Occult Spinal Dysraphism

Occult Spinal Dysraphism-1

Editors: R. Shane Tubbs, Rod J. Oskouian, Jeffrey P. Blount, W. Jerry Oakes 2019 Our knowledge of the occult spinal dysraphisms has evolved significantly since the first observations of the various manifestations of this term. Spinal dysraphisms, in general, have been observed and studied by many greats in the history of medicine including Morgagni and […]

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Atlas of Adrenal Surgery

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Editor Alexander Shifrin 2019 Minimally invasive surgery has become the standard-of-care approach for the treatment of adrenal tumors. As with cholecystectomies, current surgical approach for most adrenalectomies is performed either by anterior-lateral laparoscopic or by posterior retroperitoneoscopic approaches. The Atlas of Adrenal Surgery is designed to illustrate different techniques on how to perform successful adrenalectomies […]

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Evidence-Based Surgery

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Editors: Achilles Thoma, Sheila Sprague, Sophocles H. Voineskos, Charles H. Goldsmith 2019 A Guide to Understanding and Interpreting the Surgical Literature The terms Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Evidence-Based Surgery (EBS) are ubiquitous now. With very few exceptions, however, most surgeons who use these terms do not have a good grasp of the meaning of these […]

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Contemporary Management of Temporomandibular Disorders. Non-Surgical Treatment

Contemporary Management of Temporomandibular Disorders Non-Surgical Treatment-1

Editors: S. Thaddeus Connelly Gianluca Martino Tartaglia Rebeka G. Silva 2019 The editors and contributors to this text find the study of temporomandibular joint disorders to be strikingly interesting and interlinked with many other fields, such as rheumatology, imaging, pain management, mental health, neuroscience, rehabilitation, dentistry, and surgery. We are all innovators in our own way, […]

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Abdominal Wall Surgery

Abdominal Wall Surgery-1

Dalila Patrizia Greco • Elio Borgonovi Editors 2019 How Reimbursement Systems Can Change Surgical Evolution One of the main critical issues concerning health protection in modern systems is the development of parallel worlds unable to speak and understand each other: medical doctors, healthcare professionals, managers and policy-makers. Doctors are focused on the development of scientific […]

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Coloproctology

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Alexander Herold • Paul-Antoine Lehur Klaus E. Matzel • P. Ronan O’Connell Editors 2017 This book forms the latest addition to the European Manual series published by Springer, and is the  second edition of the European Manual of Coloproctology. It will be the first standard and  recommended textbook of the European Society of Coloproctology. The […]

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Abdominal Neuroendocrine Tumors

Abdominal Neuroendocrine Tumors-1

Massimo Carlini Editor 2018 Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are rare neoplasms if compared to the corresponding exocrine tumors, but their incidence has been increasing in recent decades and surgeons caring for cancer patients may have already faced or will no doubt face, at some point in their careers, the challenge of managing a case of NET. A heterogeneous group of […]

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