Overview
- Editors:
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Arthur Zimmermann
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Inst. Pathologie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Giorgio Perilongo
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Dipto. Pediatria, Unità di Oncoematologia Pediatrica, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
- A comprehensive update on the complex and rapidly evolving field of liver tumors in children, and unique in focusing specifically on this topic
- Many of the editors and authors are members of the SIOPEL, German, and U.S. groups and have played a central role in the international controlled trials that have dramatically improved the outcome of a previously devastating disease
- Will prove invaluable to specialists, generalists and trainees alike
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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- Arthur Zimmermann, Giorgio Perilongo
Pages 1-1
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- Roland Kappler, Dietrich von Schweinitz
Pages 27-42
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- Michael Grotzer, Tarek Shalaby
Pages 53-58
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- Arthur Zimmermann, Dolores Lopez-Terrada
Pages 83-112
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- Piotr Czauderna, Dietrich von Schweinitz
Pages 113-131
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- Rebecka L. Meyers, Jean-Bernard Otte
Pages 133-152
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- Giorgio Perilongo, Bruce Morland, Marcio Malogolowkin
Pages 153-163
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- Jozsef Zsiros, Laurence Brugières
Pages 165-176
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- Penelope Brock, Gill Levitt
Pages 189-199
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- Gianni Bisogno, Arthur Zimmermann
Pages 209-221
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- Giorgio Perilongo, Arthur Zimmermann
Pages 223-225
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Back Matter
Pages 227-231
About this book
The field of liver tumors in children has seen tremendous therapeutic advances over recent years. This has been achieved through a much better understanding of the biology of disease, improved diagnostic procedures, refined methods of pretreatment tumor staging, the implementation of highly efficient chemotherapy and surgery, detailed monitoring of toxicity, and careful follow-up strategies. International controlled trials have played a key role in these advances, and many leading figures in the trials are among the editors and authors of this book. Their principal goal in Hepatic Tumors in Children is to provide the reader with a complete update on this complex and rapidly evolving field. All aspects of an impressive success story are covered, disclosing how the outcome of a previously devastating disease has been so dramatically improved. This book will prove essential reading for all who are involved in the care of children with liver tumors.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This slender but tightly packed book is essentially a report on the current status of surgical and chemotherapeutic treatment of childhood liver tumors, based on the most current data from the American and European collaborative treatment groups. … Pediatric surgeons working in specialized tumor surgery settings, with the Children’s Oncology Group, or who support research activities in liver tumors will find this book invaluable. … It will stand as a thorough and quick reference in the topic as currently understood, diagnosed, and treated.” (Robert M. Arensman, Doody’s Review Services, September, 2011)
Editors and Affiliations
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Inst. Pathologie, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Arthur Zimmermann
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Dipto. Pediatria, Unità di Oncoematologia Pediatrica, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
Giorgio Perilongo
About the editors
Prof.Dr.med.em Arthur Zimmermann graduated in Medicine at the University of Berne, Switzerland. He attended the local Pathology Residency Program, followed by several years of experipmental basic research in the fields of cancer cell cycle mutants and mechanisms of leukocyte and cancer cell motility. As chief of staff and then head of the division of surgical pathology at the University of Berne he specialized in hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumor pathology, where he became the author and coauthor of more than 500 publications. Until July 2009, Prof. Zimmermann was Acting Director of the Institute of Pathology of the University of Berne. As an expert in pediatric liver tumors he is an international consultant and holds the Pathology Review Center for the International Childhood Liver Tumor Study Group ( SIOPEL ). Prof. Giorgio Perilongo graduated in Medicine in 1980 at the University of Padua, Italy; he then attended the local Pediatric Residency program for then completing his post-graduate education with a fellowship in Hematology-Oncology first and in Neuro-Oncology thereafter at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Presently he is the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics of the University Hospital in Padua. He was among the founders of the International Childhood Liver Tumor Study Groups (otherwise known as SIOPEL group), the international cooperative research group on childhood liver tumors based in Europe conceived within the umbrella of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology. Within this group is has and he is still playing a very active role. He chaired a series of clinical trials already published in the main international scientific journals.
