Is There Any Role for the Laparoscopic Staging of Urologic Malignancies?
Preoperative or intraoperative staging is often necessary in urologic malignancies to plan further treatment modalities. Various imaging techniques are used, but results are often unsatisfactory. New minimally invasive approaches like laparoscopy may chan
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Staging laparos(opy
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P. HOHENBERGER • K. CONLON (Eds.)
Stagi g Laparoscopy With 47 Figures, 18 in Color
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Prof. Dr. PETER HOHENBERGER Humboldt University Division of Surgery and Surgical Oncology Charite, Robert-Roessle Hospital Lindenberger Weg 80 13222 Berlin, Germany KEVIN CONLON, MD, MBA, FACS Gastric & Mixed Tumor Service Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 1275 York Avenue New York, NY 10021, USA
ISBN 978-3-642-56290-7 (eBook) ISBN 978-3-642-63000-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-56290-7
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For Ralph
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Preface
The modern achievement of minimally invasive surgery has focussed primarily on the treatment of benign disease. Consequently, cholecystectomy, hernia repair, and fundoplication represent the overwhelming majority of laparoscopic procedures. Historically, however, the "keyhole" access to the abdominal cavity was intended to assess tumor spread or liver pathology. Creating a pneumoperitoneum has enabled surgeons to explore thoroughly specific areas of the abdomen such as the lesser sac, the subdiaphragmatic liver surface, or the lymph nodes at the celiac axis. As a logical consequence, operative laparoscopy for purposes of staging malignancies related to the abdominal cavity has gained more and more attention. This book, which represents a joint effort, intends to summarize the rationale, operativ
