Published October, 2010
By Kirby I. Bland, Michael G. Sarr, Markus W. Buchler, Attila Csendes, Oliver James Garden and John Wong
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Critical Care Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy in the critically ill patient.

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Published October, 2010
By Otto A. Smiseth and Michal Tendera
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Heart failure is the biggest killer in the western world, and the prevalence is expected to increase due to aging of the population. Furthermore, the book will provide insights in cardiac function that are needed to perform and interpret the diagnostic tests, and to provide some guides to treatment choices.

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Published October, 2010
By Nicola Maffulli, Per Renström, Wayne Leadbetter and Wayne B. Leadbetter
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Tendon Injuries: Basic Science and Clinical Medicine is specifically dedicated to the clinical aspects of tendinopathy and provides the required knowledge and scientific basis for the sports medicine practitioner, orthopedic specialist and student facing upper and lower limb tendon ailments in athletes.

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Published October, 2010
By Sumaira Macdonald and Gerald Stansby
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Several sizeable multicentre trials are running concurrently, which are comparing carotid endarterectomy (CEA), the "gold standard," with the less invasive alternative, carotid stenting (CAS) for low-risk patients with symptomatic carotid stenoses who are considered to be surgical candidates.

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Published October, 2010
By Michael A. Gatzoulis, Michael Henein and Wei Li
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This book provides cardiologists with access to the wealth of imaging from the Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute in London to enable them to improve on their own skills and refine their imaging technique.

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Published October, 2010
By Graeme J. Poston, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Riccardo A. Audisio and Paulo M. Hoff
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After giving a biological overview of liver metastases and current methods of detection and diagnosis, this book explores in detail each of the possible major treatment modalities. It closes with a look at germane health economics issues.

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Published October, 2010
By Guang-Zhong Yang and M. Yacoub
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Published October, 2010
By David Jayne and Angelo Stuto
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Although hemorrhoidal disease and external rectal prolapse have been known about for centuries, the understanding of internal rectal prolapse (intussusception) and rectocele has only really advanced with the emergence of radiological imaging tech-niques, such as defecography.

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Published October, 2010
By Hiroyuki Yoshida and Junichiro Toriwaki
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However, a completely di?erent type of image with its own new problems, the 3D digital image discussed in this book, rapidly took prominence in the 1980s, particularly in the ?eld of medical imaging.

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Published October, 2010
By Hans M. Gregersen and Hans Gregersen
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Biomechanics of the Gastrointestinal Tract is an up-to-date book for researchers on the study of the mechanical properties and the motor system of the gastrointestinal tract.

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