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  • Salivary Gland Infections, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 21-3
    • Michael D. Turner + 1 más
    • Inglés
    A complete review of salivary gland infections for the oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Topics in this issue include epidemiology, microbiology, diagnostic imaging, diagnosis and management of chronic and acute salivary gland infections, salivary gland infections and HIV, viral salivary gland infections, pediatrics, sialoendoscopy, extirpation, and an algorithm for diagnosis and management of salivary gland infections.

  • Cancer: What the Primary Care Practitioner Needs to Know, Part I, An Issue of Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 36-3
    • Richard Wender + 1 más
    • Inglés
    Cancer is a chronic life-threatening disease that requires a comprehensive approach, including health promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation. Because primary care physicians are critically important to the implementation of cancer control strategies, we have devoted two issues of Primary Care to keeping primary care physicians informed about the most recent developments in cancer treatment and prevention. Part I focuses on identifying cancer risk factors and on screening and prevention for specific cancers such as breast, cervical, colon, and prostate cancer.

  • Instant Work-ups: A Clinical Guide to Pediatrics

    • 1 Edición
    • Theodore X. O'Connell + 3 más
    • Inglés
    Instant Workups: Clinical Guide to Pediatrics, by Theodore X. O'Connell, MD, is a portable pocket resource and quick refresher that helps you develop and refine your diagnostic skills. Practical and easy to use, it provides clear workup plans for the most common pediatric conditions, providing you with quick, focused guidance with the flexibility to adapt to each unique patient. Topics are organized alphabetically and cover the signs, symptoms, and abnormal lab readings for each condition. Replace information taken from memory or multiple references with one concise, indispensable book so you can make accurate diagnoses in less time!

  • Intraoperative MRI in Functional Neurosurgery, An Issue of Neurosurgery Clinics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 20-2
    • Daniel A. Lim + 1 más
    • Inglés
    For this issue, Drs. Daniel Lim and Paul Larson at the University of California San Francisco present a collection of papers dedicated to Functional Neurosurgery. They explore topics such as functional neurosurgery orginis of Intraoperative MRI, iMRI safety, anethesia in the iMRI environment, gene therapy, the use of iMRI for cell-based therapy of Parkinson's desease, and more.

  • Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Heart Failure, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 5-3
    • Raymond J. Kim + 1 más
    • Inglés
    Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has evolved into a first-line imaging tool for several cardiac pathologies over the past decade. It is continuing to evolve as new applications are found and old ones are refined. This issue has a dual focus. One aspect of focus is on the areas in which CMI is the best modality, such as assessment of cardiac morphology and cardiac function, evaluation of pericardial disease and intracardiac masses, and detection of coronary artery disease. The other focus is on areas in which the role of CMI is expanding, such as in the assessment of left and right ventricular diastolic function.

  • Sedation and Analgesia in the ICU: Pharmacology, Protocolization, and Clinical Consequences, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 25-3
    • Pratik Pandharipande + 1 más
    • Inglés
    In this issue, Guest Editors Pratik Panharipande and Wesley Ely look at modern Sedation techniques in the critically ill. Topics include: "Pharmacology of commonly used sedatives and analgesics in the ICU," "Pharmacology of newer agents for sedation and analgesia in the critically ill," "Current sedation practices: lessons learned from recent international surveys," "Sedation and Immunomodulation," "Sedation and sleep disturbances in the ICU," and more!

  • Contact Dermatitis, An Issue of Dermatologic Clinics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 27-3
    • Susan Nedorost
    • Inglés
    This issue of Dermatologic Clinics examines Contact Dermatitis. Guest Editor Susan Nedorost has assembled a panel of world-class experts who offer reviews on topics, including Patient education to enhance contact dermatitis evaluation and testing, Recognizing and testing new allergens, Determining relevance of patch tests and avoidance strategies, Hand/face/neck localized pattern: sticky problems—resins, Hand dermatitis: a focus on allergic contact dermatitis to biocides, Run-off pattern or perioral facial dermatitis due to hair and lip products, Clinical patterns of hand and foot dermatitis: emphasis on rubber and chromate allergens, Unusual patterns: medicaments, Clinical patterns of phytodermatitis, Factors associated with textile pattern dermatitis due to contact allergy to dyes, finishes, foams and preservatives, Acute and recurrent vesicular hand dermatitis, Systemic contact dermatitis, Management of occupational dermatitis, and Public health challenges in contact dermatitis.

  • Neoplastic Hematopathology, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 23-4
    • Randy D. Gascoyne
    • Inglés
    This issue focuses on neoplastic hematopathology. Thirteen articles written by leading experts in the field cover a number of specific disease entities including the acute leukemias, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloproliferative diseases, multiple myeloma and the chronic lymphoid leukemias. The spectrum of lymphoid cancers and related disorders is also covered, including articles on reactive and atypical lymphoproliferative disorders, Hodgkin lymphoma, small B cell malignancies, the aggressive B cell lymphomas, as well as Burkitt lymphoma and the entire spectrum of peripheral T cell lymphomas. Finally, two more generic articles cover current issues in bone marrow pathology for lymphoma diagnosis and staging and finally a cutting-edge chapter on molecular diagnostics in hematopathology.

  • Advances in Coronary Angiography, An Issue of Cardiology Clinics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 27-3
    • S. James Chen + 1 más
    • Inglés
    Catheter-based or invasive x-ray coronary angiography is undergoing a profound change in large part because of the transition to a digital image format that now allows computer processing, 3-D reconstructions, advanced graphics and analysis, and multimodality fusion. 3D reconstruction of blood vessels is done in real time, providing an accurate picture of the vessels and their relationship to each other. This gives the physician much more detailed information for performing coronary interventional procedures, such as noninvasive valve repair with a stricture band.

  • Care of the Cirrhotic Patient, An Issue of Medical Clinics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 93-4
    • David A. Sass
    • Inglés
    This issue of the Medical Clinics of North America brings the practicing clinician up to date on best practices of caring for the cirrhotic patient. Topics covered include diagnosis and epidemiology of cirrhosis; ascites: diagnosis and management; encephalopathy: pathophysiology and emerging therapies; portal hypertensive bleeding; renal failure: differential diagnosis and management; pulmonary complications; hepatocellular carcinoma: current state of treatment; preventative health issues; pre-operative risk assessment; and liver transplantation: from Child’s to MELD.

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