Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery-1

Shehan Hettiaratchy Matthew Griffiths • Farida Ali Jon Simmons (Editors) 2012 Plastic surgery is a big subject and the size of traditional textbooks reflects this. This book was conceived as something different. Instead of a top-down, subject-by-subject approach, we wanted a bottom-up approach, with the starting point being a patient with a problem.    

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Percutaneous Treatment of Left Side Cardiac Valves

Percutaneous Treatment of Left Side Cardiac Valves -1

Corrado Tamburino • Gian Paolo Ussia 2012 At the time of publication of this handbook, percutaneous treatment of left side cardiac valves represented just an exciting and promising opportunity. The lack of outcome data at medium and long term, however, required some caution, since there were still too many unknowns related to a minimally invasive treatment of valvular heart […]

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Penetrating Trauma

Penetrating Trauma-1

Velmahos, George C.; Degiannis, Elias; Doll, Dietrich 2012 A Practical Guide on Operative Technique and Peri-Operative Management In the age of easy communication we are privileged to be bombarded by limitless bits of medical information. Textbooks, journals, tapes, and webpages rest at our fingertips. We can literally access everything and anything in our areas of interest. And exactly therein […]

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Pediatric Cancer Volume 2

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Edited by M.A. Hayat 2012 Pediatric Cancer Volume 2 This is the second volume in the series, Pediatric Cancer. Specifi cally, it discusses diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors and Brain Tumors including Gliomas. Volume 1 contains similar information on Neuroblastoma.

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