Difficult Decisions in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery An Evide
This book presents all the current evidence in assessing and making decisions for patients. The multi-disciplinary team of authors pool their knowledge to bring the most up-to-date information regarding the underlying diseases, diagnostics and non operati
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J. Michael Millis Jeffrey B. Matthews Editors
Difficult Decisions in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery An Evidence-Based Approach
Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An EvidenceBased Approach Series Editor Mark K. Ferguson
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13361
J. Michael Millis • Jeffrey B. Matthews Editors
Difficult Decisions in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery An Evidence-Based Approach
Editors J. Michael Millis The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jeffrey B. Matthews The University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA
ISSN 2198-7750 ISSN 2198-7769 (electronic) Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach ISBN 978-3-319-27363-1 ISBN 978-3-319-27365-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27365-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016938792 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Preface
We are excited to present to the hepatobiliary and pancreatic multidisciplinary community a new format in assessing and making decisions for our patients. This volume expands on the successful editions of Difficult Decisions in Thoracic Surgery. The success of those editions has stimulated the University of Chicago surgical faculty to develop a series of Difficult Decisions in XXX Surgery. The Difficult Decisions in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery volume is the first of several to be published over the next several years. Given that many difficult decisions in this field required multidisciplinary input, we have asked a number of leaders from interventional radiology, intervention endoscopy, gastroenterology/hepatology, and diagnostic radiology to provide and analyze the strength of the data regarding the underlying diseases, diagnostics, and the nonoperative therapy. The format of this book follows it
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