Neurology category: 2138 books
Tumors of the Central Nervous system, Volume 3
Brain Tumors (Part 1)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
The classification of brain tumors is up-dated using magnetic resonance spectroscopy technology. The role of cellular immortality in brain tumors is reviewed. Tumor to tumor metastases are a common occurrence; for example, , brain metastasis from breast cancer, lung cancer, and renal cancer is discussed....
Neuro-Ophthalmology
Illustrated Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
This book presents fifty clinical cases in neuro-ophthalmology, some of which are common and some of which are rare. Each case is presented as a diagnostic and management challenge as found in clinical practice. High quality clinical photographs and images bring the cases to life alongside the diagnostic...
Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 2
Gliomas: Glioblastoma (Part 2)
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2011
Advantages and limitations of biomarkers in gliomagenesis are described. Molecular subtypes of gliomas are detailed. The role played by TP53 gene mutation in the deadliest brain tumor, glioblastoma multiforme, is pointed out. The role of mutations of IDH1 and IDH2, and isocitrate dehydrogenases in...
Vascular Diseases in Neonates, Infants and Children
Interventional Neuroradiology Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Here, the number-one authority in the field, Professor Pierre Lasjaunias provides a comprehensive and consistently structured presentation of all vascular malformations, diseases and tumours of the head and neck, skull base, brain, spine and spinal cord in neonate infants and children. This is the...
by H. Krayenbühl, J. Brihaye, F. Loew
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons we began to publish in 1974 this·series devoted to Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. The fact that the English language...
by Hans-Dieter Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume is a welcome contribution to the literature on manual medicine. It is concise and accessible, yet covers the field compre hensively. It presents a synthesis of the past current literature and provides a valuable overview. Dr. Neumann, for many years a stu dent, practitioner, teacher,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book is a concise but detailed treatise on the laryngeal nervous system. It is ideal for researchers starting work in this field in that it provides a quick update on present-day basic neurolaryngology. A brief introduction to the methodology that made recent progress possible is followed by...
Spinal Angiomas
Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The rapid development of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the management of spinal angiomas has opened up new possibilities and provided better chances for the patients concerned. The greatest impetus to this pro gress was given by the introduction of selective and superselective spinal...
Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 13
Types of Tumors, Diagnosis, Ultrasonography, Surgery, Brain Metastasis, and General CNS Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Volume 13: Pineal, Pituitary, and Spinal Tumors is organized in six sections, for convenience and quick access to critical information. Section I, Types of Tumors includes a chapter on molecular characterization of Embryonal tumors, a chapter on diagnosis of metastatic oligodendroglioma using fine-needle...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Amaurosis fugax, or "fleeting blindness," has been known as a clinical entity for hundreds of years (1). Since 1859, we also have understood that the phenomenon frequently is related to atheroembolic disease and that it is considered a classic manifestation of ocular transient ischemic attacks...
by M. Lipovsek, J.-L. Truelle, A.D. Mendelow
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Surgery of Vertebrobasilar Aneurysms
London, Ontario Experience on 1767 Patients
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is a great privilege to write the foreword for this classical work of Professor Charles Drake. There is no doubt that intracranial aneurysms have existed since the beginning of time. This terrifying disease of the brain arteries, with its dramatic consequences for the patient, has surely been observed...
by A. Harders
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In 1981, the Norwegian physiologist and cyberneticist, Rune Aaslid, developed a device which made it possible to apply the transcranial Doppler sonographic technique in man. In 1983, Dr. Albrecht Harders took on the project of working out a clinically practicable method that would allow atraumatic...
Moyamoya Disease Explored Through RNF213
Genetics, Molecular Pathology, and Clinical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book presents the latest findings on biological, epidemiological, and clinical investigations of RNF213, which is thought to be involved in many biological processes and plays a key role in cerebro- and cardiovascular disease . By discussing the epidemiology and genetic epidemiology of the disease...