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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Edited by Douglas Van Nostrand 2006 A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management The second edition of Thyroid Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management marks the publication of a markedly updated and expanded volume that covers all aspects of the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, initial treatment, and long-term management of all varieties of thyroid cancer. Like the first edition, it will serve […]
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Editor Marco Romanelli 2006 I consider it a great privilege to have been asked to write the foreword for this book. The European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) is less than 10 years old having been founded in 1997. I had the honour of being the first president of this group and have been amazed and delighted at the […]
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