Edited by LINDA B. MONGERO JAMES R. BECK 2008 Advanced Perfusion Techniques With the introduction of cardiac surgery more than five decades ago, and the use of the heart-lung machine for open heart surgical procedures granting the surgeon unlimited time in which to operate inside the heart, a complex task has been given to the perfusionist. Initially, cardiopulmonary bypass […]
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RICHARD PRAYSON 2008 The scope of neuropathology continues to expand, as evidenced by increasing numbers of multivolume and specialty texts, which have been published in recent years. For those in the neuroscience disciplines, the ever increasing amount of information one needs to assimilate and master can be challenging and even at times daunting.
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Martino Ruggieri Ignacio Pascual-Castroviejo Concezio Di Rocco (Eds.) 2008 Phakomatoses and Hamartoneoplastic Syndromes This book sees the light of day after more than 5-year “gestation”. The idea behind it originated in the early 2000’ and was originally inspired by the superb manual (published in 1987) by the late professor Manuel Rodriguez Gomez (Neurocutaneous Disorders. A Practical Approach. […]
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Edited by William S. Pietrzak 2008 Biological Materials and Methods The repair of musculoskeletal tissue is a vital concern of all surgical specialties, most notably orthopedics and related disciplines. While many of the surgical techniques in current use have their basis in methods that have been historically practiced, we now stand on the cusp of a revolution in […]
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Georg E. Cold ⋅ Niels Juul (Eds.) 2008 Everyone interested in neuroanaesthesia talks about intracranial pressure (ICP), but in daily clinical practice nobody measures it during craniotomy. This was our view ten years ago, when Dr. Cold was asked by an international congress to make a speech with the title: Is hyperventilation mandatory during craniotomy? Panic triggered our intellectual […]
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Alberto Rosenblatt Renaud Bollens Baldo Espinoza Cohen 2008 The excitement of moving into the field of laparoscopic surgery can be quickly overshadowed by the realization of how long it takes to acquire the skills needed to master the technique. Indeed, laparoscopic surgery requires a very good knowledge of anatomy as well as fairly good manual dexterity.
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Jorge L. Alió · Dimitri T. Azar (Eds.) 2008 The reader will find in this book a modern perspective on complications in refractive surgery. The environment and the perspective of the topic have been changing continuously in the last 10 years, most notably in the last 5 years. Many traditional complications such as flap complications are now in decline, whereas […]
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M. Forsting · I. Wanke (Eds.) 2008 From Diagnostic Work-Up to Endovascular Therapy Four years after its first edition, we are happy to present the second edition of our book on diagnostic imaging and endovascular therapy of vascular malformations. The need for a second edition within a relatively short period of time indicates that interventional neuroradiology and knowledge […]
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Michael Torzewski, Karl J. Lackner, Jürgen Bohl, Clemens Sommer 2008 Cytologic examination of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a technically simple but productive diagnostic procedure. Its proper performance demands considerable expertise, but it can nevertheless be accomplished relatively rapidly and inexpensively. Therefore, it may be helpful for physicians and also technicians to obtain images of routinely prepared CSF slides […]
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M. Eisenmann-Klein · C. Neuhann-Lorenz (Eds.) 2008 “It is now Monday and we are in the second week of creation” Peter Sloterdijk just recently stated in his prize award speech for innovative publication management. Nanotechnology, biotechnology and gene technology are revolutionizing our scientific world as much as our every day life – comparable only to the changes at […]
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