Normal Imaging Findings After Surgery
Fig. 4.1 A 5 cm layer of fat does not prevent diagnosis of 12 mm CBD dilatation due to an obstructing 10 mm calculus with posterior acoustic shadowing (white arrow)….
How Imaging Can Rule Out Complications After Surgery
Fig. 5.1 shows gastric pouch (white arrow) and short proximal, blind-ending afferent jejunal limb (black arrow) The stomach is divided and there is a band of staples which occludes the…
The Role of Interventional Radiology in the Management of Post-Operative Complications
Mortality at less than 30 days Mortality at more than 30 days Reoperation rate Complications Adjustable gastric banding 0.07% (0.02–0.12) 0.21% (0.08–0.37) 7.01% (3.99–11.24) 7.80% (3.90–13.00) Sleeve gastrectomy 0.29%…
Surgical Approaches to the Treatment of Obesity
, Francesca Abbatini1 and Gianfranco Silecchia1 (1) General and Bariatric Surgery Unit, Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies-Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy Laparoscopic adjustable silicone gastric banding (LAGB ) was the first…
The Role of Imaging Before and After Surgery
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018Andrea Laghi and Marco Rengo (eds.)Imaging in Bariatric Surgeryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49299-5_3 3. The Role of Imaging Before and After Surgery Marco Rengo1 , Simona Picchia1 and Andrea Laghi1 (1) Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences,…
What’s Behind the Obesity Epidemic
Classification Body mass index category Underweight <18.5 Normal weight 18.5–24.9 Overweight 25.0–29.9 Obese >30.0 Class I 30.0–34.9 Class II 35.0–39.9 Class III >40.0 These BMI cut points in adults are…
Lung and Central Airway Malignancies
7 Lung and Central Airway Malignancies Sarah Baker and Alysa Fairchild INTRODUCTION Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, with 1.8 million patients diagnosed in 2012.1 75%…
Bone Metastases
3 Bone Metastases Pei Shuen Lim and Peter J. Hoskin INTRODUCTION Approximately 50% of the workload in a radiation therapy (RT) department is comprised of palliative work, of which the…
Brain Metastases
5 Brain Metastases Mohammad Hasan and May N. Tsao INTRODUCTION Demographics Metastatic disease to the brain is the most common intracranial tumor.1 The incidence of brain metastases is at least…
Head and Neck
6 Head and Neck Albert Tiong and June Corry INTRODUCTION Head and neck cancers encompass a wide variety of anatomic subsites and histologies, though most commonly they are squamous cell…
