Research Catalog

Title

Carcinoma of an unknown primary site / edited by Karim Fizazi.

Publication

New York : Taylor & Francis, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Fizazi, Karim.

Description

xv, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Cancer of unknown primary origin
• Neoplasms, Unknown Primary > diagnosis
• Carcinoma > diagnosis
• Carcinoma > therapy
• Neoplasms, Unknown Primary > therapy

Genre/Form

Case Reports.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. What we know about carcinomas of unknown primary site (CUP) almost for sure : incidence, survival, and necropsy data / Agnes J. Van de Wouw and Agnes Laplanche -- 2. Radiographic studies, endoscopy, and serum tumor markers in the diagnostic evaluation of carcinomas of unknown primary site / Gauri R. Varadhachary and Renato Lenzi -- 3. The advent of immunohistochemistry in carcinoma of unknown primary site : a major progress / Jean-Jacques Voigt, Marie-Christine Mathieu and Frederic Bibeau -- 4. The importance of identifying CUP subsets / Nicholas Pavlidis and Yacine Merrouche -- 5. Role of positron emission tomography with 18F-fluorodesoxyglucose (PET-FDG) in the care of carcinomas of an unknown primary site / Etienne Garin and Dirk Rades -- 6. Prognostic considerations in patients with unknown primary carcinoma / Renato Lenzi and Stephane Culine -- 7. Treatment of patients with favorable subsets of unknown primary carcinoma / John D. Hainsworth -- 8. Chemotherapy for patients with metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary site / F. Anthony Greco and Stephane Culine -- 9. Randomized trials in patients with carcinoma of an unknown primary site : the past, the present, and the future / Karim Fizazi and Hans-Joachim Schmoll -- 10. Squamous cell carcinoma of an unknown primary tumor located in the cervical lymph nodes / Marie-Christine Kaminsky and Emmanuel Blot -- 11. Women with isolated adenocarcinoma in the axillary lymph node of an unknown primary site / A. Lortholary, C. El Kouri, J. F. Ramee and P. Kerbrat -- 12. Carcinoma of unknown primary in a single site / Thierry Lesimple and Carmen Balana -- 13. Emerging local treatments in carcinomas of an unknown primary site : radiofrequency, palliative bone surgery, and radiotherapy / D. Pasquier, E. Lartigau, F. Bonodeau, G. Missenard, C. Court and B. Meunier -- 14. The biology of unknown primary tumors : the little we know, the importance of learning more / Pierre Busson, Leela Daya-Grosjean, Nicholas Pavlidis and Agnes J. Van de Wouw -- 15. Psychosocial aspects of cancer of unknown primary site / Renato Lenzi, Walter F. Baile, Chantal Rodary and Patricia A. Parker -- Case 1. A female patient with pleural extension of an unknown primary carcinoma / Karim Fizazi -- Comment / F. Anthony Greco -- Case 2. A favorable case of CUP with peritoneal adenocarcinomatosis / Nicholas Pavlidis -- Comment / Thierry Lesimple -- Case 3. Clear cell adenocarcinoma presenting as a carcinoma of unknown primary origin / Carmen Balana, Eva Castella and Rafael Rosell -- Case 4. A female patient with a single-site carcinoma of an unknown primary located on the thoracic wall / Karim Fizazi and Sylvie Bonvalot -- Comment / Nicholas Pavlidis -- Case 5. An unfavorable case of CUP with metastatic adenocarcinoma to the liver and bones / Nicholas Pavlidis -- Comment / Yacine Merrouche -- Case 6. A favorable case of CUP with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the liver with neuroendocrine differentiation / Nicholas Pavlidis -- Comment / Stephane Culine -- Case 7. Carcinoma or melanoma of an unknown primary? / Emmanuel Blot and Sophie Laberge-Le-Couteulx -- Comment / Yacine Merrouche -- Case 8. A male patient with HIV infection and carcinoma of an unknown primary site / Roland Bugat -- Comment / A. Plantade, P. Achain and C. Louvet -- Case 9. A 66-year-old male with liver metastases of an unknown primary site / Roland Bugat -- Comment / A. Plantade, P. Afchain and C. Louvet -- Case 10. An undifferentiated carcinoma of an unknown primary of the middle line in a young adult / Roland Bugat -- Comment / A. Plantade, P. Afchain and C. Louvet -- Case 11. A female with bone metastases of an unknown primary site / Roland Bugat -- Comment / A. Plantade, P. Afchain and C. Louvet.

ISBN

• 0824727991 (alk. paper)
• 9780824727994 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005046647

OCLC

• ocm62736851
• 62736851
• SCSB-5331320

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries