Published February, 2012
By T. Kita and M. Yokode
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Published February, 2012
By A. Kitabatake, S. Sasayama and G.S. Francis
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Remarkable progress has been made in understanding and treating heart failure. The Japanese Heart Failure Society was established to curb the threat of heart failure through research, education, and clinical practice.

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Published February, 2012
By Kenji Eguchi, Jean Klastersky and Ronald Feld
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With invited speakers from North America, Europe, and Japan, the symposium focused on standard management and clinical trials of control of symptoms such as pain and cachexia, ethics in palliative medicine, the economics of health care, quality-of-life research, management of depression, and patient education.

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Published February, 2012
By Iwao Honjo
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For more than three decades the methods for assessing cell pro liferation have been largely the preserve of experimental biologists, and in their hands such techniques have contributed greatly to our understanding of the dynamic organisation of normal and patho logical tissues.

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Published February, 2012
By N. Matsui, Y. Taneda and Y. Yoshida
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Joint replacement surgery has seen remarkable progress and development in recent years both in prostheses and in surgical technique. This book presents an update on the means by which the problems of wear and loosening are being addressed in total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

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Published February, 2012
By Tamotsu Morimitsu
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Acquired aural cholesteatoma poses a unique procedural dilemma with regard to pathogenetic research and theory building. I hold that the pathogenesis of cholesteatoma will be understood by studying the cholesteatomatous ear, that is, the malpneumatized ear of the human.

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Published February, 2012
By T. Amemiya and Tsugio Amemiya
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Retinal and choroidal vasculatures are easily affected by various systemic diseases, and changes in the retina can easily be observed with various procedures such as direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, fluorescein fundus angiography, and indocyanin green fundus angiography.

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Published February, 2012
By Y. Yoshida, S. Glagov, T. Yamaguchi, C.G. Caro and R.M. Nerem
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It has long been recognized that atherosclerosis tends to develop in certain areas of the artery. Blood flow is thus considered to play an important role in such development. However, the direct mechanisms of the influence of blood flow on atherosclerosis are controversial.

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Published February, 2012
By Hajime Ishikura and Kokichi Kikuchi
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Cases of intestinal anisakiasis, caused by infestation with Anisakis simplex larva, are being increasingly reported in both Europe and the United States.

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Published February, 2012
By Kazuo Tabuchi and Akira Nishimoto
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Despite recent technological innovations in neuroradiology, the ultimate diagnosis of brain tumors is still based on the histopathological findings from specimens taken during surgery.

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