Published March, 2012
By J.L. Gwinn and P. Stanley
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Current Diagnostic Pediatrics
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Trauma to various organ systems is a common medical problem in the pediatric age group. Injury due to violent action of others such as gunshot and stab wounds are not as common as in the adult population but they are increasing in the teenage group.

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Published March, 2012
By Jeffrey Q. Bostic, Alexa L. Bagnell, Jeffrey Bostic and Alexa Bagnell
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Schools can play an important role in addressing the unmet mental health needs of youth by potentially increasing access to care in a cost-effective manner. This title provides an analysis of the types of situations in which schools can and must address the mental health needs of their students, and the methodology for doing so.

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Published March, 2012
By Alice Goepfert
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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More than half a million babies in the US are born prematurely every year - preterm birth is the leading cause of infant mortality and those who survive may face lifelong problems. This title discusses the epidemiology, outcomes and clinical prediction of preterm birth, and offers information on various therapies.

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Published March, 2012
By Per Glud Ovesen, Dorte Moller Jensen and Dorte Møller Jensen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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A dramatic and worldwide increase is occurring in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in women of childbearing age. Obese women carry a significant excess risk of a variety of serious complications during pregnancy, and in addition, maternal obesity predisposes to obesity in the offspring.

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Published March, 2012
By Hamlet A. Peterson
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This book documents all the ways a growth plate can be damaged, other than fracture. They all, however, have two similar characteristics: normal roentgenographs at the time of insult and premature complete or partial arrest noted weeks, months, or years later. Because of this delay, the arrest is often not suspected or recognised early.

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Published March, 2012
By Nalin Gupta, Anuradha Banerjee and Daphne Haas-Kogan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Pediatric Oncology
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Pediatric CNS Tumors is a detailed review of childhood brain tumors with a particular emphasis on providing treatment algorithms for each tumor type. The second edition includes expanded chapters on embryonal tumors, rare tumor types, and supportive care for patients with brain tumors.

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Published March, 2012
By L.L. Greenhill and B. Shopsin
Publisher: Springer
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A panel on psychobiological issues of childhood was held, with presentations devoted to antidepressant drug levels in depressed prepubertal children, re sponses of normal and hyperactive children to stimulant medication, and the vulnerability of the adolescent offspring of manic-depressive parents to affective illnesses.

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Published March, 2012
By Joan Reynell
Publisher: Springer
Series: Studies in Development Paediatrics
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Published March, 2012
By E Feer and Emil Feer
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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Der Wunsch der Herausgeber der Enzyklopadie der klinischen Medizin, eine Diagnostik der Kinderkrankheiten in den Rahmen ihrer Bucher aufzunehmen, erschien danach wohl berechtigt.

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Published March, 2012
By James A. Stockman III, James A. Stockman and James A. Stockman III III
Publisher: Elsevier (Mosby)
Series: Year Books
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Brings you abstracts of the articles that reported the year's breakthrough developments in pediatrics, carefully selected from more than 500 journals worldwide. This annual covers all aspects of pediatric care from infectious diseases and immunology, adolescent medicine, therapeutics and toxicology, child development, and neurology and psychiatry.

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