Published January, 2012
By Norihiko Tamaki
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Recent advances in technology have opened up new possibilities in the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrospinal vascular diseases. Novel applications of magnetic resonance angiography allow three-dimensional imaging, and the magnetization transfer contrast technique gives us a new window on cerebral vascular function.

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Published January, 2012
By T. Hori, Robert W. Ridge, Walter Tulecke, Peter Del Tredici, Jocelyne Tremouillaux-Guiller and Hiroshi Tobe
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Interest in this unique plant has grown dramatically over the last 10 years, and this book provides an overview and recent findings concerning cell biology, biochemistry, development, morphology, phylogeny, paleobotany, as well as possible applications in chemistry and medicine.

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Published January, 2012
By Osamu Sugimoto
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In America and Europe, carbon dioxide has been widely used as the distention medium in hysteroscopy, in contrast to the widespread use of liquid hysteroscopy in Japan.

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Published January, 2012
By Hiroshi Tomita
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The Second Meeting of the International Society for Trace Element Research in Humans (ISTERH) was held in Tokyo from August 28 through September 1,1989. On August 27, the day preceding the opening of the meeting, a typhoon made a direct attack on Tokyo, welcoming guests from all over the world in a rather violent way.

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Published January, 2012
By Norio Nakamura, Takuo Hashimoto and Masaharu Yasue
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The dawn of neurosurgery can be traced back to the first description preserved in the Edwin Smith papyrus' (3000 Be) which dealt with head and spinal injury. The meeting was first named "International Conference on Recent Advances in Neurotrauma tology" (ICRAN) by Professor Phillip Harris, when the scientific meeting was held in Edinburgh in 1982.

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Published January, 2012
By Tatsuo Sato and Toshifumi Iizuka
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It is essential to know all of the intricate lymph pathways when performing surgery for esophageal cancer in order to determine the extent of lymph node metastasis.

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Published January, 2012
By Norihiko Tamaki and Satoshi Matsumoto
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Published January, 2012
By Kusuya Nishioka, Hiroshi Suzuki, Shunji Mishiro and Toshitsugu Oda
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The major topics in our book include molecular biology of the five known hepatitis viruses (HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, and HEV), clinical implications of genetic variants of HBV and HCV, interferon treatment of HCV-related liver disease, and worldwide epidemiology and control of viral hepatitis.

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Published January, 2012
By Hisakazu Yasuda and Hideaki Kawaguchi
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The contents may be divided into five categories: 1) the process of ischemic myocardial damage in heart failure, 2) biochemical abnormalities in cardiomyopathy, 3) signal transduction in diseased myocardial cells, 4) electrophysiological abnormalities of the failing heart, and 5) recent concepts in drug therapy.

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Published January, 2012
By Hajime Ishikura and Masayoshi Namiki
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Three types of worm, Anisakis simplex larva (previously known as Anisakis larva type I), Anisakis physeteris larva (Anisakis larva type II), and Pseudoterranova decipiens larva type A, are believed to cause anisakiasis.

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