| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 225 pages) : illustrations |
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Cancer etiology, diagnosis and treatments |
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Cancer etiology, diagnosis, and treatments.
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| Contents |
BONE TUMORS: SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT; BONE TUMORS: SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: Primary Tumors of the Axial Spine; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; CHORDOMAS; GIANT CELL TUMORS; HEMANGIOMA; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; ANEURYSMAL BONE CYST; OSTEOBLASTOMA; CHONDROSARCOMA/OSTEOSARCOMA; OSTEOID OSTEOMA; FIBROUS DYSPLASIA; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: Current Strategies in the Management of Metastatic Spine Disease and Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression; ABSTRACT |
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INTRODUCTIONCLINICAL SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS; INVESTIGATIONS; TREATMENT STREGTEGIES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: Surgical Strategy for the Management of Metastatic Spine Tumors: Indications, Techniques and Outcomes ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; CLASSIFICATIONS; SURGICAL TREATMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUES; SURGICAL STRATEGY; ABBREVIATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: Spinal Chordomas ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PRESENTATION AND NATURAL HISTORY; IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES; MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; CONSERVATIVE/ADJUNCTIVE TREATMENT STRATEGIES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; OUTCOMES |
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RECENT GENETIC AND MOLECULAR ADVANCESSUMMARY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: Imaging of Notochordal Tumors ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CLASSIC CHORDOMA; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 6: Aminobisphosphonates and Nano Technologically-modified Aminobiphophonates: A New Dawn in the Treatment of Bone and Extra-Bone Tumors?; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CLINICAL RESULTS OF ABPS AND ZOL IN PREVENTING SKELETAL RELATED EVENTS; PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE OF DIRECT CLINICAL ANTI-CANCER ACTIVITY OF ZOL; PHARMACOKINETIC CONCERNS THAT LIMIT THE ANTI-CANCER ACTIVITY OF ZOL |
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NANOTECHNOLOGICAL MODIFICATIONS OF ABPS: ENCAPSULATION OF ABPS AND ZOL IN NANODEVICESCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7: Malignant Transformation of Benign Bone Tumors with Special Reference to Giant-Cell Tumor and Giant-Cell-Containing Lesions; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CONVENTIONAL GIANT-CELL TUMOR OF BONE; HISTOLOGY OF GIANT-CELL TUMOR OF BONE; FACTORS THAT AFFECT LOCAL RELAPSE OF CONVENTIONAL GIANT-CELL TUMORS; MALIGNANCY IN GIANT-CELL TUMOR OF BONE; METASTASIZING BENIGN GIANT-CELL TUMOR OF BONE; FACTORS THAT MAY RELATE TO MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION IN GIANT-CELL TUMOR OF BONE |
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SECONDARY MALIGNANT GIANT-CELL TUMOR OF BONEMALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION VS. PRIMARY MALIGNANCY IN OTHER BONE TUMORS; PSEUDOSARCOMATOUS CHANGE (PSEUDOANAPLASIA/PSEUDOMALIGNANT); REFERENCES; Chapter 8: Calvarial Lesions: Classification and Management; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; BENIGN LESIONS; PRIMARY MALIGNANT LESIONS; SECONDARY MALIGNANT LESIONS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 9: Secondary Bone Tumors in Prostate Cancer: New Treatments on the Horizon; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. REMODELING OF BONE IN BONE METASTASIS; 3. TREATMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER ASSOCIATED BONE METASTASIS; CONCLUSION |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed July 30, 2013) |
| Subject |
Bone -- Tumors
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Bones -- Tumors.
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Bone Neoplasms
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
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MEDICAL -- Oncology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berhouma, Moncef
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| ISBN |
9781626182509 |
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1626182507 |
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