Book description
This concise and practical guide enables the gynecologist to
differentiate between benign and malignant gynecologic conditions to
determine the best management options for the patient.
Over the past three decades, as the specialty of obstetrics and
gynecology has matured into a broad and diverse group of skills and
disciplines, it has become apparent that there are diagnoses and
conditions in gynecologic oncology where the obstetrician-gynecologist
has a level of uncertainty, or lack of confidence in his ability or
knowledge base to adequately manage the patient and therefore refers
the patient to a gynecologic oncologist.
This text portrays the advances in the field and reviews the current
management of a number of gynaecologic conditions to give the reader
the confidence needed to deal with these issues. The distinguides
Editors have crafted the book to include:
- Case vignettes to provide clinical context
- Pathology notes to aid diagnostic outcomes
- Management guidance for obgyn practitioners to enable the best
outcome for their patients
Each topic is introduced with a concise overview followed by
case-based scenarios which discuss the specific management of common problems.
Providing the general gynecologist with the current clinical
information necessary to manage conditions and identify the situations
where consultation or referral to a gynecologic oncologist would be in
the patient's best interest.
Daniel L Clarke-Pearson, MD, Professor of
Obstetrics & Gynecology and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics
& Gynecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill, North
Carolina, USA
John T Soper, MD, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology,
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of North
Carolina, Chapel-Hill, North Carolina, USA
