T. Metin Önerci 2010 In preparing the material for this book, I took the advice of my students who generously shared their views and opinions with me. I was told that it would be preferable to have images of the various diseases with legends describing the disease. Students would be able to learn and retain the information more […]

Hans-Christoph Pape ● Andrew B. Peitzman C. William Schwab ● Peter V. Giannoudis Editors 2010 The sustained improvements in the observed survival rates of polytrauma patients within the last two decades are attributable to multiple factors. While advances in rescue and intensive care management have been widely recognized in the past, the dramatic management changes performed regarding surgical […]

Can Baykal 2010 Books concerning regional approaches to dermatological diseases always create great enthusiasm among physicians, and can be very useful resources for dermatologists. Lesions on the nose and ears are commonly observed in daily clinical practice. Thanks to their prominent location, they are noticed earlier by the patients; therefore, patients very frequently seek earlier medical attention.

Nicolas Hardt Johannes Kuttenberger 2010 Diagnosis and Management Facial fractures, particularly those resulting from severe injuries with multiple fractures in the cranio-maxillo-facial region, are the most common form of neurocranial injuries (Hausamen and Schmidseder 1975; Machtens 1987; Brachvogel et al. 1991; Wahlmann and Wagner 1991).

Paolo Cappabianca • Luigi Califano Giorgio Iaconetta Editors 2010 We belong to a lucky and happy generation, living during a period of many dramatic, if not revolutionary, technical and technological innovations, such as the digital era, which have changed and improved our routine surgical practice, together with the quality and quantity of life of our patients.

Marc Garbey  Barbara Lee Bass Christophe Collet  Michel de Mathelin Roger Tran-Son-Tay Editors 2010 The future of surgery is intrinsically linked to the future of computational sciences: the medical act will be computer assisted at every single step, from planning to post-surgery recovery and through the surgical procedure itself.

Julius M. Guccione · Ghassan S. Kassab ·Mark B. Ratcliffe Editors 2010 Modeling and Applications in Heart Failure The ultimate aspiration of this book is to promote the application of computational cardiovascular mechanics models to clinical medicine. Patient-specific computational models can aid medical diagnosis and help design optimal treatment for cardiovascular disease.

Reza Ghavamian 2010 There has been an explosion in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in urology. As surgical subspecialists, urologists were slow to embrace minimally invasive surgery at its inception. However, in the last decade, the interest in MIS has grown exponentially in urology.

Hiko Hyakusoku · Dennis P. Orgill Luc Téot · Julian J. Pribaz Rei Ogawa (Eds.) 2010 Reconstructive surgery of burns, especially of extensive burns, is a topic that requires the ideas and inspiration of plastic surgeons. Traditionally, it is considered that almost all burn wounds can be reconstructed using simple skin grafting.