Luan D. Truong Steven S. Shen Jae Y. Ro 2009 Intraoperative pathology consultation remains one of the most challenging and demanding areas in the practice of diagnostic pathology. The need for making an accurate diagnosis under the constraint of time limitation, suboptimal tissue preparation, and incomplete clinical information, is a well -recognized problem.
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Walter K. H. Krause • Rajesh K. Naz 2009 The Impact of Immune Reactions on Human Infertility Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after having unprotected intercourse for a year. Infertility is increasing worldwide and has various causes both in the male and the female partner. Immune reactions to sperm can contribute up to 2–30% […]
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Lucio Olivetti • Luigi Grazioli Editors 2009 Like every book worth its salt, Imaging of Urogenital Diseases: A Color Atlas has the obligation of a preface. This was the warm suggestion of the publisher and so it was decided. After a year of -solid commitment, L.O. and L.G. face this final task with relief, a task which is the […]
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Jean J.M.C.H. de la Rosette Michael J. Manyak Mukesh G. Harisinghani Hessel Wijkstra Editors 2009 Novel and significant changes in the area of oncologic imaging have had a positive impact on the ability to non-invasively stage bladder, prostate, penile, testicular, adrenal, and renal tumors. Most of these imaging enhancements are closely related and parallel the clinical impact of […]
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Robert L. Bard 2009 Screening for prostate cancer with digital rectal examination (DRE) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has met with controversy during this decade. ThThe 2008 position statement of the American College of Preventive Medicine concludes: “…there is insufficient evidence to recommend routine population screening with DRE or PSA” (Lim et al., Am J Prev Med 2008;34(2):164-70).
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G.Willy Davila, Gamal M. Ghoniem and Steven D.Wexner (Eds.) 2009 All the characteristics and driving force of The Cleveland Clinic are to be found in this book on pelvic floor function. The Cleveland Clinic is a group practice founded in 1921 on the principles of cooperation, collaboration, and collegiality. Its founders believed that many physicians working together will […]
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Zacharias Zachariou (Ed.) 2009 A discipline for childcare must remain young, responsive, and flexible. This flexibility has to be sustained in order for pediatric surgeons to establish their position, which lies in the fields of both pediatrics and surgery. The concept of this book is to break down barriers and to enable young physicians to look up everyday questions […]
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Edited by Manickam Ramalingam Vipul R. Patel 2009 Laparoscopic urology has become routine in many centers for ablative procedures such as radical nephrectomy. Uro-oncologic procedures such as adrenalectomy, partial nephrectomy, nephroureterectomy, retroperitoneal lymph node dissection, radical cystectomy, and radical prostatectomy are done by skilled laparoscopic urologists in a few centers.
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Edited by ASHRAF KHAN 2009 Surgical pathology is the cornerstone in management of neoplastic disorders. With the advances made in ,our understanding of disease and application of new ancillary diagnostic studies the cross talk between surgical pathology and its related fields such as cytopathology and molecular diagnosis has become important for patient care and to provide the […]
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Amulya K. Saxena · Michael E. Höllwarth (Eds.) 2009 General pediatric surgery has undergone a revolutionary change in the last decade, with the widespread acceptance and adoption of endoscopic surgery in the neonatal, pediatric and adolescent age groups.
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