Editors: Stephan D. Voss, Kieran McHugh 2019 When the Series Editors for the Springer Verlag Pediatric Oncology Series first approached us to consider developing a comprehensive text focused on Imaging in Pediatric Oncology, we were enthusiastic. Not since 1992, when Cohen published his text Imaging of Children with Cancer, has there been a textbook dedicated […]
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Editors: Michael N. Patlas, Douglas S. Katz, Mariano Scaglione 2019 Over the past half century, emergency radiology has come into being as a subspecialty on its own. Corresponding to a dynamic period in CT technology, the evolution of the specialty has been profound. What originally began as an area of interest for some has morphed […]
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Editors: ConnieM. Rhee Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Gregory A. Brent 2019 This inaugural edition of Endocrine Disorders in Kidney Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment is dedicated to examining the complex interplay between endocrine and kidney disorders and how this interrelationship impacts patients with chronic kidney disease, including those receiving renal replacement therapy in the form of dialysis and […]
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Editors: Janna S. Gordon-Elliott Anna H. Rosen 2019 Young adulthood is a time of substantial transition, growth, risk, and opportunity. Transitioning out of adolescence involves developmental challenges including, but not limited to, establishment of independence, crystallization of personality, navigation of intimate relationships, and laying the groundwork for a career. This stage of life is also the […]
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Editor Alexander Shifrin 2019 Minimally invasive surgery has become the standard-of-care approach for the treatment of adrenal tumors. As with cholecystectomies, current surgical approach for most adrenalectomies is performed either by anterior-lateral laparoscopic or by posterior retroperitoneoscopic approaches. The Atlas of Adrenal Surgery is designed to illustrate different techniques on how to perform successful adrenalectomies […]
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Editors: Maria Dorobantu, Giuseppe Mancia, Guido Grassi, Victor Voicu 2019 Hypertension is the most prevalent risk factor for heart failure (HF) and large epidemiological studies show it to carry the highest population attributable risk for this disease compared to all other risk factors. A long known positive aspect, however, is that the blood pressure (BP) […]
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Editors: Emily A. Cook, Jeremy J. Cook 2019 As Aesop famously said, “familiarity breeds contempt,” and the ubiquitous hammertoe deformity is proof to this statement as fact. We have attended many conferences, lectures, and workshops throughout our careers. At these meetings, we have often been surprised by the number of practitioners that ask for advice […]
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Editors: Hiromasa Ohira, Kiyoshi Migita 2019 The first edition of Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Manifestations of Rheumatic Diseases includes state-of-the-art knowledge of the field of digestive and hepatobiliary complications of the most common rheumatic disorders. Rheumatic diseases are disorders of systemic connective tissue and are thought to be caused by autoimmunity. They present with a diverse […]
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Editors: Achilles Thoma, Sheila Sprague, Sophocles H. Voineskos, Charles H. Goldsmith 2019 A Guide to Understanding and Interpreting the Surgical Literature The terms Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Evidence-Based Surgery (EBS) are ubiquitous now. With very few exceptions, however, most surgeons who use these terms do not have a good grasp of the meaning of these […]
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Antonio Subtil 2019 A Visual Approach to Differential Diagnosis and Knowledge Gaps The diagnosis of cutaneous lymphoid infiltrates is one of the most challenging topics of pathology, in part because this area is at the interface of several medical disciplines (dermatopathology, hematopathology, dermatology, and hematology/oncology). As a pathologist trained in both dermatopathology and hematopathology, I have […]
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