Moshe Schein • Paul N. Rogers • Ahmad Assalia (Editors) 2009 An unconventional book for trainees and thinking surgeons We are proud to present the third edition of this book, which since it first appeared almost 10 years ago, has become a favorite with surgeons having to deal with emergency abdominal surgery. Is there anything new in this […]
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Amulya K. Saxena · Michael E. Höllwarth (Eds.) 2009 General pediatric surgery has undergone a revolutionary change in the last decade, with the widespread acceptance and adoption of endoscopic surgery in the neonatal, pediatric and adolescent age groups.
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A. McLuckie 2009
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Thomas P. Naidich, Henri M. Duvernoy, Bradley N. Delman, A. Gregory Sorensen, Spyros S. Kollias and E. Mark Haacke 2009
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T. Moritani S. Ekholm P.-L. Westesson 2009 Th is book is the result of many years of clinical and academic interest in diffusion-weighted MR (DW) imaging of the brain. Researchers and clinicians at the University of Rochester started to collect DW images of a spectrum of abnormalities affecting the brain immediately after this technique became available.
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Jean Krutmann • Herbert Hönigsmann Craig A. Elmets (Eds.) 2009 During the past 30 years, phototherapy has greatly influenced treatment concepts in dermatology. Consequently, photomedicine has developed from empiricism into one of the most exciting fields in biomedical research. Studies on the effects of visible and ultraviolet radiation on skin have led to a fruitful collaboration between basic […]
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Ali Altalag, Jeremy Road, and Pearce Wilcox 2009 The volume of expelled air is believed to have been first measured by Galen in about 150 AD. However, it was not until the mid-1800s that Hutchinson designed a spirometer, very similar to the ones used today, which allowed routine measurement of exhaled lung volume.Finally, in 1969 Dubois designed the plethysmograph, which […]
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Edited by Gopal H. Badlani G. Willy Davila Martin C. Michel Jean J.M.C.H. de la Rosette 2009 Current Concepts and Treatment Strategies When we first met to consider a proposal to put together a book on urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, the obvious question was “why another book.” The answer was not easy but a need was perceived […]
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Mary O’Brien 2009 “Know the ideal beautiful normal. Diagnose what is present; what is diseased, destroyed, displaced or distorted; and what is in excess. Then, guided by the normal in your mind’s eye, use what you have to make what you want- and when possible go for even better than what would have been.”
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Edited by Osamu Ukimura Inderbir S. Gill 2009 Ultrasonography has evolved from a branch of acoustics that deals with the study and use of sound waves to an important clinical modality in assessing varied structures and organ systems throughout the body. Much of the work began in the 1940s after World War II by examining intracranial abnormalities, and later intrathoracic […]
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