Surgery category: 3482 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This atlas documents current surgical approaches to the craniocervical junction and the cervical spine, providing step-by-step guidance on procedures and cervical spine stabilization techniques. Opening chapters present essential information on anatomy, depict pathologies with the aid of illustrative...
Dermal Replacements in General, Burn, and Plastic Surgery
Tissue Engineering in Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The skin is the largest human organ system. Loss of skin integrity due to injury or illness results in a substantial physiologic imbalance and ultimately in severe disability or death. The most common cause of significant skin loss is thermal injury, followed by trauma and chronic ulcerations.
Over...
by Hiroaki Nomori, Morihito Okada
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Advances in CT have enabled us to detect small lung cancers, which has changed the lung cancer surgery from lobectomy to a lesser lobar resection such as a segmentectomy or wedge resection. While wedge resection is a simple procedure, it has a higher risk of local recurrence of cancer than a lobectomy....
Stimulation of Trigeminal Afferents Improves Motor Recovery After Facial Nerve Injury
Functional, Electrophysiological and Morphological Proofs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Recovery of mimic function after facial nerve transection is poor: the successful regrowth of axotomized motoneurons to their targets is compromised by (i) poor axonal navigation and excessive collateral branching, (ii) abnormal exchange of nerve impulses between adjacent regrowing axons and (iii)...
Phlebology, Vein Surgery and Ultrasonography
Diagnosis and Management of Venous Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
This comprehensive, up-to-date textbook offers detailed coverage of venous anatomy, pathophysiology, imaging, and management of venous pathology, leading the practitioner through all aspects of care of the venous patient. The various techniques that have revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment...
Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Cancer
Asian Perspectives on Optimization and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book presents an Asian perspective on how the treatment of colorectal cancer can be optimized and standardized in ways that take into account technological advances and the trend towards individually tailored therapy. Readers will find careful, well-illustrated descriptions of the standard surgical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Shape memory alloy implants or "smart biomaterial" have already been used in humans for 20 years in selected countries. Restrictions in the use of biomaterials in living organisms being reduced throughout the world now the use of SMA implants continue to expand in the fields of vascular...
by Henry Kuerer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
A complete multidisciplinary guide to breast surgical oncology
Includes DVD with surgical video clips and breast ultrasound atlas
A Doody's Core Title for 2011!
A British Medical Association Book Awards Runner-up, Oncology category!
"Kuerer's new textbook of Breast...
Spine Disorders
Medical and Surgical Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
An essential, one-stop reference guide to the evaluation and treatment of patients with cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine disease. Based on a course taught by these highly respected authors at the American Academy of Neurology's Annual Meeting, this volume gives concise descriptions of the anatomy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A thorough description of new surgical treatment which accelerates the healing of formerly intractable venous ulcerations, and which can be carried out in a day-care surgical centre -- thus avoiding the need for hospitalisation. It treats the pathophysiology as well as the anatomy, and compares the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
This highly illustrated textbook is an essential guide for surgeons in training, providing step-by-step approaches to performing surgical procedures. Practical guidance is given on patient positioning, approach and reduction techniques, which implant to insert, protocols for postoperative mobilisation,...
Microsurgical Anatomy and Surgery of the Posterior Cranial Fossa
Surgical Approaches and Procedures Based on Anatomical Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
This book describes the anatomy of the posterior fossa, together with the main associated surgical techniques, which are detailed in numerous photographs and step-by-step color illustrations.
The book presents approaches and surgical techniques such as the trans-cerebellomedullary fissure approach...
The Exstrophy—Epispadias Complex
Research Concepts and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The undertaking of the treatment of an infant born with bladder exstrophy is one of the most weighty responsibilities that can fall upon the shoulders of the reconstructive sur geon. The modern treatment of a child born with bladder exstrophy began in the mid- 1970's with the widespread application...
by Mario Rietjens, Mario Casales Schorr, Visnu Lohsiriwat
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
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Breast reconstructive and oncoplastic surgery can reduce the sense of mutilation resulting from oncologic surgery and meets the need to provide breast cancer treatment that will not only eradicate the cancer but also re-establish the patient’s quality of life. However,...