Atlas of Thyroid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Markers (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Giovanella, Luca

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presents updated and comprehensive explanations of thyroid tumors, NET and tumor cells Written by experts from different laboratory and clinical areas, allowing us to relate laboratory data to clinical applications Provides economic data (including simulations and sensitivity analysis) as part of a modern approach to medical diagnosis ("choosing wisely medicine")

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319625065
• Artikelnr.: 52940629

Autorenporträt

Luca Giovanella completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Pavia (I) Medical School of in 1991. He subsequently obtained his postgraduate degrees in Nuclear Medicine (1995) and Endocrinology (2000) at the University of Milan (I) and was awarded an executive masters degree in Health Organisation and Human Resources Management (2000) by the Politecnico Universitario of Milan (I). He was a consultant at the University Hospital "Fondazione Macchi" of Varese (I) Department of Nuclear Medicine from 1993 to 2002, and he also chaired the Thyroid Unit and the Laboratory for Endocrinology from 1995 to 2002. Since 2003 he has been the Director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine-PET/CT and the Competence Centre for Thyroid Diseases at the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI) in Bellinzona and Lugano. He also serves as a scientific advisor for the Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine at Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale in Bellinzona. From 2008 to 2014 he hasbeen a "Privat-Dozent" (PD) and since 2015 he is a "Titular Professor" at the University of Zürich's Institute of Nuclear Medicine (Switzerland). His clinical and scientific activities are mainly focused on the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases with an emphasis on NUCLEAR IMAGING and therapy, ultrasound-guided interventional procedures and laboratory medicine (THYROID BIOMARKERS).

Inhaltsangabe

Circulating biomarkers: biological basis, methods and interpretation criteria .- Thyroid tumors: pathology and molecular patholog .- Differentiated thyroid cancer.- Diagnosis, therapy and follow-up .- Thyroglobulin and Thyroglobulin Autoantibodies .- Circulating molecular markers: an overview .- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.- Diagnosis, therapy and follow-up .- Calcitonin and Carcinoembryonic Antige .- Procalcitonin: are we ready for clinical use? .- Aggressive and Rare Thyroid Carcinoma:.Diagnosis and clinical management.- Circulating mucines and cytokeratins in aggressive thyroid cancers .- Neuroendocrine tumors: pathology and molecular pathology .- Neuroendocrine tumors: diagnosis, therapy and follow-up .- Chromogranin-A and other neuroendocrine tumour markers.- Neuroendocrine gene transcripts.