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* The only text to cover lung function assessment from first principles including methodology, reference values and interpretation
* New for this edition:
- More illustrations to convey concepts clearly to the busy physician
- Text completely re-written in a contemporary style: includes user-friendly equations and more diagrams

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Urological problems encompass a wide range of both distressing and potentially life threatening conditions and the number of general practice presentations is growing rapidly due to the increasing age of the population.

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“Basics of Oncology” provides an easily understood and general overview of the basic medical, scientific and clinical aspects of cancer. Causes, pathology, clinical features, diagnostic investigations, treatments and outcomes are all carefully explained and discussed, both for cancers in general and for the common cancers in individual countries. The reader will thereby be provided with an understanding of how and why people develop cance.

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This represents an unique book providing a simplified approach to interpreting most diagnostic tests in the field of respiratory medicine. Easy to understand and practical containing more than 125 illustrated diagrams and over 50 tables containing key information designed to summarize certain interpretative approaches in a simple and understandable fashion and including 30 illustrative examples that apply the same principles.

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The emergency treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI)-one of the leading causes of death throughout the world-with immediate cardiac cathterization and percutaneous coronary intervention, or primary angioplasty, is now considered the optimal approach to this deadly disorder. In Primary Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction, Second Edition, leading investigators and experienced clinicians collect and summarize the world’s literature and augment this with practical wisdom concerning this critically important form of care.

* Complete text for undergraduate students of dentistry as per new syllabus requirement (Dental Council of India, BDS Course Regulation, 2006).
* Complete, accessible and up-to-date.
* Clarity of presentation and simple lucid language.
* Background information on physiological and pathological processes and disease manifestations imparts better comprehension.
* Prototype drugs discussed in detail and other drugs of the group are mentioned with their main characteristics.

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Pandemic influenza occurs when a novel influenza virus appears that causes readily transmissible human illness against which most of the population lacks immunity. Several features set pandemic influenza apart from other public health emergencies or community disasters.

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A popular topic and application in sports medicine, Allografts are examined at length in this issue, Guest Edited by expert Darren L. Johnson. Johnson and a host of contributors discuss all aspects of allografts, from the Safety and Preparation of Allograft Tissue to the Biology of Allograft Incorporation, from Meniscal Allografts to PCL Reconstruction using Allograft Tissue. Other articles look at Collateral Ligament Augmentation versus Reconstruction using Allograft Tissue, allografts versus autografts, the Future Role of Allografts in Sports Medicine, and more!

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Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology is reviewed in this issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics, guest edited by Dr. S. Paige Hertweck. Authorities in the field have come together to pen articles on Genital Trauma, Urologic Issues, Endometriosis in the Adolescent, Adolescent STIs, Intersex Disorders, Mullerian Anomalies, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome in the Adolescent, Bleeding Disorders in Adolescents, Thrombophilial Conditions in the Adolescent, Adolescent Contraception, Management of Abnormal Cervical Cytology in the Adolescent, and Premature Ovarian Failure/Turner Syndrome in the Adolescent.

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The bone marrow failure syndromes include a group of disorders than can be either inherited or acquired. These diseases are disorders of the hematopoietic stem cell that can involve either one cell line or all of the cell lines (erythroid for red cells, myeloid for white blood cells, megakaryocytic for platelets).