Goldman-Cecil Medicine

Goldman-Cecil Medicine 26th Edition-1

Edited by Lee Goldman, Andrew I. Schafer 2020 In the more than 90 years since the first edition of the Cecil Textbook of Medicine was published, almost everything we know about internal medicine has changed. Progress in medical science is now occurring at an ever-accelerating pace, and it is doing so within the framework of […]

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Emergency General Surgery

Emergency General Surgery_ A Practical Approach 1st Edition-1

Carlos V. R. Brown • Kenji Inaba Matthew J. Martin • Ali Salim Editors 2019 The field of emergency general surgery encompasses a wide array of surgical diseases, ranging from the simple to the complex. Emergency general surgeons are tasked with caring for patients with emergent surgical diseases emanating from the emergency department or inpatient […]

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Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders

Cerebrospinal Fluid Disorders_ Lifelong Implications 1st Edition-1

David D. Limbrick Jr. • Jeffrey R. Leonard Editors 2019 Lifelong Implications Disturbances in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) physiology can occur at any stage across the lifespan, with clinical presentation, natural history, and neurological implications of pathology dependent upon patient age and etiology. While the result is often hydrocephalus, risk factors and biological mechanisms are myriad. […]

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Brachytherapy: Techniques and Evidences

Brachytherapy_ Techniques and Evidences 1st Edition-1

Yasuo Yoshioka • Jun Itami Masahiko Oguchi • Takashi Nakano Editors 2019 Brachytherapy has a long history since the discovery of radium-226 by Marie Curie in 1898 and its introduction to the cancer treatment in France in 1901. Already in 1913, the clinical results of brachytherapy in cervical cancer surpassed the results obtained through Wertheim’s […]

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Autopsy in the 21st Century

Autopsy in the 21st Century 1st Edition-1

Jody E. Hooper • Alex K. Williamson Editors 2019 Best Practices and Future Directions Every 5 years or so, another paper is published reaffirming the continuing clinical value of the autopsy in uncovering unsuspected clinical diagnoses, many of which could, if treated, have altered the course of the patient’s care. It is somewhat intriguing that […]

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