; title: 2.Natural History: Importance of Size, Site, and Histopathology; title: Natural History; title: Influence of Site; title: Staging; title: Staging of Retroperitoneal Visceral Sarcoma; title: Prognostic Factors for Extremity and Superficial Soft Tissue Sarcoma; title: Disease-Specific Survival; title: Prognostic Factors for Survival Following Local Recurrence of Extremity Sarcoma; title: Prognostic Factors: Nomograms; title: References; title: 3.General Statement as to Efficacy of Surgery/Chemotherapy/Radiation Therapy; title: Extent of Primary Surgery; title: Surgical Treatment of Local Recurrence; title: Diagnostic Imaging; title: Surgery for Metastatic Disease; title: Pulmonary Metastasis; title: Radiation Therapy; title: Adjuvant Radiation Therapy; title: Dose of Radiation Therapy; title: Adjuvant Brachytherapy; title: Radiation Therapy in the Presence of Positive Microscopic Margins; title: Definitive Radiation Therapy; title: Contents note continued: Radiation to Patients with Neurovascular Involvement; title: Wound Complications of Radiation Therapy; title: Sarcomas More Common in Adults; title: Larger Randomized Studies; title: Selected Meta-analyses of Randomized Trials of Adjuvant Chemotherapy; title: Adjuvant Therapy for GIST; title: Sarcomas More Common in the Pediatric Setting; title: Special Techniques for Primary and Locally Recurrent Disease; title: Intra-arterial Chemotherapy; title: Limb Perfusion and Hyperthermia; title: References; title: pt. I Management by Histopathology: Introduction; title: 4.Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs); title: Imaging; title: Familial GIST; title: Natural History; title: Diagnosis, Molecular Pathology; title: Treatment; title: Adjuvant Imatinib for Primary GIST; title: Neoadjuvant Therapy for Primary Disease Not Amenable to Surgery; title: Treatment of Recurrence; title: Systemic Targeted Therapy for Metastatic GIST; title: Dose Intensity over Time; title: Imatinib Pharmacokinetics; title: Second-Line Sunitinib for Imatinib-Resistant Metastatic GIST; title: Contents note continued: Other Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Metastatic GIST Failing Imatinib and Sunitinib; title: Newer Agents; title: References; title: 5.Liposarcoma; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis; title: Treatment; title: Radiation Therapy; title: Systemic Therapy: General Considerations; title: Adjuvant Therapy; title: Treatment of Metastatic Disease; title: Outcomes; title: Outcome Following Metastasis; title: References; title: 6.Leiomyosarcoma; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis, Molecular Pathology; title: Treatment; title: Radiation Therapy; title: Systemic Therapy; title: Adjuvant Chemotherapy; title: Treatment of Recurrence; title: Metastatic Disease; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 7.Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma (UPS; Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma: MFH) and Myxofibrosarcoma; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis/Molecular Pathology; title: Natural History; title: Treatment; title: Radiation Therapy; title: Metastatic Disease; title: Adjuvant Chemotherapy; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 8.Synovial Sarcoma; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis, Molecular Pathology; title: Treatment; title: Radiation Therapy; title: Chemotherapy; title: Contents note continued: Treatment of Recurrence; title: Local Recurrence; title: Systemic Treatment; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 9.Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor (MPNST) and Triton Tumor; title: Presentation; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis/Pathology; title: Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Outcome; title: Treatment; title: Radiation Therapy; title: Chemotherapy; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 10.Desmoid Tumor/Deep-Seated Fibromatosis (Desmoid-Type Fibromatosis); title: Clinical Presentation; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis: Molecular; title: Natural History; title: Treatment; title: Treatment of Recurrence; title: Systemic Therapy; title: Treatment by Observation; title: Radiation Therapy; title: Patterns of Failure; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 11.Solitary Fibrous Tumor/Hemangiopericytoma; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 12.Fibrosarcoma and Its Variants; title: Outcome; title: Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans; title: Outcome; title: Low-Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma (Evans' Tumor); title: Outcome; title: Sclerosing Epithelioid Fibrosarcoma; title: Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor; title: Infantile Fibrosarcoma; title: Contents note continued: Myxoinflammatory Fibroblastic Sarcoma/Inflammatory Myxohyaline Tumor of Distal Extremities; title: Adult-Type Fibrosarcoma; title: References; title: 13.Vascular Sarcomas; title: Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma; title: Angiosarcoma/Lymphangiosarcoma; title: Outcome; title: Kaposi Sarcoma; title: References; title: 14.Epithelioid Sarcoma; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 15.Sarcomas More Common in Children; title: Soft Tissue Sarcomas More Commonly Observed in Pediatric Patients; title: Ewing Sarcoma Family of Tumors (EFT); title: Demographics; title: Primary Therapy; title: Adjuvant Chemotherapy; title: High-Dose Systemic Therapy for Metastatic Disease; title: Standard Cytotoxic Chemotherapy After Disease Relapse; title: Investigational Approaches; title: Ewing Sarcoma-Like Small Round Cell Tumors; title: Rhabdomyosarcoma; title: Demographics; title: Molecular Biology; title: Risk Stratification; title: Staging; title: Imaging; title: Primary Therapy; title: Chemotherapy for Metastatic Disease; title: Embryonal Sarcoma; title: Calcifying Nested Stromal and Epithelial Tumor; title: References; title: Contents note continued: 16.Radiation-Induced Sarcomas; title: References; title: 17.Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis/Molecular Pathology; title: Primary Treatment; title: Treatment of Metastatic Disease; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 18.Clear Cell Sarcoma/Melanoma of Soft Parts; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis: Molecular Pathology; title: Treatment; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 19.Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis; title: Treatment; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 20.Extraskeletal Myxoid Chondrosarcoma; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis; title: Treatment; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 21.Other Uterine Sarcomas; title: Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma; title: Diagnosis; title: Treatment; title: Outcome; title: Undifferentiated Endometrial Sarcoma; title: Outcome; title: Uterine Carcinosarcomas and Other Malignant Mixed Mullerian Tumors; title: PEComas; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 22.Extraskeletal Osteogenic Sarcoma; title: Imaging; title: Diagnosis; title: Treatment; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 23.Sustentacular Tumors of Lymph Tissue; title: Contents note continued: Follicular Dendritic Cell Tumor (Dendritic Reticulum Cell Tumor [FDCT]) and Interdigitating Reticulum Cell Tumor (IDRCT); title: True Histiocytic Sarcoma; title: Langerhans Cell Tumors; title: Outcome; title: References; title: 24.Uncommon/Unique Sites; title: Heart and Great Vessels; title: Primary Sarcomas of the Breast; title: Phyllodes Tumor; title: Diagnosis; title: Outcome; title: Head and Neck; title: Treatment; title: Primary Sarcomas of the Mediastinum; title: Liver; title: References; title: pt. II Benign and Less Aggressive Lesions: Introduction; title: 25.Mostly Benign/Rarely Metastasizing Soft Tissue Tumor; title: Ossifying Fibromyxoid Tumor; title: Perivascular Epithelioid Cell Tumor (PEComa) and Related Entities: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, Angiomyolipoma, and Sugar Cell Tumor; title: Therapy; title: Giant Cell Tumor of Tendon Sheath/Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis; title: Myoepithelioma of Soft Tissue; title: Glomus Tumor; title: References; title: 26.Benign Soft Tissue Tumors; title: Lipoma; title: Lipomatosis; title: Lipoblastoma/Lipoblastomatosis; title: Angiolipoma; title: Contents note continued: Angiomyolipoma; title: Angiomyelolipoma; title: Hibernoma; title: Elastofibroma; title: Granular Cell Tumor; title: Hemangioma; title: Leiomyoma; title: Schwannoma; title: Neurofibroma; title: Myxoma; title: Angiomyxoma; title: References; title: 27.Reactive Lesions; title: Myositis Ossificans; title: Nodular Fasciitis; title: Sarcoma Masquerade; title: References.