Andreas H. Mahnken · Jens Ricke (Eds.) 2009 Interventional radiology has become a most attractive subspecialty in radiology owing to continuous growth over the past 30 years. New instruments, innovative techniques, and new imaging modalities were the basis of such a remarkable development. Computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and ultrasound have emerged as important techniques for nonvascular […]
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Paolo Pavone • Massimo Fioranelli • David A. Dowe 2009 Coronary CT angiography (CTA) is rapidly changing the patient-care algorithms used to detect coronary artery disease, as well as the approach we take in risk-factor assessment and in the triage of patients. The rapid adoption of coronary CTA into clinical practice has been fueled by significant yearly advances in […]
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Andrew N. Redington Glen S. Van Arsdell Robert H. Anderson Editors 2009 Ten years ago it was fashionable, and largely correct, to say that the right heart had been ignored in terms of its functional contribution to the circulation in acquired and congenital heart disease. While it remains a popular characterization, our understanding of right heart hemodynamics, […]
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Christian Seiler 2009 The sober explanation for this book is a call by the Springer-Verlag, London, to edit a publication on ‘The functional relevance of the collateral circulation’ of the heart. Alternatively, it could be ‘sold’ as the result of my intention to reduce entropy of 18 years of scientific work on the topic of […]
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Rita Joarder · Neil Crundwell Editors 2009 The chest radiograph (chest X-ray) is the most commonly requested examination, and it is probably the hardest plain film to interpret correctly. Accurate interpretation can greatly influence patient management in the acute setting.
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Hugues Duffau Editor 2011 From Neural Basis of Cognition to Surgical Applications In order to achieve optimal precision and safety in the operating room, a surgeon needs to understand not only the shape and vasculature of an organ but also the function of its parts. Classic surgical textbooks offer exquisite and definitive detail of functional anatomy for most organ systems.
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Shan R. Baker 2011 This textbook provides an in-depth discussion of all aspects of nasal reconstruction. Like the first edition, it is designed to be a “working man’s” manual for repair of cutaneous defects of the nose, providing practical and effective methods of reconstructing skin defects in a variety of sizes, configurations, and locations.
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David C. Madoff • Masatoshi Makuuchi Masato Nagino • Jean-Nicolas Vauthey Editors 2011 Radiologic and Surgical Practice Until recently, patients with primary and metastatic liver cancer had dismal prognoses. However, with improvements in screening, detection, and therapeutics, the paradigms for managing these patients have shifted dramatically.
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Editors George Geroulakos, Bauer Sumpio 2011 The third edition updated most chapters that were focusing on the endovascular management of arterial and venous disease providing the reader with practical and updated, wellreferenced information on the full spectrum of options for the management of vascular disease.
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Wilhelm Schäberle 2011 A Therapy-Oriented Textbook and Atlas The longer and the more intensively one has been working with medical imaging, the more questions of a broader, more general kind one is confronted with: How well does the image represent the truth? Can our interpretation of the imaging findings explain the patient’s disease? Which imaging appearances mean that […]
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