Stilianos E. Kountakis · Joseph B. Jacobs Jan Gosepath (Eds.) 2008 The field of rhinology has rapidly advanced over the last two decades, enabling surgeons to utilize endoscopic techniques and instrumentation to perform the majority of operations within the paranasal sinuses. Despite significant progress with medical management and surgical instrumentation, however, many patients who suffer from chronic sinonasal disease develop recurrences […]
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Edited by Steven Teich Donna A. Caniano 2008 Reoperative surgery is a challenge that is confronted by every surgeon. Although a particular operation may be initially performed with technical skill and followed by appropriate postoperative care, functional and/or anatomic problems may require further surgical attention. The unique circumstances of pediatric patients may predispose them to a greater likelihood of requiring […]
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Sara Blakeley (Ed.) 2008
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Edited by W.-T. Chiu, M.-C. Kao, C.-C. Hung, S.-Z. Lin, H.-J. Chen, S. F. T. Tang, B. Hoffer, Y.-H. Chiang 2008 Neurosurgery treatment is being transformed towards functional recovery, which is the goal of “Reconstructive Neurosurgery”. Initially electro-stimulation was applied to modulate disrupted central nervous system function.
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Evis Sala · Alan H. Freeman · David J. Lomas · Helmut Ringl 2008 Hamilton Bailey, in his time perhaps the foremost teacher of surgery in the English language, described assessment of the acute abdomen in his book, Demonstration of Physical Signs in Clinical Surgery (1960), as follows: Physical signs and their interpretation reach a high pinnacle of importance in […]
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V. Donoghue (Ed.) 2008 This second edition of “Radiological Imaging of the Neonatal Chest” once again gives a detailed update on the clinical management of the various neonatal conditions, with emphasis on the impact of therapeutic interventions on the imaging findings. Antenatal and postnatal imaging of chest malformations is again discussed, together with some controversies regarding postnatal management of […]
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Lawrence S. Chin• William F. Regine Editors 2008 The practice of stereotactic radiosurgery has developed from an unprecedented degree of collaboration among practitioners of neurosurgery, radiation oncology, and medical physics. Because the patients and the diseases that we treat are at the intersection of surgery, radiation, and medical therapy, we felt that a full description of this field […]
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B. Jeremić ∙ S. Pitz (Eds.) 2008 As an extremely rare and benign disease with virtually no lethal outcomes, optic nerve sheath meningioma has traditionally been treated worldwide with different approaches, and without a consensus on both how to diagnose and treat it. With only occasional reports in the literature, and with those reports being predominantly single-institutional experiences […]
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R. Fotter (Ed.) 2008 Never before in the history of pediatric uroradiology have concepts, expert opinions and recommendations changed as significantly and as quickly as over the last 5–7 years. Even established scientific concepts which we thought would never be debated again, are now back on the discussion table.
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Clark A. Rosen C. Blake Simpson 2008 The field of laryngeal surgery for voice and airway pathologic conditions has dramatically changed over the last 20 years, and the impetus for this book was to reflect these major paradigm shifts, and bring together in one place essential information on the rapidly growing and changing field of laryngeal surgery. The book was […]
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