Cutaneous malignancy of the head and neck : a multidisciplinary approach / Randal S. Weber, Brian A. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Randal S., author.

Moore, Brian A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Head--Cancer.

Head.

Neck--Cancer.

Neck.

Skin--Cancer.

Skin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Diego, California ; Abingdon, England : Plural Publishing, Inc., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to cutaneous malignancy of the head and neck, as international experts in head and neck surgical oncology, dermatology, Mohs micrographic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, radiation oncology, and medical oncology present state-of-the-art techniques and promising horizons in the treatment of cutaneous malignancy of the head and neck. Whether in primary care or a specialty practice, this text should prove invaluable to any practitioner who treats patients with skin cancer of the head and neck.

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; 1. SKIN ANATOMY; 2. CLINICAL EVALUATION; 3. PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACT OF SKIN CANCER TREATMENT; 4. SCREENING, SURVEILLANCE, AND PREVENTION; 5. ULTRAVIOLET CARCINOGENESIS AND IMMUNE SUPPRESSION; 6. HISTOPATHOLOGY OF NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER; 7. EPIDEMIOLOGY, STAGING, AND PROGNOSIS OF NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER; 8. AGGRESSIVE NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER; 9. SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF LOCOREGIONAL DISEASE; 10. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: PERIAURICULAR LESIONS; 11. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: PERIORBITAL AND OCULAR ADNEXAL CUTANEOUS LESIONS

12. SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: NEUROSURGICAL MANAGEMENT13. RADIOTHERAPY FOR CUTANEOUS SQUAMOUS AND BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; 14. PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY FOR NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER; 15. THERAPEUTIC HORIZONS FOR CUTANEOUS MALIGNANCIES; 16. ADNEXAL TUMORS; 17. MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA; 18. DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; 19. ANGIOSARCOMA; 20. MELANOMA: EPIDEMIOLOGY, STAGING, AND PROGNOSIS; 21. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS OF MELANOMA/ MECHANISMS OF SPREAD; 22. IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY OF MELANOMA; 23. HISTOLOGY OF MELANOMA AND PRECURSOR LESIONS; 24. LOCAL MANAGEMENT OF MELANOMA

25. REGIONAL MANAGEMENT OF MELANOMA IN THE CLINICALLY NODE-NEGATIVE NECK26. REGIONAL MANAGEMENT OF MELANOMA IN THE CLINICALLY NODE-POSITIVE NECK; 27. ROLE OF CHEMOTHERAPY, BIOCHEMOTHERAPY, AND TARGETED SYSTEMIC THERAPIES IN THE TREATMENT OF METASTATIC MELANOMA; 28. OCULAR MELANOMA; 29. MUCOSAL MELANOMA; 30. MICROSCOPICALLY ORIENTED HISTOGRAPHIC SURGERY (MOHS): INDICATIONS, PRINCIPLES, AND TECHNIQUE; 31. MOHS SURGERY: ADJUNCTIVE TREATMENT OF SKIN CANCER; 32. PRINCIPLES OF HEAD AND NECK CUTANEOUS RECONSTRUCTION; 33. NASAL RECONSTRUCTION; 34. LIP RECONSTRUCTION; 35. PERIORBITAL RECONSTRUCTION

36. AURICULAR RECONSTRUCTION37. SCALP RECONSTRUCTION; 38. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CHEEK; 39. PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 20, 2014).

ISBN:

1-59756-581-4