M. Memet Özek • Giuseppe Cinalli • Wirginia J. Maixner 2008 Management and Outcome This book presents the current understanding, diagnosis and treatment of spina bifida and related pathologies to the neurosurgical literature. The book has two important qualities: first of all it provides a thorough analysis of the historical experience in the field, and secondly it presents […]
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Carol E.H. Scott-Conner Editor 2008 Case Studies in Minimal Access Surgery This book is all about choices and alternatives. Its purpose is to explore different approaches in minimal access surgery. The order of the chapters follows that of The SAGES Manual: Fundamentals of Laparoscopy, Thoracoscopy, and GI Endoscopy, beginning with the basic question of how to access the abdomen […]
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Ninh T. Nguyen Eric J. DeMaria Sayeed Ikramuddin Matthew M. Hutter Editors 2008 A Practical Guide to Bariatric Surgery The field of bariatric surgery has grown at an exponential rate over the past decade. The number of bariatric operations has increased from less than 10,000 operations in 1998 to nearly 200,000 operations in 2008. Bariatric surgery has become […]
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Hashim Hashim, Paul Abrams, and Roger Dmochowski (Eds.) 2008 Time constraints on the undergraduate curriculum and changes in patients’ attitudes have resulted in medical students and doctors-in-training receiving reduced formal teaching and acquiring fewer practical skills than their predecessors. This can mean that many doctors have very limited experience of even the common diagnostic tests and surgical procedures that […]
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Leonid N. Solomin 2008 This book is the first comprehensive text on the Ilizarov method to come from Russia since Professor Ilizarov passed away in 1992.The text covers both acute traumatic reconstruction with the Ilizarov method and orthopaedic reconstruction with the Ilizarov techniques. The authors unique method of cross-sectional anatomy evaluation improves the safety of pin and wire […]
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Sajeesh Kumar Jacques Marescaux (Eds.) 2008 Developments in telesurgery are progressing at great speed. As a consequence, there is need for a broad overview of the field. This first-ever book on telesurgery is presented in such a way that should make it accessible to anyone, independent of his or her knowledge of technology. The text is designed to […]
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Matthias Harders 2008 Recent changes in patient awareness and acceptance of adverse effects in medicine and an increasing focus on patient safety have put traditional educational paradigms in the medical area to the test. Related to this, the great potential of training approaches using virtual reality (VR) techniques in surgical education has been recognized for a long time.
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Norbert Boos · Max Aebi (Editors) 2008 Fundamentals of Diagnosis and Treatment Spinal disorders are among the most common medical conditions, having a significant impact on health-related quality of life, use of health care resources and socioeconomic costs. As a therapeutic measure, spinal surgery is still one of the most rapidly growing areas in clinical medicine, and is […]
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Melvin A. Shiffman · Sid J. Mirrafati Samuel M. Lam (Editors) 2008 Facial rejuvenation is the art and science of improving the aesthetics of the face, scalp, and neck areas to give a more youthful appearance. For many years the standard has been a full facelift with various methods of superficial musculoaponeurotic system tightening as well as chemical […]
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Hubert John · Peter Wiklund (Eds.) 2008 Urology has traditionally been a technically driven specialty. Minimally invasive surgical procedures aim to reduce collateral surgical damage while optimizing functional and oncological results. Improvement of magnification, 3D imaging, articulated instruments, depth perception, and precise motor control are prerequisites to achieve these goals.
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