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Benign Tumors of the Liver

  • Information on epidemiology, histopathology and genetics of benign liver tumors
  • Systematic review of pathologies to facilitate differential diagnosis and definition of surgical indications
  • Detailed section on surgery that will help the reader to optimize intra- and postoperative management, highlighting differences with surgery for malignant tumors

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. General Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Epidemiology and Histopathology

      • Francesco Cetta
      Pages 3-11
    3. Molecular Biology and Genetics

      • Francesco Cetta
      Pages 13-23
    4. Genetic Syndromes and Benign Liver Tumors

      • Francesco Cetta, Giuseppe Fusai, Massimo Malagò
      Pages 25-33
    5. Liver Pathophysiology: Liver Regeneration, Vascular Alterations, and Ischemia/Reperfusion

      • Francesco Cetta, Giuseppe Fusai, Massimo Malagò
      Pages 35-45
  3. Imaging

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Imaging Modalities

      • Francesco De Cobelli, Gabriele Ironi, Paolo Marra, Antonio Esposito, Alessandro Del Maschio
      Pages 49-60
    3. Systematics of Imaging Morphology

      • Francesco De Cobelli, Paolo Marra, Gabriele Ironi, Antonio Esposito, Alessandro Del Maschio
      Pages 61-75
    4. Differential Diagnosis of Benign Liver Tumors

      • Francesco De Cobelli, Paolo Marra, Gabriele Ironi, Antonio Esposito, Alessandro Del Maschio
      Pages 77-89
  4. Systematic Review of Benign Liver Tumors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Cysts and Polycystic Liver Disease

      • Antonio Giuliani, Sergio Aloia, Enrico Crolla, Loredana Sodano, Aldo Rocca, Fulvio Calise
      Pages 93-109
    3. Cystic Bile Duct Dilatations and Caroli’s Disease

      • Felice Giuliante, Agostino Maria De Rose, Gennaro Nuzzo
      Pages 111-127
    4. Hepatolithiasis

      • Felice Giuliante, Agostino Maria De Rose, Gennaro Nuzzo
      Pages 129-146
    5. Hemangioma

      • Alessandro Ferrero, Nadia Russolillo, Serena Langella, Lorenzo Capussotti
      Pages 147-157
    6. Focal Nodular Hyperplasia

      • Enrico Pinotti, Francesca Ratti, Federica Cipriani, Michele Paganelli, Marco Catena, Renato Finazzi et al.
      Pages 159-168
    7. Hepatocellular Adenoma

      • Giorgio Ercolani, Chiara Zanfi, Matteo Cescon, Antonio Daniele Pinna
      Pages 169-181
    8. Adenoma and Biliary Cystadenoma

      • Kevin C. Soares, Andrew J. Page, Ihab Kamel, Timothy M. Pawlik
      Pages 183-193
    9. Benign Tumors of Bile Ducts and Gallbladder

      • Marco Massani, Nicolò Bassi, C. Nistri, B. Pauletti
      Pages 195-206
    10. Liver Focal Localizations of Systemic Diseases

      • Massimo Memoli
      Pages 207-216

About this book

Diagnosis of benign liver tumors is experiencing exponential growth, mainly owing to the diffusion of more accurate imaging techniques. This monograph examines the epidemiology, histopathology and genetics of these tumors and provides a systematic overview of their evolution and differential diagnosis. Care is taken to document surgical indications accurately, with a view to assisting in the avoidance of useless interventions. Open, laparoscopic and robotic surgical techniques are described and illustrated, emphasizing the optimization of intra- and postoperative management in order to avoid potential complications and degeneration. In these chapters, attention is drawn to the ways in which the surgical management of benign liver tumors differs from that of malignant tumors. The book concludes by examining the role of interventional radiology in patients with benign liver tumors.

Reviews

“The authors should be commended for their meticulous literature search and the efforts made to include the latest information on hepatology. … this lucid and readable book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on a subject that deserves greater attention from clinicians. Both students and practitioners of hepatology and hepatobiliary surgery would find this book useful.” (Shaleen Agarwal, The National Medical Journal of India, Vol. 28 (5), September-October, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hepatobiliary Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milano, Italy

    Luca Aldrighetti, Gianfranco Ferla

  • IRCCS MultiMedica Hospital, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy

    Francesco Cetta

About the editors

Luca Aldrighetti, MD, PhD, is presently Head of the Hepato-biliary Surgery Unit at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. His previous professional and scientific education includes PhD in Surgical Technologies (1995) and Surgical Fellow at the Pittsburgh Transplantation Institute. Assistant Professor of Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University – School of Medicine. President of the Italian Group of Minimally Invasive Liver Surgery (IGoMILS). Dr Aldrighetti is specialized in hepatobiliary surgery, laparoscopic liver surgery, perioperative care of patients undergoing liver resection, surgical care of patient with chronic liver failure, vascular access. His research interests include: pathophysiology and modulation of hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury and liver regeneration, colorectal liver metastases, perihilar tumors, techniques for liver transection, laparoscopic liver surgery, primary liver tumors.

Francesco Cetta MD, PhD, has been full professor of Surgical Clinics of the University of Siena till 2012. Specialized in Surgery and Urology, he has been visiting professor at UCLA and Cedar Sinai Hospital of Los Angeles (Prof. G. Berci), John Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA) (Prof. H. Pitt, K Liellemoe), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Prof. P. Malet), University of Virginia, Richmond (Prof. H. Sugerman), University of Lund a Malmoe (Svezia) (Prof. B. Jeppsson), Hospital Beaujon (Paris, France) (Prof. J. Belghiti) and University of Nagoya (Prof. Y. Nimura). Prof. Cetta is member of the most important Italian surgical societies, as well as of the American College of Surgeons, the International Surgical Society and other relevant international societies. He presently serves as scientific coordinator at IRCCS Multimedica, Milan.

Gianfranco Ferla, MD, PhD, started as Assistant/Registrar Specialist in Surgery at the Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico and at the San Raffaele Hospital Scientific Institute, both in Milan. After being called as professor to the San Raffaele Vita Salute University, further to his academic duties, in 1994 he was nominated Head of the General and Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit at the San Raffaele Hospital and Scientific Institute in Milan, a position which he has held until 2014. G. Ferla has been visiting fellow/professor five times at the Dept. of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and at the Dept of Surgery,University of Cambridge (UK). His main research areas are on organ transplantation (liver, kidney, pancreas, multi-organ in animals and liver in humans), gastrointestinal Surgery, Hepatobiliary Surgery (primitive tumors and liver metastasis) and bariatric surgery, and his clinical and experimental scientific activity is documented by over 450 publications.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Benign Tumors of the Liver

  • Editors: Luca Aldrighetti, Francesco Cetta, Gianfranco Ferla

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12985-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12984-6Published: 06 May 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34673-1Published: 12 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12985-3Published: 21 April 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 337

  • Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Abdominal Surgery, Gastroenterology, Imaging / Radiology, Hepatology

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