Laparoscopy in combination with laparoscopic ultrasonography is a new staging procedure for tumors of the abdomen. The treatment of several other tumor entities, such as pancreatic and gastric cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, liver malignancies, is also improved by more accurate staging. Laparoscopic staging helps prevent unnecessary laparotomies, provides much less trauma to the patient, maximum information on tumor spread, and enables palliative procedures to be performed during the staging procedure. This book provides detailed guidelines on the aim and technique of laparoscopic staging and discusses the pathophysiological aspects and risks of laparoscopic staging (such as trocar metastases) on the basis of international experience.

Laparoscopy in combination with laparoscopic ultrasonography is a new staging procedure for tumors of the abdomen. The treatment of several other tumor entities, such as pancreatic and gastric cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, liver malignancies, is also improved by more accurate staging. Laparoscopic staging helps prevent unnecessary laparotomies, provides much less trauma to the patient, maximum information on tumor spread, and enables palliative procedures to be performed during the staging procedure. This book provides detailed guidelines on the aim and technique of laparoscopic staging and discusses the pathophysiological aspects and risks of laparoscopic staging (such as trocar metastases) on the basis of international experience.

Das vorliegende Buch ist ein praktischer Leitfaden der interventionellen Techniken f}r die Gef{ intervention und richtet sich damit sowohl an rzte, die mit Gef{ intervention beginnen wollen, als auch an Kollegen, die bereits Erfahrungen gesammelt haben und sich in den modernen Techniken und Materialien fortbilden wollen. Angesprochen sind alle Praktiker in den Bereichen Radiologie, Chirurgie and Innere Medizin. Zur didaktischen Veranschaulichung sind die Kapitel des Buches einheitlich nach Pathophysiologie, Indikation, medikament-se Zusatztherapie, Beschreibung der Materialien, Methodik, Ergebnisse, Komplikation und Vorsichtsma nahmen gegliedert. Das Buch enth{lt viele wertvolle Anregungen zu allerneuesten Techniken und Materialien wie Stents, Mikroembolisationskatheter, Pulse-Spray u.v.a.m.