Evidence-based management of pancreatic malignancy
By: guest editor, Richard K. Orr
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 90, no. 2; Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 90, no. 2.
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781437718768
Subjects: Pancreas; Cancer; Surgery; Treatment; Diagnosis; Pancreatic Neoplasms
Notes: "April 2010."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Outcomes in pancreatic cancer surgery / Richard K. Orr; title: Evidence-based imaging of pancreatic malignancies / Timothy Kinney; title: The role of endoscopic ultraonography in the evaluation of pancreatic-biliary cancer / Shyam Varadarajulu and Mohamad A. Eloubeidi; title: The evidence for technical considerations in pancreatic resections for malignancy / Ronald F. Martin and Kashif A. Zuberi; title: Solid tumors of the body and tail of the pancreas / Katherine A. Morgan and David B. Adams; title: Portal vein resection / Kathleen K. Christian ... [et.al]; title: Adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy in curable pancreatic cancer / F.W. Nugent and Keith Stuart; title: Curative radiation therapy for pancreatic malignancies / Ellen W. Cooke and Lisa Hazard; title: Palliation in pancreatic cancer / E. James Kruse; title: Palliative chemotherapy for pancreatic malignancies / Sharmila P. Mehta; title: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm: a clinicopatholic review / Toms Augustin and Thomas J. VanderMeer; title: Diagnostic evaluation of pancreatic cystic malignancies / Grant Hutchins and Peter V. Draganov; title: Pancreatic cystic neoplasms / Jennifer E. Verbesey and J. Lawrence Munson; title: Laparoscopic management of pancreatic malignancies / David A. Kooby and Carrie K. Chu.