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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Ernest L.Mazzaferri, Clive Harmer, Ujjal K.Mallick and Pat Kendall-Taylor (Eds) 2006 A Multidisciplinary Approach This book is intended for practitioners who manage patients with thyroid cancer and students who are learning about the disease. It aims to provide practical information about this diverse group of tumors to physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare providers involved in the day-to-day management […]
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Redento Mora (Ed.) 2006 Diagnosis and treatment with compression-distraction techniques Expressions such as “compression-distraction techniques”, “transosseous osteosynthesis methods”, and “circular external fixation”, born in past decades in the former Soviet Union, are interchangeable and will be used in this book without distinguishing between them. Moreover, the term “screw” is used throughout this volume instead of “fiche”, as established in the […]
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J. M. Brown · M. P. Mehta · C. Nieder (Eds.) 2006 Over the last century, the curative potential of radiation therapy for solid tumors has increased. Despite these advances there are major challenges to further improvements that result from the complexities of human tumors that are often not simulated in preclinical models.
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L.Van Hoe · D.Vanbeckevoort K.Mermuys · W.Van Steenbergen 2006 Atlas with Cross-Sectional Imaging Correlation When we started preparing the first edition of this book in 1998, MR cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) was a newly developed technique successful only on high-end MRI machines equipped with strong gradients. Now, in 2005, most MRI units are capable of providing high quality images of the upper abdomen, and […]
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C. Stroszczynski (Ed.) 2006
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T. A. Larheim P.-L.Westesson 2006 There are substantial textbooks on head and neck imaging as well as on dental imaging, but since the early 1990s there has been no book focusing on the gap between imaging in dentistry and in medicine, namely maxillofacial imaging. Emanating from dentistry, maxillofacial radiology uses principles and techniques from medical radiology.
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Mark K. Ferguson and M. Brian Fennerty (Eds) 2006 Although GERD was initially described in the early 19th century, it is essentially a consequence of our modern day largesse. Dietary factors and associated obesity have combined with as yet other unknown factors (e.g. a decrease in the prevalence of H. pylori?) to make GERD one of the most […]
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I. Ross McDougall 2006 After my early training in medicine, I was invited to join Professor Edward McGirr at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow Scotland. Two of the main interests in his department were thyroid and isotopic medicine. At that time, 1969, the term isotopic medicine had been changed to Nuclear Medicine in the United States; thus, I […]
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