Dakshesh H. Parikh • David C.G. Crabbe Alexander W. Auldist • Steven S. Rothenberg Editors 2009 Most pediatric surgeons operate on the chest. Some operate with confidence, some with trepidation. The concept behind this project was to publish a comprehensive textbook of pediatric thoracic surgery that would assist surgeons in both groups. The book includes forty seven chapters […]
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Zacharias Zachariou (Ed.) 2009 A discipline for childcare must remain young, responsive, and flexible. This flexibility has to be sustained in order for pediatric surgeons to establish their position, which lies in the fields of both pediatrics and surgery. The concept of this book is to break down barriers and to enable young physicians to look up everyday questions […]
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Editors José Cañadell · Mikel San-Julian 2009 In the last 30 years, the outcomes achieved with patients affected by malignant bone tumours have improved dramatically. Better knowledge of the disease, improvement of imaging methods, new surgical techniques and particularly the advent of chemotherapy have rought about unanticipated therapeutic successes in this kind of patient.
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Edited by Manickam Ramalingam Vipul R. Patel 2009 Laparoscopic urology has become routine in many centers for ablative procedures such as radical nephrectomy. Uro-oncologic procedures such as adrenalectomy, partial nephrectomy, nephroureterectomy, retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, radical cystectomy, and radical prostatectomy are done by skilled laparoscopic urologists in a few centers.
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Joanne R. Festa Ronald M. Lazar Editors 2009 Working in stroke and critical care at a large academic medical center, I examine and study patients with large and small-vessel stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, hemodynamic compromise from carotid disease, and major cardiac conditions. Because of the nature of this setting, my colleagues ask questions less about the characterization of cognitive deficits […]
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Vee P. Prasher Editor 2009 Up to the early 1980s neuropsychological assessments of persons with intellectual disability (ID) usually meant an assessment for developmental delay, of intelligence (intelligence quotient testing) or of level of adaptive behavior. Popular tests included the Stanford-Binet, Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Bayley Scales of Infant Development, the Griffin Mental Developmental Scales, and the Vineland Social Maturity […]
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M. F. Reiser ∙ C. R. Becker ∙ K. Nikolaou G. Glazer (Eds.) 2009 Multi-detector row technology has become an established CT imaging modality worldwide. Nowadays, clinical applications such as multi-detector row CT angiography, and in particular cardiac CT, assume greater importance in daily routine. Furthermore, the scope of multi detector row CT applications has expanded and requires […]
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Andrea Renda 2009 Many surgeons are confronted with cancer patients who have already been treated for another malignant neoplasm or who have a lesion formerly considered to be a metastasis but subsequently recognized as a new primary tumor. In other cases, individuals who have been cured of one cancer (i.e., of the digestive tract or breast) may later present […]
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Burak Ozgur l Edward Benzel l Steven Garfin Editors 2009 A Practical Guide to Anatomy and Techniques The use of minimally invasive spine surgical principles and techniques is rapidly escalating. It is finding its way, to one degree or another, into the practice of many spine surgeons. The enthusiasm for its use, on the part of both […]
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Devendra K Gupta 2009 This book has been written to assist not only postgraduate students, but also interested dermatologists, general practitioners, and surgeons. During the last two decades, various surgical therapies have been used in the treatment of stable refractory vitiligo, but none of them became very popular because of their intrinsic drawbacks, and thus could not be adopted […]
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