Branislav Jeremic´ Editor 2011 Lung cancer is the cancer with the highest incidence (1.61 million cases in 2008; 12.7% total cancer cases) and is the major cancer killer in both sexes across the world (1.38 million deaths in 2008; 18.2% of total cancer mortality). Due to moving tobacco industry focus from developed to a developing world, more than 50% […]
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Yves-Gérard Illouz • Aris Sterodimas Editors 2011 In the last decades, investments in basic research have yielded extensive knowledge about the many and complex processes involved in the development of an organism. Since human pluripotent stem cells were first isolated, research on stem cells has received much public attention, both because of its extraordinary promise […]
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John P. Adams • Dominic Bell • Justin McKinlay (eds.) 2010 A Guide to Practical Management Brain injury is a worldwide leading cause of mortality and morbidity and requires early and appropriate management to minimize these adverse sequelae. Despite such needs, access to specialist centers is limited, forcing both immediate and secondary care of these patients onto generalist […]
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Karol Miller Poul M.F. Nielsen Editors 2010 A novel partnership between surgeons and machines, made possible by advances in computing and engineering technology, could overcome many of the limitations of traditional surgery. By extending surgeons’ ability to plan and carry out surgical interventions more accurately and with less trauma, computer-integrated surgery (CIS) systems could help to improve clinical outcomes […]
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Edited by Z. Czernicki, A. Baethmann, U. Ito, Y. Katayama, T. Kuroiwa, D. Mendelow 2010 The XIV International Symposium on Brain Edema and Brain Tissue Injury took place in Warsaw, Poland, on 11–14 June 2008. Two prominent members of the International Society for Brain Edema: Dr. Igor Klatzo and Dr. Julien Hoff have passed away after the last […]
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Behrooz A. Akbarnia Muharrem Yazici George H. Thompson (Eds.) 2010 Management of Spinal Disorders in Young Children Early onset scoliosis (EOS) is a major topic in pediatric spine deformity today. These challenging deformities occur in almost all differential diagnostic categories. Unfortunately, each diagnosis has a different natural history, making it even more demanding. This is the first textbook […]
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John Rombeau • Amy Goldberg Catherine Loveland-Jones 2010 The relationship between a senior surgeon (mentor) and his or her protégé (mentee) is like no other; thus, mentors are acknowledged more in surgery than perhaps any other medical discipline. One of the reasons surgical mentors are so highly respected is that we want to emulate them.
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Edited by Aki Laakso, Juha Hernesniemi, Yasuhiro Yonekawa, Tetsuya Tsukahara 2010 In July 2008, European and Japanese specialists in neurosurgery, neurology, interventional neuroradiology, and neurointensive care joined together to discuss the latest developments in the management of cerebrovascular disorders for the fourth time. The 4th European Japanese Joint Conference on Stroke Surgery (formerly Swiss Japanese Joint Conference on […]
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Edited by John M. O’Donnell Flávio E. Nácul 2010 We are honored to present the second edition of Surgical Intensive Care Medicine. Our first edition was considered to be an important contribution to the critical care literature and received excellent reviews from Critical Care Medicine, Chest, and Anesthesiology. In the second edition, the basic organization of the […]
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Ramón Ribes · Pedro J. Aranda John Giba 2010 Writing a book on such a broad topic as “Surgical English” is probably as bold as talking about “the history of the Roman Empire.” However, the broad scope of this book is offset by its simple approach and realistic goals.
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