Udaya Kumar and Inderbir S. Gill (Editors) 2007 Surgical skills are learned by observation and apprenticeship over time. While most surgical textbooks describe the “standard” methods of performing a particular operation, all students of surgery are well aware that wide differences exist between surgeons in performing the same procedure or maneuver.
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J. Haslam and J. Laycock (Eds.) 2007 Pelvic Organ Disorders Due to the World Health Organisation, International Continence Society, many other societies, and several government initiatives, patients with bowel and bladder disorders world wide should now expect improved standards of care. These organisations have pooled research and clinical expertise contributing to a multi-professional approach in treating many pelvic floor […]
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Piergiorgio Tozzi 2007 Secrets for Success When doctors first look at sutureless anastomosis devices created by new technologies, the most frequent comment is how amazingly easy it is to create a vascular anastomosis and, as a direct consequence, they believe anybody could play the role of the cardiovascular surgeon. Pessimistic cardiovascular surgeons, on their side, think that creating a […]
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Edited by Mark J. Jackson Waqar Ahmed 2007 Medical devices and surgical tools that contain micro and nanoscale features allow surgeons to perform clinical procedures with greater precision and safety in addition to monitoring physiological and biomechanical parameters more accurately. While surgeons have started to master the use of nanostructured surgical tools in the operating room, the impact and interaction […]
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J. W. M. Van Goethem · L. van den Hauwe P. M. Parizel (Eds.) 2007 Diagnostic Imaging of the Spine and Spinal Cord Diseases of the spine are very common. They affect up to 80% of the population worldwide and may cause pain, disability and economic loss. Pain or discomfort originating in the spine is usually a self-limiting […]
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A. Lerner · D. Reis · M. Soudry 2007 Staged Treatment The treatment of severe locomotor system trauma has a long tradition in our hospital, the Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, the only tertiary hospital in the north of Israel covering a population of almost 2 million citizens. Our hospital lies less than 20 min helicopter flying time from the border, […]
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Eugene N. Myers · Robert L. Ferris (Eds.) 2007 The management of salivary disorders encompasses a broad array of both benign and malignant diseases. We felt that a detailed text addressing this topic has been needed for some time. The book begins with chapters such as diagnostic approaches based on clinical, radiographic, and pathologic assessment of salivary gland disorders.
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Vipul R. Patel (Ed.) 2007 Surgery has traditionally been a specialty within the medical profession that has revolved around invasive procedures to treat various maladies. Initially, trauma induced by a therapeutic procedure was necessary and reasonable to provide benefit to the patient.
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Volker Schumpelick Robert J. Fitzgibbons (Eds.) 2007 Prevention and Treatment The field of hernia surgery has changed markedly within the past decade. Today, every patient and every surgeon has the choice between various techniques and devices to repair inguinal, incisional or hiatal hernias. Lots of publications confirm, that most of them can be applied with success. The overall […]
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Massimo Gallucci • Silvia Capoccia • Alessia Catalucci 2007 I have been meaning to publish an atlas of neuroradiologic cranio-encephalic anatomy for at least the last decade. Normal anatomy has always been of great and charming interest to me. Over the years, while preparing lectures for my students, I have always enjoyed lingering on anatomical details that […]
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