عنوان

Colorectal Cancer

(Number (ISBN

9400991584

(Number (ISBN

9789400991583

Number

b558382

Title Proper

Colorectal Cancer

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by K. Welvaart, L.H. Blumgart, J. Kreuning.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1980

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(308 pages)

Series Title

Boerhaave Series for Postgraduate Medical Education, Proceedings of Boerhaave Courses Organized by The Faculty of Medicine, University of Leiden The Netherlands, 18.

Text of Note

I. General Aspects --;1. Epidemiology of colorectal cancer --;2. Bacterial factors in the aetiology of large bowel cancer --;3. Clinical diagnosis of colorectal cancer --;4. Prognostic factors in staging of colorectal cancer --;5. Cytology of colorectal carcinoma --;6. Pathological aspects of colorectal carcinoma --;II. Diagnostic Procedures --;7. Screening with occult blood testing --;8. Mass screening --;9. Colonoscopy as a screening procedure? --;III. Individuals at Risk --;10. Dietary, environmental, and hereditary factors in the development of colorectal cancer --;11. The pathology of polyps of the large bowel --;12. Polyposis coli --;IV. Adenomas of the Colon --;13. Clinical significance of a polyp --;14. The clinical significance of a villous adenoma --;15. Endoscopic polypectomy --;16. Surgery of colonic polyps --;V. Treatment --;17. Radiotherapy of inoperable or recurrent cancer of the rectum and rectosigmoid --;18. Pre- or postoperative radiation in resectable tumors --;19. Cryotherapy in rectal carcinoma --;20. Electrofulguration for rectal cancer --;21. The extent of the resection --;22. Cancer of the colon --;23. The current status of the pull-through procedure for rectal cancer --;24. The transsphincteric approach --;25. Surgical treatment of liver metastases from colorectal cancer --;26. Magnetic colostomy --;27. Colostomy care --;VI. Postoperative Management --;28. Chemotherapy in metastatic disease --;29. The management of pain in colorectal cancer --;30. Follow-up: frequency and methods.

Text of Note

Perhaps the most outstanding new areas discussed and reflected in the proceedings are the possible range and scope of screening techniques, the new possibilities both in treatment and in endoscopic surgery now available as a result of developments in fibre-optic endoscopy, and new approaches and important parameters in staging of the disease.

Cancer -- Surgery.

Medicine.

Oncology.

edited by K. Welvaart, L.H. Blumgart, J. Kreuning.

J Kreuning

K Welvaart

L H Blumgart

Electronic name

[Book]

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