RICHARD PRAYSON 2008 The scope of neuropathology continues to expand, as evidenced by increasing numbers of multivolume and specialty texts, which have been published in recent years. For those in the neuroscience disciplines, the ever increasing amount of information one needs to assimilate and master can be challenging and even at times daunting.
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Michael Torzewski, Karl J. Lackner, Jürgen Bohl, Clemens Sommer 2008 Cytologic examination of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a technically simple but productive diagnostic procedure. Its proper performance demands considerable expertise, but it can nevertheless be accomplished relatively rapidly and inexpensively. Therefore, it may be helpful for physicians and also technicians to obtain images of routinely prepared CSF slides […]
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G.O.H. Naumann, L.M. Holbach, F.E. Kruse (Eds.) 2008 Ophthalmic pathology means the study of the symptoms and morphologic signs of diseases of the eye and ocular adnexae both biomicroscopically and in the laboratory. Precise definition of the phenotype is a prerequisite for correlation to the genotype, helping to design clinical studies. Spectacular progress is considered a hallmark of both […]
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P. Colm Malone • Paul S. Agutter 2008 A Critical, Historical and Epistemological Survey What we now call ‘deep venous thrombosis’ (DVT) has been studied in diverse ways during the last 200–300 years. Each of these approaches contributes to a full modern understanding of aetiology. Therefore, much of this book is a historical survey of the field.
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Edited by Giuliano Mariani Armando E. Giuliano H. William Strauss 2008 The fields of nuclear medicine, surgery, and general oncology have changed dramatically in the past two decades. Surgical oncologists are being asked to resect smaller and often radiographically occult tumors. The accurate staging of many malignancies is now performed with identification and resection of sentinel lymph nodes, almost […]
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Edited by Dani S. Zander Helmut H. Popper Jaishree Jagirdar Abida K. Haque Philip T. Cagle Roberto Barrios 2008 Molecular Pathology of Lung Diseases is the first volume in the Molecular Pathology Library Series by Springer Science+Business Media. Molecular pathology is rapidly becoming part of everyday medical practice from targeted molecular therapy to molecular imaging, and it is […]
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Marc J. Poulin Richard J.A. Wilson Editors 2008 From Genes to Systems Like the geological treasures that surely must lie below the Athabasca glacier, some of the answers to key questions about the control of respiration remain buried. But bit by bit, year by year the ice is melting and perhaps in some areas the rocks are starting […]
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W. Kempf M. Hantschke H. Kutzner W. H.C. Burgdorf 2008 A basic knowledge of dermatopathology is essential for the diagnosis of both inflammatory and neoplastic skin diseases. Our goal in writing this book is to provide a structured well-illustrated introduction to dermatopathology for beginners, not to replace any of the existing standard textbooks.
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John D. Lambris Editor 2008 Nearly 110 years after the term ‘Complement’ was coined by Paul Ehrlich, this fascinating cascade within the innate immune system still offers many surprises. Reports about new connections to diseases, links to other physiological pathways, novel complement-binding molecules, and microbial evasion proteins are emerging almost on a weekly base.
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Volker Paech . Hans Schulz . Zsolt Argenyi Thilo Gambichler . Peter Altmeyer 2008 The main focus of this book is to provide a comprehensive, current, and accurate lexicon to expand and clarify the meaning of surface microscopic and dermoscopic terminology including a broad range of both melanocytic and non-melanocytic skin lesions. In accordance with Stolz et al. (2002) we […]
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