Surgery for Gynecologic Cancer

Description:

This comprehensive volume provides exhaustive interpretations of surgery for gynecologic cancer. In these chapters, expert authors expound the history, principles and indications, preoperative evaluations, techniques, morbidity, and the future prospects for each surgical procedure. Also included are comparisons of the training systems of gynecologic surgeons in Japan and the USA. Recently, minimally invasive surgeries such as laparoscopic and robotic approaches have been introduced into the gynecologic oncology field. Readers will be interested to know the history, advances, and current status of gynecologic surgery in Japan. This collection methodically broadens understanding of new surgical methods with quality assurance aimed at saving the cancer patient’s life, from the point of view of gynecologic oncologists. Thus the book benefits not only experienced gynecologists, but also young physicians and all medical oncologists who are involved in gynecologic cancers.

Table of Contents:

1. Subspecialty Training of Gynecologic Surgery in Japan

2. Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Training in the United States

3. Surgical Anatomy of Gynecologic Malignancies

4. Conization

5. Abdominal Hysterectomy

6. Modified Radical Hysterectomy

7. Abdominal Nerve-Sparing Radical Hysterectomy

8. Radical Vaginal Hysterectomy

9. Indication, Technique, and Outcome of Super-Radical Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer

10. Laparoscopic Radical Hysterectomy

11. Robotic Surgery for Gynecologic Cancer

12. Radical Trachelectomy

13. Role of Para-aortic Lymphadenectomy During Radical Hysterectomy for Stage IB–IIB Cervical Cancer

14. Laparoscopic Pelvic Exenteration for Recurrent Cervical Cancer

15. Sentinel Node Navigation Surgery

16. Outline of Surgery (Refer to Hysterectomy in Section of Cervical Cancer)

17. Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection

18. Laparoscopic Surgery for Endometrial Cancer

19. Sentinel Node Navigation Surgery for Endometrial Cancer

20. Outline of Surgical Treatments

21. Staging Laparotomy in Early Ovarian Cancer

22. Primary Debulking Surgery (Advanced)

23. Upper Abdomen

24. Lymph Node Dissection for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

25. Intestinal Surgery

26. Interval Debulking Surgery

27. Fertility Preservation

28. Surgery for Vulvar Cancer and Vaginal Cancer