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  • Atlas of Normal Roentgen Variants That May Simulate Disease

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    • 9th Edition
    • Theodore E. Keats + 1 more
    • English
    Seeing is believing with the Atlas of Normal Roentgen Variants That May Simulate Disease, edited by the late Theodore Keats and Mark W. Anderson. Now streamlined into a more concise, portable print format, with a wealth of additional content online, this medical reference book’s thousands of images capture the roentgenographic presentation of a full range of normal variants and pseudo-lesions that may resemble pathologic conditions, helping you avoid false positives. You’d be hard pressed to find a comparable image collection in any one place online.

  • Rhinoplasty

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    • 1st Edition
    • Bahman Guyuron
    • English
    Dr. Bahman Guyuron’s Rhinoplasty shows you how to get the best results from the latest rhinoplasty techniques. The high-quality artwork and step-by-step instructions in this medical reference book provide all the guidance you need to succeed. You’ll choose and apply the best approaches for particular patient populations such as cocaine users, patients with thick skin, ethnic patients, and revision rhinoplasty patients.

  • Polypharmacy, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 28-2
    • Holly Holmes
    • English
    With the use of multiple medications in the elderly patient comes the risk of drug-related problems. This issue covers polypharmacy in the elderly patient with topics that include: The Interplay between Polypharmacy, Geriatric Conditions, and Adverse Drug Reactions, Factors Leading to Excessive Polypharmacy, Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Diseases and How They Contribute to Polypharmacy, Polypharmacy in Nursing Home Residents, Psychotropic Polypharmacy, Deprescribing Trials: Methods to Reduce Polypharmacy and the Impact on Prescribing and Clinical Outcomes, Ethical Framework for Medication Discontinuation in Nursing Home Residents with Limited Life Expectancy, Pharmacokinetics in the Elderly and the Interaction with Polypharmacy, Medication Adherence to Multi-drug Regimens, Improvements in Electronic Prescribing to Reduce Inappropriate Medication Use and Polypharmacy, and Tools to Decrease Polypharmacy.

  • Evaluation of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, An Issue of Gastroenterology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 41-2
    • Samir Shah + 2 more
    • English
    The Guest Editors have focused on methods of diagnosing and evaluating IBD to help guide optimal treatment to maximize clinical outcomes and minimize risks. Authors have provided state-of-the-art updates with practical information/guidelin... and cutting-edge data for incorporation into practice. The first set of articles deals with endoscopy: its role in diagnosis and monitoring IBD; the growing importance of chromoendoscopy in IBD surveillance exams; assessment of post-operative recurrence; and finally the emerging role of capsule endoscopy. The second section focuses on specific scenarios that IBD physicians encounter frequently: health maintenance in IBD focusing on proper vaccinations; the growing problem of Clostridium difficile in IBD; assessment of pouch problems; optimal evaluation of perianal disease; the state of the art in using thiopurines including use of allopurinol to optimize metabolites and optimizing the use of infliximab by measuring levels and antibodies to infliximab; factors to consider in choosing monotherapy versus combination therapy and communication of risk/benefit to patients; and finally disability assessment in IBD. The third and final section highlights noninvasive methods to evaluate IBD: clinical predictors of aggressive or disabling disease; the evolving role of specific antibodies in diagnosing, subtyping and most recently prognosticating in IBD; stool markers (calproctectin and lactoferrin) for evaluating and monitoring IBD; the growing role of imaging modalities with emphasis on MR enterography and CT enterography; and finally, the genetics of IBD and the potential role of genetic testing in the diagnosis/prognosis and tailoring of therapy.

  • Surgery of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses: Principles and Concepts, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24-2
    • Orrett E. Ogle + 1 more
    • English
    Guest Editors Orrett Ogle and Harry Dym present a comprehensive look at surgery of the nose and paranasal sinuses. Topics include surgical anatomy of the paranasal sinuses, instrumentation and techniques for examination of the ear, nose, throat and sinuses, imaging of the paranasal sinuses, microbiology of the paranasal sinuses, surgery of the paranasal sinuses, removal of parotid, submandibular and sublingual glands, oro-antral and oro-nasal fistulas, turbinectomy and surgery for nasal obstruction, cysts and benign tumors of paranasal sinuses, tonsillitis, peritoinsilar and lateral pharyngeal abscesses, and much more!

  • Innovations in Fetal and Neonatal Surgery, An Issue of Clinics in Perinatology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39-2
    • Hanmin Lee + 1 more
    • English
    The Guest Editors have assembled a list of topics that provide state-of-the-art coverage on fetal surgery. Topics covered include fetal cardiac intervention, abdominal wall defects, NEC, esophageal atresia, and spinia bifida. Some articles provide the clinical basics, like general concepts of fetal surgery, while others provide a detailed look at CDH in utero, CDH post natal, ECMO/placenta, stem cell, and anorectal malformations.

  • Maternal, Fetal, & Neonatal Physiology

    • 4th Edition
    • Susan Blackburn
    • English
    Provide the best care possible with expert insight and clinically relevant coverage of the physiologic changes that occur throughout all major periods of the perinatal experience — prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal. Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Physiology: A Clinical Perspective, 4th Edition gives you a solid foundation for assessment and therapeutic interventions, featuring an emphasis on the evolving interrelationships between mother, fetus, and neonate and adaptations of preterm and term infants to the extrauterine environment.

  • Précis d'ophtalmologie clinique

    • 2nd Edition
    • Jack J. Kanski + 4 more
    • French
    Le Précis d'anatomie clinique en format de poche est une synthèse issue du bestseller de Jack Kanski, Clinical Ophthalmology. Ce guide est une aide indispensable au diagnostic et à la prise en charge des affections oculaires. Pour chaque pathologie, le lecteur y trouvera des illustrations, ainsi que les symptômes, signes cliniques, étiologies, diagnostics différentiels et traitements. Il s'adresse à tout clinicien recherchant un guide pratique de référence à la fois diagnostique et thérapeutique. L'objectif de ce livre est aussi de donner au lecteur une vision globale de l'ophtalmologie, particulièrement utile lors de la préparation d'examens. Cette deuxième édition entièrement révisée comporte plus de 250 nouvelles images ; de nouveaux tableaux de diagnostics différentiels ; les informations les plus récentes sur les innovations, les techniques d'examen, l'imagerie médicale, les pathologies induites par les médicaments, les malformations et anomalies génétiques.

  • Volume 1, Issue 2, an issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics - E-Book

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1-2
    • David B. Feinbloom + 1 more
    • English
    This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily. This second issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the management of class III and IV heart failure; pulmonary hypertension; diabetic foot infections; hyponatremia; acute pancreatitis; management of acute stroke; prevention of deep vein thrombosis; electroconvulsive therapy; advance directives; and legal pitfalls for the hospitalist.

  • Quality of Life Issues in Dermatology, An Issue of Dermatologic Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 30-2
    • Suephy C. Chen
    • English
    This issue defines the concepts and outlines the concerns surrounding quality of life issues in dermatology. Articles review the concepts of general versus disease-specific measures and include Patient Preference QOL Measures, and Review of Children and Family QOL Measures. Disease specific QOL topics are also included, such as Melanoma, Acne, and Eczema.

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