Hiroaki Nomori ● Morihito Okada 2012 When I was a trainee at the National Cancer Center in Tokyo, my mentors, thoracicsurgeons, Drs. Shichiro Ishikawa and Tsuguo Naruke always cautioned me not to think that “I can do everything by myself ”. With this in mind, I accepted the kind offer of Professor Morihito Okada at the Department […]
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Edited by G.A. Aygok, H.L. Rekate 2012 The 5 th International Hydrocephalus Workshop was held May 20-23, 2010, in the Aegean island of Crete, Greece. The workshop was preceded by the 24 th Annual Hellenic Congress of Neurosurgery and the 4 th Annual Neurosurgery Nurses Meeting as well.
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Robert Hermans Editor 2012 The head and neck is a region of considerable anatomical and functional complexity, making the accurate staging of a head and neck neoplasm a challenging task. Many neoplasms in this region originate from the mucosa, and are detectable by the clinician.
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Tommaso Scarabino Editor 2012 Recent years have witnessed important progress in the imaging of brain tumors. In the case of magnetic resonance imaging, increasingly sophisticated contrast agents afford a more comprehensive study of blood-brain barrier abnormalities in clinical practice, and at the same time new techniques have been designed to evaluate the morphology of local and distant metastases.
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Christopher D. Owens Yerem Yeghiazarians (Editors) 2012 Increasingly, peripheral vascular interventions are being performed by vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, and interventional radiologists. This handbook is meant to be a guide for the beginner and also for the more advanced interventionalist covering all aspects of percutaneous peripheral vascular interventions.
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Lars-Peter Kamolz, Marc G. Jeschke, Raymund E. Horch, Markus Küntscher, Pavel Brychta (editors) 2012 Over the past decades, extraordinary advances have been made in the understanding of cellular and molecular processes involved in acute wound healing. This knowledge has led to wound care innovations and new developments concerning burn care; burn care has improved to the extent that persons with burns […]
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Marc G. Jeschke, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Folke Sjöberg, Steven E. Wolf (editors) 2012 Severe burn injuries are maybe not the most common injuries occurring on a daily basis however, it is estimated that within North America approximately 300,000 – 500,000 patients are hospitalized annually due to a burn related injury and that worldwide approximately 500,000 –1,000,000 people die due to a burn […]
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Ansgar M. Brambrink ● Jeffrey R. Kirsch Editors 2012 Today, treatment decisions are expected to be evidence-based, and the pursuit of excellence in clinical practice is an essential element for achieving success in the current health care environment.
Continue reading →Mariano Scaglione • Ulrich Linsenmaier Gerd Schueller Editors 2012 We, as radiologists, face a time in which rapid emergency radiology (ER) diagnosis and intervention are mandatory for the proper management of serious abdominal emergencies.
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Charisse Litchman Editor 2012 Desmoid tumors are currently amongst the rarest of rare tumors that afflict patients. The incidence of these tumors is not as low as is currently believed, however. Misdiagnosed by treating physicians and oncologists alike, especially in cases which remain stable or even regress over time, they may be labeled inaccurately or overlooked entirely.
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