S. Bert Litwin 2007 Because of the wide variety of anomalies encountered in congenital heart surgery, a broad understanding of the pathologic anatomy of defects is vitally important to the surgeon. More than in many other fields of surgery, a feel for three-dimensional spatial relationships of anomalies is helpful in allowing the operating surgeon to improvise technical details of […]
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Edited by David F. Penson John T. Wei 2007 Clinical research is the branch of scientific endeavor devoted to the evaluation of patients and the analysis of associated health outcomes. These analyses serve to identify potential areas for change in physician or patient behavior or in clinical processes.
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C. Stippich (Ed.) 2007 Presurgical Functional Neuroimaging Over the past decade, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has undergone a continuing process of technical and methodological maturation and refinement, facilitating its application in a clinical environment. One of the earliest and best validated clinical applications of fMRI was, and remains, presurgical assessment of brain function in patients with brain tumors and […]
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Edited by RILEY J. WILLIAMS III 2007 It is with great pleasure that I present the first edition of Cartilage Repair Strategies. Over the past two decades, interest in the area of cartilage reconstruction has grown rapidly. I hoped to harness this great enthusiasm by inviting experts throughout the field to contribute to this comprehensive text.
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R. Luchetti · P. Amadio (Eds.) 2007 Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common hand problem, affecting as much as 5% of the adult population; yet in the large majority of cases, the condition is idiopathic. While surgical treatment often results in improvement, residual loss of function and some persistence of symptoms are common.
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Joep Perk, Peter Mathes, Helmut Gohlke, Catherine Monpère, Irene Hellemans, Hannah McGee, Philippe Sellier, and Hugo Saner, Editors 2007 Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD) has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality, morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has profoundly changed […]
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Mauricio de Maio & Berthold Rzany 2007 Why another book on botulinum toxin in aesthetic medicine? There are a couple of reasons. First: the main reason is the tremendous progress that we are seeing in the use of this drug, which rapidly outstrips the present literature. Second: we still think there is a need for good books as […]
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R. K. Weber, R.Keerl, S. D. Schaefer, R. C. Della Rocca (Eds.) 2007 To dry people’s eyes – that’s one of the great challenges in lacrimal surgery. Different localizations of the stenosis, lesions after tumor surgery or trauma, and epiphora in children or adults are different conditions that need various operative procedures to treat a […]
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Editor Christoph Stein 2007 Analgesics are among the oldest drugs described, albeit not necessarily for medicinal use. For example, the Sumerians isolated opioids (probably for their euphoric effects) in the third millennium b.c. and the use of willow bark (salicin) for fever was first reported in the eighteenth century.
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Dimitrije E. Panfilov (Ed.) 2007 Where there is an enthusiast, this is the top of the World. I hope, that our readers will feel the inspired raptures with which all my co-authors have contributed to this book. They have given their best advices in the fields where they are especially successful, with all their tips and tricks.
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