Danko Velimir Vrdoljak

Mladen Stanec

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Acta Clin Croat,  Vol. 49,  No. 4,  2010 487BOOK REVIEWSurgical OncOlOgy/KiruršKa OnKOlOgija by Mladen Stanec,Danko Velimir Vrdoljak and Marko Turić,Editor. Medicinska naklada, Zagreb 2011. 442 pagesISBN 978-953-176-498-8The book Kirurška onkologija (Surgical Oncol-ogy) is an original work in which the authors Mladen Stanec, Danko Velimir Vrdoljak and Marko Turić, in collaboration with renowned Croatian surgeons in the field of oncology, for the first time in our country systematically present surgical treatment of oncologic patients as the most common and crucial step in the management of malignant diseases. Surgical oncol-ogy as a profession has been increasingly imposing as a separate surgical field demanding highly specific knowledge and surgical skills from the surgeon. Be-sides exceptional knowledge of surgery, surgical on-cology also requires great knowledge of oncology and of all other therapeutic modalities for patients suffer-ing from most severe diseases. The appearance of this book in Croatian language is of utmost importance just because of the extent and severity of this health-care issue.Specificities of surgical oncology pose a huge healthcare problem for a number of reasons. First is the increasing prevalence of oncologic diseases in the past few decades, classifying oncologic patients as most common patients with most severe diseases that require most sophisticated and most expensive treat-ment modalities. Second reason is that no single mode of treatment is efficient, failing to yield best results in oncologic patients. Because of the wide extent and high severity of this healthcare issue and the role of surgi-cal oncology as a profession and part of sub-residency in surgery, the publication of this book in Croatian language is extremely valuable. Surgical approach to oncologic patient must be multidisciplinary and inter-disciplinary, including a number of other professions, e.g., family physicians, public health professionals, population science, epidemiology, healthcare policy, healthcare system structure, healthcare economy, di-agnosticians, dermatovenereologists, ENT special-ists, gynecologists, neurosurgeons, oncologists, pa-thologists, cytologists, radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, molecular biologists, transfusiologists, and professionals of other disciplines along with surgeons. At the same time, a surgeon dealing with surgical on-cology is expected to have profound knowledge not only in solving surgical problems but also of the ba-sis of oncology; to take active part in diagnostic pro-cedures; and to know in detail the protocols of fur-ther therapy of his patients including chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The surgeon must be able to assess whether the initial surgical treatment of oncologic patient is the best and optimal therapeutic mode, or perhaps chemotherapy should be tried first, and if so, according to which protocol and for how many cycles, and whether preoperative radiotherapy is a reasonable Acta Clin Croat 2010; 49:487-488 Book Review488 Acta Clin Croat,  Vol. 49,   No. 4,  2010Acta Clin Croat 2010; 49:487-488 Book ReviewSElEcTED cHaPTErS in PEDiaTric DErMaTOlOgyODaBrana POglaVlja iZ PEDijaTrijSKE DErMaTOlOgijEby Mirna šitum, Editor, Naklada Slap, Jastrebarsko, 2010, 218 pagesISBN 978-953-191-565-6The scientific monograph entitled Odabrana poglavlja iz pedijatrijske dermatologije (Selected Chap-solution in a particular patient. That is why a com-prehensive overview of surgical treatment of oncologic patients from the viewpoint of various specialties is of utmost importance and very conveniently presented in this book.According to contents, the book is divided into fourteen sections written by the leading experts in the respective fields. The chapters are written quite uniformly yet individually colored, reflecting differ-ences among the issues tackled therein. This diversity in uniformity is characteristic of surgical oncology, as each tumor behaves differently depending on its ori-gin or seat.Mladen StanecDanko Velimir Vrdoljakters in Pediatric Dermatology) by Prof. Mirna Šitum, MD, PhD, specialist in dermatology and venereology as editor, appeared on the occasion of the respective scientific symposium. The Symposium was held at Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, organized by University Department of Dermatology and Venere-ology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, and Croatian Society of Dermatovenereology of the Croa-tian Medical Association. The organizers of the Symposium recognized the need of the extensive and very delicate problems cov-ered by pediatric dermatovenereology to be tackled in a scientific and professional way. Recent years have brought an array of new concepts and major advance-ments in understanding the reasons for the occurrence of many diseases, as well as in their diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, the organizers’ idea was to of-fer a comprehensive and instructive overview of these novel approaches.In this monograph, renowned experts in different fields of medicine, e.g., pediatric dermatologists, der-mato-oncologists, pediatricians, infectologists, gyne-cologists, pediatric surgeons and psychologists pres-ent their rich scientific and professional experiences in their long-lasting work with pediatric dermatologic patients. We do believe that this book will satisfy sci-entific curiosity of many readers and encourage those feeling insecure when facing pediatric patients with skin diseases.Marija Vurnek Živković

Book Review - Kirurška onkologija (Surgical Oncology) by Mladen Stanec, Danko Velimir Vrdoljak and Marko Turić. Medicinska naklda, Zagreb, 2011

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