pancreas revisited.
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary approach
By: Avram M. Cooperman and Ronald S. Chamberlain, guest editors.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 81, no. 3
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 746
Subjects: Pancreatic neoplasms -- Diagnosis.; Pancreatic neoplasms -- Therapy.; Pancreatic neoplasms -- Surgery.; Diagnostic imaging.
Other titles: Benign and malignant tumors
Notes: "June 2001."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Cystic tumors of the pancreas: the radiologist / Alec J. Megibow, Michael T. Lavelle, and Neil M. Rofsky; value: Cystic neoplasms of the pancreas: benign to malignant epithelial neoplams / Michael G. Sarr ... [et al.]; value: The surgical management of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors / Khawja Azimuddin and Ronadl S. Chamberlain; value: Islet cell tumors of the pancreas: the medical oncologist's perspective / Renier Brentjens and Leonard Saltz; value: Periampullary cancers: are there differences? / Juan M. Sarmiento ... [et al.]; value: Pancreatic cancer: the bigger picture / Avram M. Cooperman; value: Preoperative; value: cardiac assessment of the candidate for major resective pancreatic surgery / Michael A. Hanna, Michael Feld, and James E. Sampliner; value: Pancreaticoduodenal resection: pearls, perils, and pitfalls / Avram M. Cooperman; value: Personal observations, opinions, and approaches to cancer of the pancreas and the periampullary area / Michael Trede, Axel Richter, and Klaus Wendl; value: The Mayo Clinic approach to the surgical treatment of adenocarcinoma of the pancreas / Michael B. Farnell, David M. Nagorney, and Michael G. Sarr; value: Opinions and commentary on treating pancreatic cancer / Ronnie Tung-Ping Poon; value: and Sheung-Tat Fan; value: Postoperative care of the pancreatic surgical patient: the role of the intensivist / James E. Sampliner; value: The role of the infectious disease specialist in pancreatic surgery / Thomas J. Rush; value: Palliative strategies for locally advanced unresectable and metastatic pancreatic cancer / M. Molinari, W.S. Helton, and N. Joseph Espat; value: Adjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer: current treatment approaches and future challenges / Raquel Wagman and Alison Grann; value: Treatment of metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a comprehensive review / Peter Kozuch ... [et al.]; value: Therapy for regionally unresectable pancreatic cancer / Peter Kozuch ... [et al.]; value: Long-term follow-up of twenty patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas: resection following combined modality therapy / Avram M. Cooperman ... [et al.]; value: Commentary: preoperative chemoradiation therapy for pancreatic cancer / Douglas B. Evans and Peter W.T. Pisters; value: Innovative treatments for pancreatic cancer / Scott M. Lieberman, Heidi Hörig, and Howard L. Kaufman.