Meet the editor

Miana Gabriela Pop was born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on September 3, 1988. In 2013, she graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Miana-Gabriela Pop is a general surgery resident and university assistant in the Department of Anatomy and Embryology of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hatieganu," Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Passionate about surgery, she completed her residency training through valuable professional fellowship programs in the field of hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery and minimally invasive procedures in France (Centre Hepato-Biliare Paul Brousse, Paris, IRCAD Laparoscopic Training Center, Strasbourg) and the Netherlands (the Netherlands Cancer Institute—NKI, Amsterdam). This scientific activity has resulted in the publication of seven anatomy and surgery chapters and 11 scientific papers.

Contents

**Section 1**

Biomarkers

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

*by Miana Gabriela Pop*

*by Miana Gabriela Pop*

A Clinical Surgical Approach

*Fabiana Lima Marques, Robson Dettman Jarske and Octavio Meneghelli Galvão Gonçalves*

Stem Cell Markers in Colon Cancer

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Molecular Surgical Pathology **7**

**Chapter 2 9**

Clinical Surgery **21**

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 57**

Preoperative Assessment of Functioning Benign Adrenocortical Tumors:

*by Bruno Costa do Prado, Alana Rocha Puppim, Jose Tadeu Carvalho Martins,* 

Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy: Techniques and Results *by Maroun Moukarzel, Charbel Chalouhy, Nabil Harake and Freda Richa*

Prenatal Diagnosis and Management of Sacrococcygeal Teratomas

*by Anca Budusan, Horatiu Gocan and Roxana Popa-Stanila*

Introductory Chapter: General Surgery in the Era of Modern Molecular
