Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery: New Trends and Solutions
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 May 2024) | Viewed by 1419
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HPB surgery; liver surgery; liver cancer; pancreas surgery; pancreatic cancer; HPB benign diseases; liver transplant; surgical oncology; minimally invasive surgery
Interests: liver transplant; liver diseases; HPB surgery; pancreatic surgery; minimally invasive surgery; surgical oncology
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Dear Colleagues,
Hepatobiliary and pancreatic (HPB) diseases—both benign and malignant—represent a challenge in medicine. It is estimated that liver and pancreatic diseases, both malignant and benign, will increase their incidence in the coming decades. The aggressive behavior of HPB malignancies and the often-advanced stages at diagnosis are the main causes for the high mortality rate of these patients. On the other end, benign conditions such as chronic pancreatitis or liver cirrhosis are associated with an increased risk of developing cancer and may require aggressive treatments themselves (e.g., liver transplantation). However, in recent years, several advances have been made in the management of this group of diseases. Improvements in surgical technique, targeted chemo- and radiotherapy, and radiological and endoscopic tools are at the backbone of future research endeavors in the HPB field.
We invite surgeons, oncologist, gastroenterologists, and all the physicians involved in the treatments of HPB diseases to collaborate in this Special Issue, sending us their most valuable scientific contributions.
Dr. Alessandro Coppola
Dr. Giuseppe Bianco
Dr. Elena Panettieri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pancreatic surgery
- pancreatic cancer
- HPB surgery
- HPB benign diseases
- HPB cancers
- liver surgery
- metastases
- cholangiocarcinoma
- HCC
- liver transplant
- minimally invasive HPB surgery
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