Medical Simulation has become a standard training tool for novice providers and master clinicians alike. In a controlled environment, everything fr...

This book provides a didactic and fluid approach for medical students and interns, and enables them to understand and integrate the major themes of...

Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures that otolaryngologists perform. Early in residency, most trainees are heavily influenced by thei...

Tissue engineering is a multi-disciplinary field that is continually evolving and functions through the amalgamation of principles and practices de...

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an entity whose diagnosis is not always easy. The PID comprises a wide range of clinical forms ranging from ba...

Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is the most frequent condition inside the pemphigus group, especially in Europe and North America. It is the prototype of a...

This book gathers all up-to-date information regarding the historical perspectives, clinical manifestations, pathomechanism, diagnostic methodology...

Aims and Scope: Although penile cancer is uncommon in the industrialized world, it is highly prevalent in certain regions of the globe such as Sout...

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has entered its third decade, as it had gone through a PTCA era, BMS era, and entered into the DES era. Th...

The increasing number of small renal tumours being detected had led to the recent development of nephron-sparing surgery. Cryotherapy has become an...

Percutaneous valve technology has received tremendous interest in the last few years from both clinicians and public as a direct result of advancem...

This volume is based on a highly successful conference dedicated to Perinatal brain damage: from pathogenesis to neuroprotection. Neonatologists, p...

There has been a shift in the delivery of trauma and orthopaedic services from the specialised to the sub-specialised, while being coupled with a g...

In this compilation, the authors discuss peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare but serious form of heart failure affecting women in the last mon...

This is a concise summary of information on the incidence, diagnosis, classification and non-surgical treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD)....

This book is a review of studies on the physiopharmacology of the peripheral fibres involved in nociception. It examines the substances that are di...

Peripheral neuropathy is a common medical condition, the diagnosis of which is often protracted or delayed. It is not always easy to relate a neuro...

Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of death among all gynecological neoplasms. Ovarian epithelial cancer represents approximately 90% of all o...

This book provides new research on peritoneal dialysis (PD). Chapter One reviews the practices and principles of peritoneal dialysis. Chapter Two f...

This book describes the different aspects of aortic valve including comprehensive discussion of the state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging options, di...

This book presents and discusses current research in the study of Alzheimer's disease. Topics discussed include Alzheimer's disease in adults with ...

Natural products are the most successful source of drugs. Of the 877 small-molecule new chemical entities introduced between 1981 and 2002, roughly...