| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1 The Impact of Bowel Cancer Screening: Are We Going to Observe a Different Disease?- 2 Pathological Features of Sporadic Colonic Adenoma -- 3 Serrated Neoplasia Pathway -- 4 Genetic and Clinical Features of Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) and Attenuated FAP -- 5 Not Only FAP. Other Rare Polyposis Syndromes -- 6 Diet, Polyps, and Cancer: Where is the Truth? -- 7 Chemoprevention of Colonic Cancer. Is There a Foreseeable Future? -- 8 The Role of Imaging in Colonic Polyps and Polyposis -- 9 Rectal Polyps and Early Rectal Cancer. Assessment by Three-Dimensional -- Endorectal Ultrasonography -- 10 What is What? Clinical Vignettes of Multiple Polyps -- 11 Diagnosis and treatment of upper GI polyps in polyposis -- 12 Lower Gastrointestinal Endoscopy for Polyps and Polyposis -- 13 Management and Treatment of Complications in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Endoscopy -- 14 Follow-up After Endoscopic Polypectomy -- 15 Surgical Options for FAP -- 16 Restorative Proctocolectomy with Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis for Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. The Role of Laparoscopy- An Overview -- 17 Rectal Polyps after Ileorectal Anastomosis. What is the Future -- 18 Anorectal Polyps and Polypoid Lesions -- 19 Polypectomy of Anorectal Polyps and Polypoid Lesions. Why, When, and How?- 20 Quality of Life and FAP Patients -- 21 Psychological and Medico-legal Aspects of Genetic Counseling in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis -- 22 The Role of a Registry in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) -- 23 Coping With FAP. The Role of Patients' Associations. Subject Index |
| Summary |
We are dealing more frequently with the entity of large intestine polyps, as endoscopy and bowel cancer screening programmes are rapidly expanding. This handbook offers an integrated approach for physicians (doctors) who deal with these issues, by presenting discussion from genetics through treatment, to implications of genetic counseling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intestinal polyps.
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Intestinal Polyposis
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Intestinal Polyps
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MEDICAL -- Gastroenterology.
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Intestinal polyps.
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Intestinal Polyposis.
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Intestinal polyps
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Delaini, Gian Gaetano
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Skr̆ic̆ka, T. (Tomás̆)
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Colucci, G. (Gianluca)
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| ISBN |
9788847011243 |
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8847011248 |
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