Edited by J.T. Hoff, R.F. Keep, G. Xi, and Y. Hua (eds.) 2006 The XIII International Symposium on Brain Edema and Tissue Injury was held June 1–3, 2005, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. This volume includes papers presented at the symposium as well as papers that were presented at a satellite Intracerebral Hemorrhage Conference on June 4, 2005.
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T. SCARABINO • U. SALVOLINI F. DI SALLE • H. DUVERNOY • P. RABISCHONG 2006 The recent advances in neuroimaging techniques, particularly magnetic resonance (MR), have greatly improved our knowledge of brain anatomy and related brain function. Morphological and functional investigations of the brain using high-definition MR have made detailed study of the brain possible and provided new data […]
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Guo-Wei He (Ed.) 2006 Coronary artery disease remains the major cause of mortality worldwide. Despite aggressive application of percutaneous coronary interventions, the surgical approach, namely coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), remains a major approach for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
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Alexander M. Holschneider · John M. Hutson Editors 2006 Embryology, Diagnosis, Surgical Treatment, Follow-up This multiauthor book is an update on the science and surgery of malformations of the rectum and anus. It carries on Douglas Stephens’ book “Congenital Malformations of the Rectum, Anus, and Genito-urinary Tracts” published in 1963.
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Edited by J.W. Chang, Y. Katayama, and T. Yamamoto 2006 This supplement of Acta Neurochirurgica is the fourth in the series of proceedings covering the official biennial conferences of the Neurorehabilitation Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) in connection with the 1st congress of the International Society of Reconstructive Neurosurgery (ISRN) which was held in Seoul in September […]
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Edited by J.D. Pickard 2006 As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons, we began to publish in 1974 this series of Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. This series was first discussed in 1972 at a combined meeting of the Italian and German Neurosurgical […]
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R.G.Gonzalez, J.A.Hirsch W.J.Koroshetz, M.H. Lev P. Schaefer (Eds.) 2006 Imaging and Intervention Acute ischemic stroke is treatable. Rapidly evolving imaging technology is revolutionizing the management of the acute stroke patient, and the field of acute stroke therapy is undergoing positive change.
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P. Lefere · S. Gryspeerdt (Eds.) 2006 A Practical Guide Virtual colonoscopy or computed tomographic (CT) colonography is a recent radiological technique enabling detection of tumoral lesions in the colon. As in the past two decades its radiological predecessor, double-contrast barium enema (DCBE), has lost most of its adherents, CT colonography constitutes a real opportunity for gastrointestinal radiologists to […]
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J. Golzarian · S. Sun · M. J. Sharafuddin (Eds.) 2006 Volume 2 Oncology, Trauma, Gene Therapy, Vascular Malformations, and Neck Therapeutic embolization has now become a major part of modern interventional practice, and its applications have become an integral component of the modern multimodality management paradigms in trauma, gastrointestinal hemorrhage and oncology, and the endovascular therapy of vascular […]
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Christine Chaponnier Alexis Desmouliere Giulio Gabbiani 2006 Thirty-four years after the first description of the myofibroblast, the number of publications concerning this cell is very impressive and continuously expanding, and the work on the myofibroblast involves many laboratories throughout the world. The myofibroblast has been implicated in developmental and physiological phenomena, as well as in a variety of pathological situations, […]
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