The use of medicinal plants to treat everyday complaints and illnesses is becoming
ever more popular. This pocket guide is aimed not only at doctors and members
of the various healing professions interested in phytotherapy, but also in particular
at interested lay people, for whom this book is intended as a...
Tunability has added an important dimension to a variety of laser devices and led to new systems and applications. From laser spectroscopy to Bose-Einstein condensation, the one nexus is the tunable laser.
Incorporating nine new chapters since the first edition, TunableLaser Applications, Second...
Recognized clinical leaders in neurosurgery and neuroradiology review the cutting-edge techniques and technologies now available and describe how minimally invasive techniques have influenced their subspecialties. On the radiology side, the authors explain the latest developments in magnetic resonance spectroscopy, functional imaging, and...
The overall structure of this handbook is similar to that of the British National Formulary, with monographs arranged broadly by therapeutic category. When a drug has several different uses, these are brought together in a single monograph; this will allow the reader to appreciate in full range of actions, whether therapeutic or adverse. The...
Medical practitioners, scientists and graduate students alike will find this exhaustive survey a vital learning tool. It provides a thorough description of the fundamentals and applications in the field of laser-tissue interactions. Basic concepts such as the optical and thermal properties of tissue, the various types of tissue ablation, and...
Having first decided to organize and edit a book on heart failure in 1992 (with a 1994 publication date), we have been astounded at the changes in the field over a relatively brief 14-year period. It is with some amusement that we now look back at our first edition and note a combined chapter of beta agonists and...
Thoroughly revised for its Third Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary text on genitourinary cancers. This edition has two new editors—Frans M.J. Debruyne and W. Marston Linehan—and more than 50% new contributors. Seventeen new chapters cover familial prostate cancer, biology of bone...
The era of endo-oncology has arrived. Endo-oncology is now firmly en-
trenched in the diagnosis and management of urologic cancers. From its early
days with transurethral resection of bladder tumors, to the more recent de-
cades with establishment of techniques for percutaneous resection of transi-
tional cell carcinoma,...
It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of Springer to edit
this book.My association with the vascular endothelium covers a large part of
my scientific career and, as with any good long-standing relationship, it has
had moments of great excitement and periods of laborious construction. It
has sometimes been...
There exists today an abundance of excellent texts covering the
various aspects of organic chemistry. The student of medicinal
chemistry can choose among any of a number of first-rate expositions
of that field. The reader who is primarily interested in
the synthesis of some particular class of medicinal agents, however,
will...
Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common
conditions presenting to foot and ankle specialists.
Although the condition is usually
responsive to conservative and nonoperative
care, recalcitrant plantar fasciitis occurs in
10–20 % of the patients treated.
The aim of Pediatric Endocrinology: A Practical Clinical Guide is to provide practical
detailed and concise guidelines for the clinical management of pediatric endocrine diseases
and disorders. The audience is thus all those pediatric endocrinologists, pediatricians,
and primary care physicians who provide medical care for children...
