Michele Maruccia • Giuseppe Giudice Editors 2022 Basic Principles and New Perspectives As we are living in an era of ongoing globalization, over the decades, plastic surgery took advantage of the exchange of information and knowledge within the international scientific community. Therefore, knowing how to express concepts in English, the most used scientific language, it […]
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Giuseppe Maria Ettorre Editor 2023 Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a rising disease. The etiology of this tumor depends on its geographical distribution, and in most cases it is strictly related to diseased parenchyma, with fewer tumors growing on normal liver. As a young student, I remember when anti-viral therapies were being studied as a potential […]
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Ludovico Docimo • Luigi Brusciano Editors 2022 Clinical Management and Surgical Techniques Although benign, anal incontinence is a highly invalidating condition causing an important impairment to the patients’ quality of life. Its related social stigma concurs in the underestimation of its prevalence. Nowadays, a high number of patients still tend to avoid seeking medical care […]
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Federico Soria • Duje Rako • Petra de Graaf Editors 2022 The aim of this book is to provide a multidisciplinary overview of an area of knowledge that affects a multitude of patients worldwide on a daily basis and that unfortunately shows a slow technological development. The main reasons for the lack of innovation in […]
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Erik Hansen • Klaus-Dieter Kühn Editors 2022 Who would’ve or could’ve imagined how different the world would be when we first embarked on this project over a year ago? Upon reflection, a couple of things truly stand out to me. For one, the COVID pandemic has reinforced that we are truly an interconnected global community, […]
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Editors: Stephen M. Howell, Stefano A. Bini, G. Daxton Steele 2022 “Through the looking-glass” refers to the Lewis Carroll novel (i.e., the sequel to Alice in Wonderland) where Alice crosses over into a “bizarre universe” when she enters the flipped world on the other side of a mirror. The phrase implies unpredictable and strange happenings, a poignant […]
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Peter Vaupel Editor 2022 From Research to Clinical Settings Water-filtered infrared A irradiation (wIRA) is a special application of infrared A irradiation. Its preferential induction of thermal, but also nonthermal, effects which have a high tissue penetration and low heat load to the skin surface makes wIRA a promising therapeutic method. Since its introduction in […]
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Yoko Kato • Ahmed Ansari Editors 2022 Controversies, Standards and Advances Cerebrovascular surgery, as a specialty, has grown leaps and bounds in this era. Indications of endovascular neurosurgery have grown significantly, though clear indications for open cerebrovascular surgery are very much intact. Proponents of both specialties linger on the pros and cons of their respective […]
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M. Asunción Acosta · Miguel A. Cuesta · Marcos Bruna Editors 2021 Since the first interventions of laparoscopic antireflux surgery in the early 1990 our interest has been the implementation of minimally invasive procedures in all Upper Gastrointestinal (Upper GI) pathology, benign and malignant. Surgeons continually strive to provide the best care possible for their […]
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Satyendra K. Tiwary Editor 2022 Lower limb edema is the commonest peripheral edema affecting the legs, ankle, and foot. The cause may be simple, sometimes like sitting for a long time in a plane or standing for too long in the journey or work. Sometimes, it may be a result of more serious underlying diseases […]
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