Bernard George Michaël Bruneau Robert F. Spetzler 2011 With great anticipation and pleasure I have studied the 45 notable chapters elaborated in this voluminous monography comprising contributions of colleagues from 22 neuro-science centers throughout the world. Drs. B. George, M. Bruneau, and R.F. Spetzler deserve my admiration for the successful coordination of this homogenous publication.
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Muharrem Yazici Editor 2011 The term axis defines a straight line interconnecting the two poles of a spherical object. In biology, it denotes the imaginary central line of the body, or more specifically the vertebral column. The bones of the skull and the vertebral column together make up the portion of the skeletal system that is known as […]
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Alexander Lerner • Michael Soudry (Editors) 2011 Throughout the long history of military medicine, the advances in the treatment of combat casualties paralleled the development of weapons and their destructive properties. The diversity and gravity of tissue damage depend primarily on the released energy.
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Edited by Alberto Alexandre Marcos Masini Pier Maria Menchetti 2011 On behalf of the International Study Group on Spinal Degenerative Pathologies (ISSDP) (head Dr Alberto Alexandre) and the Committee for Peripheral Nerve Surgery of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (head Dr Eduardo Fernandez) and sponsored by EU.
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Matthias W. Wichmann • David C. Borgstrom Nadine R. Caron • Guy Maddern (Editors) 2011 Challenges and Solutions for the Rural Surgeon We are very pleased to present our contribution to the developing field of rural surgery. Rural surgery requires the surgeon to always be prepared for a procedure or an intervention that he or she might […]
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Gustavo Duque • Ken Watanabe (Editors) 2011 Animal Models It usually starts with a wonderful hypothesis but could be suddenly stopped by the wrong choice of the animal model to test it. Biomedical research is a dynamic process that initiates with a hypothesis, continues with the selection of an appropriate experimental model and ends with the publication of […]
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David Perry David Warwick David Gozzard 2011
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Yuri Nakasato • Raymond L. Yung Editors 2011 It is our pleasure to introduce an exciting new textbook that provides a much-needed and different perspective on rheumatology. Our outstanding contributors have put in a lot of effort and thought delving into the aging process per se, the older population, and how they affect the future of rheumatology.
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Loren M. Fishman · Allen N. Wilkins 2011 Provocative Maneuvers in Electrodiagnosis In the course of electrodiagnostic examinations over what is, taken together, more than 30 years of practice, we have noticed changes in what were ostensibly immutable parameters. An individual’s nerve conduction velocities or occasionally absolute or interpeak latencies in somatosensory-evoked potentials seemed at times to vary with […]
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Robert J. Pignolo • Mary Ann Keenan Nader M. Hebela Editors 2011 A Guide to Practical Management According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, one in two women and one in four men over age 50 will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in their lifetime, accounting for more than 1.5 million fractures annually. In the USA, a women’s risk of […]
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