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By Isidoro Di Carlo

ISBN-10: 3319092928

ISBN-13: 9783319092928

ISBN-10: 3319092936

ISBN-13: 9783319092935

This ebook deals a whole evaluate on non colorectal non neuroendocrine (NCRNNE) liver metastases and describes intimately the at present on hand cures. each one bankruptcy specializes in the remedy of metastases from a selected fundamental malignancy and in addition presents beneficial details on occurrence, usual heritage and analysis. NCRNNE liver metastases are infrequent entities in comparison with colorectal and neuroendocrine metastases, for which the remedies are good codified. whereas extra courses have seemed at the subject in recent times, an in-depth examine has up to now been missing. moreover, such a lot released sequence are insufficiently similar as they include sufferers with NCRNNE hepatic metastases from a number of fundamental malignancies and therefore disregard variations in tumor habit, frequency of remoted hepatic metastases, reaction to neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment and period among prognosis of the first tumor and the liver metastases. This ebook, with its extra particular technique, will serve not just as an updated advisor to prognosis and remedy but additionally as a reference on which to base destiny studies.

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Lawes D, Chopada A, Gillams A et al (2006) Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as a cytoreductive strategy for hepatic metastasis from breast cancer. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 88:639–642 75. Covey AM, Sofocleous CT (2008) Radiofrequency ablation as a treatment strategy for liver metastases from breast cancer. Semin Interv Radiol 25:406–412 76. Mack MG, Straub R, Eichler K et al (2004) Breast cancer metastases in liver: laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy-local tumor control rate and survival data. Radiology 233:400–409 77.

Polycythemia. – Stauffer’s syndrome: it is a nonmetastatic hepatic dysfunction characterized by increased alkaline phosphatase, increased transaminases, prolonged prothrombin time (PT), and hepatosplenomegaly in the absence of liver metastases in patients with RCC. The pathophysiology of Stauffer’s syndrome is unclear. In most patients the syndrome resolves after nephrectomy and may recur with recurrence of the cancer suggesting involvement of a humoral substance [13]. Anyway in case of increased alkaline phosphatase, increased transaminases, and prolonged prothrombin time, the first step must be the exclusion of liver metastases.

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