Springer Vienna: 483 books
by H. Krayenbühl, J. Brihaye, F. Loew
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There are two important reasons for publishing this new series entitled "Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery": 1. the lack of any organized common European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons and 2. the language barriers, which impede the exchange of neurosurgical...
by L. Symon, J. Lobo Antunes, L. Calliauw
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. This series was first discussed...
Iron Metabolism
Diagnosis and Therapy of Anemias
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Disturbances of iron metabolism, particularly iron deficiency, are among the most commonly overlooked or misinterpreted diseases. This is due to the fact that the determination of transport iron in serum or plasma, which used to be the test in conventional diagnosis, does not allow a representative...
Homocysteine in Protein Structure/Function and Human Disease
Chemical Biology of Homocysteine-containing Proteins
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Excess of homocysteine, a product of the metabolism of the essential amino acid methionine, is associated with poor health, is linked to heart and brain diseases in general human populations, and accelerates mortality in heart disease patients. Neurological and cardiovascular abnormalities occur in...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
The contributions in this book were presented at the fifth European-Japanese Joint Conference for Stroke Surgery, held in July 2010 in Duesseldorf, Germany. The topics treated are the management of cerebral and ventricular hemorrhage, extra-intracranial bypass surgery, surgical and endovascular treatment...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The contributions in this volume cover recent advances and changing concepts on diagnosis and treatment of resistant epilepsy in children. Topics treated are new insights on mechanisms of epileptogenesis in developing brain, multimodality imaging in pediatric intractable epilepsy, pediatric intractable...
Neurotraumatology: Progress and Perspectives
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Neurotraumatology, Porto (Portugal), November 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A multidisciplinary overview of techniques for monitoring acute head trauma patients is given in this book. It includes neuroimaging procedures (TCD, MRI, SPECT) and multiple neurophysiological approaches: EEG, videomonitoring and integrated computer systems with clinical applications. Results that...
by W. Seeger, W. Mann
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Morbid Obesity in Adolescents
Conservative Treatment and Surgical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
As the worldwide prevalence of morbid obesity among adolescents continues to rise, recent years have seen a large increase in the performance of adolescent bariatric surgery. While surgical intervention often becomes necessary when conservative weight-loss therapies have failed, no standards regarding...
Gamma Knife Surgery
A Guide for Referring Physicians
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Radiosurgery has become an established technique, with more than 15000 patients treated world-wide, most of them in the last five years. Yet, there is much uncertainty in the general medical community as to the nature, advantages and limitations of the method. This uncertainty provokes unnecessary...
Hypothermia in Neurosurgery
Symposium Organized by P. E. Maspes at the Second European Congress of Neurosurgery Rome, April 18–20, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Hypothermia was first applied to the human in 1940 by Smith and Fay in an attempt to affect the growth of malignant tumours, and found its most important application firstly in open cardiac surgery and latterly in neurosurgery. The first results regarding the use of hypothermia in neurosurgery were...
Arthroscopy of the Shoulder
Diagnosis and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Both the diagnosis and the current therapeutic possibilities of the shoulder joint and the subacromial space are described in explicit detail in this book. The anatomy of the shoulder joint from an arthroscopic viewpoint is also briefly described. The diagnostic part of the book gives a description...
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 Euro pean Association of Neurosurgical Societies. The fact that the English language...
New Family Interventions and Associated Research in Psychiatric Disorders
Gedenkschrift in Honor of Michael J. Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is dedicated to the memory of Michael J. Goldstein, one of the pioneers in psychosocial intervention in psychiatry. The structure of this book follows Goldstein footsteps in this domain and is subdivided into family factors as well as intervention strategies for severe mental illness. Recent...