Published June, 2012
By M. A. Hayat and M.A. Hayat
Publisher: Springer
Series: Pediatric Cancer
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Brain tumors are the most common solid tumor of childhood as well as the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in children.

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Published June, 2012
By Seigo Kitano, Hang-Kwang Yang and Han-Kwang Yang
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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The first laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy for gastric cancer was performed in Japan in 1991.

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Published May, 2012
By Rudolf Schiessel and Peter Metzger
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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The work describes a new method of sphincter salvage in surgery of rectal cancer. Low tumors of the rectum are traditionally treated with amputation of the rectum. By contrast, intersphincteric resection allows sphincter salvage even in low tumors and is now widely accepted among experts in the field of colorectal surgery.

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Published May, 2012
By Antonio Mussa
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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This book presents an overview of the different surgical techniques, from minimally invasive surgery to the most complicated and difficult operations in oncology. It also highlights the importance of evolution in surgical technologies.

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Published April, 2012
By Walter Siquini
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Updates in Surgery
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Pancreatic diseases are a crucial issue not only because of their epidemiological significance, and their anatomical and metabolic complexity, but also because of the different treatment options available and their implications for surgery.

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Published April, 2012
By J. Victor Reyniak and Niels H. Lauersen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Published March, 2012
By M. A. Hayat and M.A. Hayat
Publisher: Springer
Series: Pediatric Cancer
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A general introduction to the principles of diagnosis and treatment of children with brain tumors is presented. Also are detailed results of clinical trials in pediatric brain tumors, such as medulloblastoma, ependymoma, craniopharyngioma, low-grade glioma, high-grade glioma, brainstem glioma, and germ cell tumors, using radiotherapy.

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Published March, 2012
By John M. Kane III and John M. Kane
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Surgery
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Deals with the topic of Sarcomas. This title includes such articles as: Prognostic Factors and Staging for Soft Tissue Sarcomas; Margin Status and Local Recurrence: Correlation or Causation; Systemic Chemotherapy in the Adjuvant and Clinical Metastatic Setting; Pulmonary Metastasectomy; and, Regional Therapy for Advanced Extremity Sarcomas.

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Published March, 2012
By M. A. Hayat
Publisher: Springer
Series: Methods of Cancer Diagnosis, Therapy and Prognosis
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There are more than 100 types of cancers In Part II, head and neck cancer is d- affecting all parts of the human body. 6 million peo- lar cancer, tongue cancer, nasopharyngeal ple died of cancer, that is, 13% of the 58 carcinoma, and retinoblastoma, which are million deaths worldwide.

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Published February, 2012
By Aldo Fortuna
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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It is common knowledge that a clinical diagnosis is based on a combination of symptoms and signs, observed in their evolution. Advancing the diagnosis at an early stage and particularly in the neurosurgical clinical examination would enhance the slightest possibility of recovery, theoretically almost transforming it into a concrete possibility.

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