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Colorectal Imaging: From Basic to Advanced Concepts provides an exhaustive overview of today’s basic and advanced principles of colorectal imaging, focusing not only on oncologic but also inflammatory, infective, and ischemic pathologies and complications. The book reviews basic colorectal cancer information, examines imaging techniques and analysis, and concludes with a review of non-neoplastic pathologies. It is a useful resource for scientists, physicians, and medical students in the discipline of radiology, highlighting the critical role of contemporary imaging in guiding clinical and surgical approaches and providing the knowledge needed to confidently choose the most appropriate imaging examination.
List of contents
Part 1: Colorectal cancer basic information
1. Colorectal cancer: Biology and pathology
Gavino Faa, Andrea Pretta, Matteo Fraschini, Flaviana Cau, Ferdinando Coghe, Antonella Balestrieri, Peter Van Eyken, Massimo Castagnola, Mario Scartozzi, and Luca Saba
2. Principles of surgical treatment
Valerio Argiolas, Zorcolo Luigi Zorcolo, and Angelo Restivo
3. Systemic therapies for localized colon cancer and metastatic colorectal cancer
James Robert Platt
4. The role of imaging in the management of rectal cancer
Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Giuditta Chiloiro, Priscilla Testa, Angela Romano, Calogero Casa, and Vincenzo Valentini
Part 2: Colorectal cancer imaging
5. CT imaging of colon cancer
Giovanni Grassi, Gian Luca Chabert, Giovanni Maria Argiolas, and Luca Saba
6. CT imaging of rectal cancer
Gian Luca Chabert, Giovanni Grassi, Giovanni Maria Argiolas, and Luca Saba
7. US Imaging of rectal cancer
Filippo Crimi, Simona Deidda, Angelo Restivo, and Emilio Quaia
8. MR imaging of rectal cancer
Kalina Chupetlovska, Xinde Ou, and Regina Beets-Tan
9. Posttreatment imaging of colorectal cancer
Kalina Chupetlovska, Xinde Ou, and Regina Beets-Tan
10. Lymph node imaging in colorectal cancer
Gina Brown
11. Radiomic imaging: Basic principles and applications
Francesco Pisu and Luca Saba
12. Artificial intelligence applied to the diagnosis of colorectal cancer
Ana Jimenez-Pastor and Carmen Prieto-De-La-Lastra
13. Image-based omics applications in rectal cancer: State of the art and future directions
Luca Boldrini
Part 3: Non neoplastic pathologies
14. Colon ischemia
Alessandro Pinna, Giovanni Grassi, Roberta Scicolone, Antonella Balestrieri, Carola Politi, and Luca Saba
15. Infectious diseases of colon and rectum
Ana Villanueva, Alba Salgado-Parente, Elena Canales, and Matthew Aitken
16. Autoimmune and inflammatory colon diseases
Elena Canales, Alba Salgado-Parente, Matthew Aitken, and Ana Villanueva
17. Fistulae and abscess
Domenico De Santis, Giuseppe Tremamunno, Michela Polici, Pasquale Paolantonio, Damiano Caruso, and Andrea Laghi
About the author
Luca Saba is Dean of School of Medicine at the University of Cagliari, full professor of Radiology and Chief of the Department of Radiology in the A.O.U. of Cagliari. Professor Saba’s research is focused on Multi-Detector-Row Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, Ultrasound, Neuroradiology, and Diagnostic in Vascular Sciences. His works have achieved more than 700 high impact factor in notable peer-reviewed journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Neurology, Circulation Radiology, American Journal of Neuroradiology, Atherosclerosis, European Radiology. He has spoken over 150 times at national and international levels and won 22 scientific and extracurricular awards during his career. Dr Saba has presented more than 500 papers and posters in National and International Congress (RSNA, ESGAR, ECR, ISR, AOCR, AINR, JRS, SIRM, AINR). He has written 43 book-chapters and is Editor of 19 books in the field of Computed Tomography, Cardiovascular, Plastic Surgery, Gynecological Imaging and Neurodegenerative imaging.
