Marcello D. Bronstein Editor 2011 Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment I usually say to my residents that when I was a resident myself, I was much more confident at diagnosing and treating Cushing’s syndrome than I am today! This statement aims at pointing out that the deeper you go in dealing with clinical, laboratorial, and image aspects of […]
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Brooke Swearingen ● Beverly M.K. Biller Editors 2011 Investigations into the etiology and manifestations of Cushing’s disease have served as a model for basic and clinical research in both endocrinology and neurosurgery since Cushing’s original monograph in 1932. He worked from careful clinical observation back to underlying pathology; others, including Fuller Albright, elucidated the fundamentalhormonal mechanisms.
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Chung How Kau • Kenneth Abramovitch Sherif Galal Kamel • Marko Bozic 2011 This book is dedicated to the memory of the three anonymous individuals whose cadaver prosections are the subject matter of this atlas. We are deeply respectful of and indebted to these anonymous individuals. They unknowingly have made a donation to science that will benefit students […]
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Joseph C. Anderson ● Charles J. Kahi Editors 2011 Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major clinical and public health challenge; it is the third most common cancer and second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Yet, CRC is a largely preventable disease. It has a long latency period, and it may be several years before […]
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Nicholas C. Gourtsoyiannis (Editor) 2011 Why, How, When In the modern era of evidence-based medicine, where radiologists are asked to act as integrators for clinical decisions, the strengths and limitations of MR Imaging applications to abdominal diseases need to be properly chartered, adequately explained and understood and thoroughly taken into consideration, when providing the most appropriate method of imaging […]
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Editors Pere Ginès, Patrick S. Kamath, Vicente Arroyo 2011 Chronic liver failure is a frequent event in clinical practice. For people aged between 18 and 55 years, it ranks eighth as the cause of death and is the most common reason for hospital admission in gastroenterology or liver units and the main indication for liver transplantation.
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Josef Niebauer (Editor) 2011 Cardiac diseases are still the leading causes of death in industrialized countries. They also induce considerable harm to survivors and often lead to severe and irreversible physical and neurological disabilities.
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Peter P. Urban • Louis R. Caplan (Editors) 2011 Brainstem disorders may result in a broad spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms ranging from isolated signs, including vertigo, gait unsteadiness, and double vision, to complex clinical syndromes and life-threatening situations, such as basilar artery thrombosis.
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Robert S. Bonser • Domenico Pagano Axel Haverich (Editors) 2011 Volume 1 We welcome the reader to the Monographs in Cardiac Surgery series. These monographs have the objective to fully summarize the information available to date regarding particular facets of cardiac surgery – indications, operative techniques, pre-operative care, post-operative outcomes – so that the reader can have a […]
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Richard T. Maziarz Susan Slater Editors 2011 Comprehensive Guide for Patient Care Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has experienced a dramatic increase of activity over the past decade with a continued marked escalation of procedures projected over the next ten to fifteen years.
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