Pierre Lascombes 2010 The Nancy University Manual For many decades up to the late 1960’s, the treatment of the diaphyseal and metaphyseal fractures in children was exclusively conservative. At that time, the only significant textbook on children’s fractures was that of Walter Blount, which was published in 1955.
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Mark R. Pitkin 2010 Public attention to people who need prostheses and to prostheses themselves always grows during times of war and culminates immediately after the war ends. One obvious reason is the sharp rise in the number of amputees. The other reason is the temporary release and availability of technical and intellectual resources, previously devoted to the […]
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Edited by JEFFREY S.PALMER 2009 Laparoscopic surgery has been instrumental in the advancement of minimally invasive surgery in the adult patient with urologic conditions. Robotic assisted laparoscopic surgery has allowed the urologic surgeon to perform more advanced laparoscopy operations in the adult patient.
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Miklós Szendrői · Franklin H. Sim (Eds.) 2009 The evaluation of musculoskeletal disorders is often problematic because of the variety of diseases and diagnostic complexity. Th is is compounded by the increasing specialization in this field.
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Edited by Monica Castiglione Martine J. Piccart 2009
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Andrea Tannapfel (Editor) 2011 Malignant mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive tumor arising from the mesothelium. Pleural, peritoneal, and pericardial mesothelioma are possible entities according to the site of origin. Diffuse malignant mesothelioma is strongly associated with exposure to asbestos and was first referred by Selikoff in 1965 as a “signal tumor” because of its close association with occupational […]
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Bing Shi Brian C. Sommerlad Editors 2013 Congenital cleft lip and palate is the most common cranio-maxillo-facial birth defect. It can markedly affect the morphology and almost all the functions in the facial area except vision. Religion, superstition, invention and charlatanism characterized the early history of cleft lip.
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Melvin A. Shiffman • Alberto Di Giuseppe Editors 2013 Art, Science, and New Clinical Techniques There are many books on rhinoplasty, but most are limited to the editor’s techniques or those of a few contributors. These give restricted information on the variety of procedures that are available and are mainly for teaching the inexperienced and somewhat experienced surgeons how […]
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Stephen P. Glasser Editor 2014
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Johan Bellemans (Editor) Michael D. Ries (Editor) Jan M.K. Victor (Editor) 2005 Few domains in orthopedics have evolved so dramatically over the past decades as our knowledge and understanding of knee physiology and knee replacement surgery. Long ago are the days that hinged knees or unconstrained flat on flat components with gamma irradiated in air polyethylene were […]
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