Published October, 2012
By Howard Reber
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Rating:
Availability: Available

A distinguished panel of world authorities reviews the current state of today's understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of pancreatic cancer.

---

Published October, 2012
By S. Bengmark, Eldar M. Gadzijev and Dean Ravnik
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Following a brief outline of the technology involved in preparing casts as well as the types of casts made, this atlas devotes a whole section to three blood vessel systems (portal, arterial and venous) and the biliary system.

---

Published October, 2012
By Vicente Felipo and Santiago Grisolia
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Rating:
Availability: Available

This volume contains the papers presented at the International Symposium on "Cirrhosis, Hyperammonemia and Hepatic Encephalopathy", held in Valencia, Spain, January 24th-27th, 1994.

---

Published October, 2012
By Toshifusa Nakajima, Cancer Institute Hospital and Toshiharu Yamaguchi
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Recent clinical trials of adjuvant therapy for gastric cancer in Japan have shown improved survival benefits, but the results have been considered controversial and have been viewed with some skepticism in the West. Included in the appendix is an extensive tabular analysis of the gastric cancer database at the Cancer Institute Hospital of Tokyo.

---

Published October, 2012
By Alan B.R. Thomson and Eldon Shaffer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Topics in Gastroenterology
Rating:
Availability: Available

Presenting patient- and problem-oriented review articles, this series is designed to keep the internist, general surgeon, and specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology abreast of the latest advances in the field.

---

Published October, 2012
By Antonio Guglietta
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
Rating: 0.00
Availability: Available

---

Published October, 2012
By Felix Harder, Markus von Flüe and Jürg Metzger
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Rating:
Availability: Available

This book provides a survey for the gastric cancer surgeon. Further contributions deal with clinical and pathological staging, imaging diagnostic tools, survival, and outcome after surgery, and adjuvant therapy. In particular the technique of the ileocolon interpositional graft for reconstruction is emphasized.

---

Published October, 2012
By Jeffrey L. Conklin, Frederick C. Johlin, Joseph A. Murray, Konrad S. Schulze, Robert W. Summers and Satish S.C. Rao
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Rating:
Availability: Available

Gastrointestinal motility has evolved from an esoteric laboratory tool into a sophisti cated diagnostic technique that is now widely used clinically to guide in management of complex gastrointestinal problems.

---

Published October, 2012
By G.N. Tytgat, R.H. Hunt and Guido Tytgat
Publisher: Springer
Rating:
Availability: Available

Traditional aspects included detailed study of the microbial characteristics, the novel Helicobacters, the interaction with the human host, the peculiarities of the inflammatory immune response, the short and long-term mucosal consequences, the effects on acid secretion, the problem of gastric malignancy and the therapeutic possibilities.

---

Published October, 2012
By G.N. Tytgat, Chr J. Mulder, Chr.J Mulder and Guido Tytgat
Publisher: Springer
Series: Developments in Gastroenterology
Rating:
Availability: Available

Current video-endoscopes incorporate a black and white or color 'chip' at the tip of the instrument which transforms the visual image into electronic signals. Endoscopic ultrasonography is of unsurpassed accuracy in staging gastrointestinal tumors, in assessing pancreatic and biliary disease, and disorders of the rectum and anal canal.

---