title: Diagnostic guided surgical therapy of gastrointestinal cancer.
abstract: Stage adapted treatment of gastrointestinal cancer including extended preoperative work-up, multimodal therapeutic options as well as complete tumor resection becomes more important in the last years. Besides conventional tumor staging, the performance of endosonography or surgical laparoscopy seems to be mandatory in planning limited surgical or endoscopic procedures with curative intent as well as preoperative therapy in locally advanced tumors or locoregional recurrences and metastases. Therefore, in modern surgical oncology, diagnostic guided treatment of the individual tumor situation represents the optimal therapy nowadays.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Allgemein- und Viszeralchirurgie Städtisches Klinikum Solingen Gotenstrasse 1, D-42653 Solingen, Germany.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D019160:Endosonography; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging