Whether you are a resident, practicing radiologist, or new fellow, this authoritative resource offers expert guidance on all the essential information you need to approach musculoskeletal MRI and recognize abnormalities. The updated second edition features new illustrations to i…
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a disease which is increasing worldwide. Treatment can modify its course but cannot cure it yet. AD is an enormous challenge not only for the afflicted person. This book contains articles by internationally recognized authors from different profession…
The book provides an up-to-date overview of the history of aviation medicine and the development of medical requirements for licensing. Also the physiological foundation for flight, the physiology of the sensory organs, exposure to cosmic radiation, the preventative aspects of a…
Suitable for nuclear physicians and nuclear cardiologists, this book integrates information from both cardiology and nuclear cardiology. It covers such topics as Basic Sciences and Cardiovascular Diseases; Diagnostic Modalities; Nuclear Cardiology; and, Management of Cardiovascu…
A significant amount of new information concerning epidemiology, medical and surgical therapy for patients with incontinence has appeared over the past five years. Importantly, with recently introduced minimally invasive technologies and recent development in the medical managem…
by Welcsh, Piri
fromCancer genetics
Of all factors contributing to breast cancer, family history of disease is the most powerful. Currently, our understanding of genetic predisposition to breast cancer includes three classes of genes as defined by their associated risks. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are high-penetrance breast …
Focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in colonial India. Tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, this book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ide…
The carcinogenic mechanism of hepatobiliary and pancreatic tumors is poorly understood, making the development of rational treatment strategies difficult. The Syrian hamster is a unique animal for studying these neoplasms. This title explains various methods for the successful i…
by Abbara, Suhny, Miller, Stephen W., (Stephen Wilmot), Boxt, Lawrence M.
The updated third edition of this best-selling Radiology Requisites₉ volume concisely synthesizes all of today₂s core knowledge about cardiac imaging. Clinically oriented coverage encompasses everything from basic principles through the latest diagnostic imaging techniques, equi…
by Stack, M. Sharon, Fishman, David A.
fromCancer treatment and research
Ovarian carcinoma continues to be responsible for more deaths than all other gynecologic malignancies combined, due to a continued inability to achieve detection of early (rather than advanced) stage disease and the lack of effective tumor-specific therapeutics. This title inclu…
Skin Cancer after Organ Transplantation presents the state-of-the-art knowledge of cutaneous malignancies following organ transplantation. The life promoting and life enhancing benefits of solid organ transplantation is a major medical advance, but at the cost of the life-long i…
This title explores recent developments in the tools and techniques of data acquisition and analysis in cognitive electrophysiology.
An estimated 1.5 million patients in the United States are diagnosed with cancer every year and over half-a-million individuals die of the disease. Since the vast majority of the deaths occur after medical intervention with anticancer therapy, both conventional chemotherapy and …
The electrocardiogram (ECG) remains an essential tool in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. ECG Diagnosis in Clinical Practice emphasizes the importance of the technique in clinical practice rather than as an abstract analysis of lines on a strip of paper. It includes a la…
Simian Virology is the first text to comprehensively cover all currently known simian viruses. Chapters provide an overview of nonhuman primate models of medically important viral diseases as well as natural infections of nonhuman primates with human and animal viruses. The text…
Focuses on the active role of astrocytes in physiological processing in the central nervous system and uses this as a basis for identifying pathological roles for these glial cells in the brain.
