Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty. The book crystallizes the knowledge and experience accrued by those dealing with ballistic trauma on a regular basis and extends this to those who have to manage these...

An understanding of virus infection and the underlying role of the immune system in protection against these diseases is vital in today’s medical climate. Previously, only symptoms could be treated, as there were no antiviral therapies. The increasing amounts of research and the huge number of discoveries of immunologic agents and...

Thoroughly revised 2nd edition includes the most recent guidance to an accurate mortem diagnosis from the Royal College of Pathologists and...

This text includes sections on anatomy, normal and abnormal physiology, investigation techniques, inflammatory conditions and treatment options. The international panel of contributors is at the forefront of research in the field; the editors have assembled these contributors and topics that span the entire range of pelvic floor disorders in...

The second revised and updated edition is an easily comprehensible and practical handbook, companion or aide-memoire for the diagnostic pathologist in the routine histopathology reporting of the common cancers. It also incorporates the Current WHO Histological Classification, the Royal College of Pathologists minimum data sets and 6th edition...

With rising prevalence of urinary incontinence and prolapse in aging population in the Western world there is an increasing need for knowledge about this subject. This handy pocketbook summarizes the practical patient management, based upon the available evidence and author’s own clinical experience, and indicates controversial areas...

This book empowers the obstetrician-gynecologist to play a key coordinating role, and to communicate effectively with all parties and health workers involved in psychological care. It provides information not typically covered by their training: communication skills, coping and adjustment in pregnancy, and communicating with cancer patients....

Emphasis on international health-informatics topics, such as better access of states / countries to modern e-health technologies developed by...

The book has consistent chapter organization relevant to...

A practical manual covering the full spectrum of PET and PET/CT imaging, now in common clinical practice, this book includes images of normal variants, artifacts, and pathologic conditions. Indications for and the relative clinical value of PET in the armamentarium of diagnostic medical imaging are reviewed. The information in the book is...

"Atlas of Staging in Gynecological Cancer" is designed to be used in conjunction with diagnostic procedures between the surgeon and the radiologist. It describes the two common staging regimes used by all units across the world, namely, the FIGO staging system and the TNM system. The ‘landscape’ format allows each...

Contained within this short volume are some of the Key Clinical Trials relating to the medical treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). In an attempt to understand the potential significance, a critique of the studies’ strengths and weaknesses is included as well as a diagrammatic summary of the trial design and key results. Most of the...