This full-color text and atlas, provides a complete overview of the structural alterations of important nervous system diseases, along with their clinical manifestations. Readers will understand the goals of the neuropathologic exam, the histologic reaction of neural tissue to diseases, and the pathologic conditions particular to the nervous system. All topics are highlighted by gross and histologic images of the brain and spinal cord, and all integrate the most recent scientific studies.
While usually not life threatening, headaches can be debilitating. And they are often a symptom more serious conditions. With pictures obtained from PET, CT, MRI, and other modern imaging techniques An Atlas of Headache presents full color illustrations and a clinician's review on the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of headaches. It provides you with a complete and comprehensive picture of the state-of-the-art in this field.
Written by a team of highly regarded scientists with a vast experience of the subject, An Atlas of Back Pain not only explains how to determine the underlying causes of patients' conditions but also describes the various treatment options available. It provides an easily accessible guide to all aspects of back pain and its differential diagnosis. Richly illustrated, the atlas contains more than 130 X-rays, CT scans, MRI images, and color pictures of both pathology and surgery. The expertly described techniques and procedures combined with the exceptional illustrations enhance the book's value as a resource for teaching, residency training, and clinical practice.
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
The answers are in this groundbreaking book by two founders of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine, who deftly synthesize the latest research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's and from cancer to Huntington's chorea. Why We Get Sick compels readers to reexamine the age-old attitudes toward sickness. Line drawings.
Pulmonary Manifestations of Pediatric Diseases is the first comprehensive, practical book strictly focused on diagnosing and treating the full spectrum of respiratory complications of non-pulmonary diseases. Pediatric pulmonologists and other expert specialists present their up-to-date and balanced perspectives on new approaches to therapy and recent advances on everything from HIV/AIDS and transplantation to postoperative complications. The contributors are some of the most distinguished and recognizable physicians in their fields giving you the benefit of accumulated insight and experience.
