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 […]

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, […]

Editors: Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Calvin Sze Hang Ng, Gaetano Rocco, Thomas A. D’Amico 2019

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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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 […]

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 […]

Luc Téot • Thomas A. Mustoe • Esther Middelkoop Gerd G. Gauglitz Editors 2020 State of the Art Management and Emerging Technologies Scars represent the indelible cutaneous signature of aggression, surgery, traumas, and other events occurring during life. Most of them cause no problem, but some of them become sources of social exclusion, especially in a world […]