Full Description
Early Neoplasias of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Endoscopic Diagnosis and Therapeutic Decisions is an update of the current standards and newest skills in diagnostic endoscopy for neoplastic lesions of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. The volume defines strategies for detection and endoscopic assessment of small and minute early cancers and precursor lesions, including the endoscopic and endosonographic criteria for submucosal invasiveness. The book provides the knowledge in novel magnifying endoscopic analysis of early neoplasias fundamental to differential indication on snare mucosectomy, endoscopic submucosal dissection, or surgical/laparoscopic full-wall resection. Differential indications and contraindications for each technique are also specified.
Comprehensive and authored by internationally renowned experts in the field, Early Neoplasias of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Endoscopic Diagnosis and Therapeutic Decisions is a valuable resource that will improve the diagnostic skills of beginners as well as experienced endoscopists in endoscopic submucosal dissection.
Contents
Endoscopic Screening and Surveillance - Indications and Standards.- Histopathology of Early Mucosal Neoplasias - Morphologic Carcinogenesis in the GI Tract.- Principles of Endoscopic Resection - Diagnostic and Curative Resection of Mucosal Neoplasias.- Endoscopic Detection and Analysis of Mucosal Neoplastic Lesions - Enhanced Imaging and Tumor Morphology.- High-resolution Endoscopic Ultrasound - Clinical T-staging of Mucosal Neoplasms.- Squamous Cell-lined Esophagus and Hypopharynx - Mucosal Neoplasias.- Columnar Epithelium-lined (Barrett's) Esophagus - Mucosal Neoplasias.- Stomach - Mucosal Neoplasias.- Duodenum and Small Bowel - Mucosal Neoplasias.- Colorectum - Mucosal Neoplasias.- Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Remission - Mucosal Neoplasias.
