"An outstanding and practical book focusing on women's health...Serves as a ready diagrammatic for discussions with patients in the office setting as well as a well-organized and succinct review of the major medical and surgical problems encountered in our specialty...We would highly suggest the purchase of Netter's Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, an investment that will pay big dividends." - Journal of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology This comprehensive clinical reference uses a quick-reference tabular format to present the major diseases and conditions traditionally seen in the practice of obstetrics and gynecology as well as general medical conditions commonly seen in women. More than 200 topics and over 300 Netter illustrations are included.

This richly illustrated textbook and atlas brings together high-quality, color colpophotographs that highlight all the variations seen in colposcopic practice. Its unique organization highlights the correlations between cytology, colposcopy, and histology, just as is needed when examining patients. Each chapter addresses a specific topic, from basic science to clinical colposcopy, written and edited by a well-known, recognized expert. Atlas images are incorporated into the text alongside relevant discussions, and de*ive graphics clarify topics such as low and high grade CIN, and cancer and glandular lesions. Easy-to-read bulleted information throughout the chapters emphasizes key points and makes information easy to locate. Multiple authors represent a collaboration of the best and most prestigious investigators and clinicians in the field, writing on their individual areas of expertise. Many high-quality, color colpophotographs promote critical pattern recognition skills that are fundamental to c

Since 1980, Dr. Osborn's An Introduction to Cerebral Angiography has been the definitive text on this imaging modality. Now, this classic work has been completely revised, reorganized, and updated and expanded from an introductory book into a comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference on cerebral angiography. Diagnostic Cerebral Angiography, Second Edition, is organized into three major parts. Part 1 covers techniques and technical aspects of cerebral angiography. Part 2 is a detailed de*ion of normal anatomy, anatomic variations, and congenital anomalies. Part 3 focuses on pathological entities, including trauma, aneurysms, stroke, vascular malformations, atherosclerosis, and vasculitis. Coverage includes new information on vascular territories, film subtraction, and magnetic resonance angiography. The text is thoroughly illustrated with 1,200 radiographs and line drawings, all of them new to this volume. Another new feature of this Second Edition is the use of boxed summaries throughout the text to highlight

"Legal Medicine" was one of the first books available to doctors in search of answers to legal questions. As the leader in medico-legal knowledge, this new, sixth edition is the source for health care practitioners' legal medicine needs. It highlights those issues in health care that constitute potential pitfalls and problems of a legal nature. Now, brought completely up to date, this unparalleled resource remains most reliable text available on the legal implications of medical practice.

ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL PATHOLOGY deals with the nature, identification, and management of diseases affecting the oral and maxillofacial regions. An invaluable reference for the dental office and the ultimate learning aid for students, it includes the most comprehensive collection of full-color clinical images and patient x-rays available today. This new 2nd Edition is completely revised and updated to provide the latest information on etiology, clinical features, histopathology, treatment, and prognosis for each disease entity. Over 850 illustrations are now presented in full color, bringing the subject matter to life. The new full-color presentation allows for easy comparison of soft tissue lesions and facilitates classification of all lesions of the oral and maxillofacial region.

This textbook covers the whole of ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery, i.e., eyelid, lacrimal, orbital, and socket surgery, at a basic level. It is aimed at ophthalmologists worldwide. It covers what any fully trained ophthalmologist should know about the subject, to enable him/her to practise with competence and confidence.

The book features several new chapters and is divided into seven secti ons covering: the nature of diabetes mellitus; screening and diagnosis ; long-term management; complications; concomitant problems; socioecon omic problems; and the development and evaluation of diabetes care pro grams. Inside, you'll find insightful analysis of epidemiology, pathop hysiology, patient adherence, the latest research, and more. Plus, the book provides state-of-the-art information on everything from new ins ulin analogues and treatment methods to diabetes education and the sig nificance of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial.

This best-selling text has established itself as an authoritative resource for nurses and other health workers wishing to develop their skills in health promotion. Following the success of the first edition, Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach has been expanded and updated in response to national and international developments in policy and action to achieve Health for All. It urges a renewed commitment to the Primary Health Care approach and provides practical guidelines to enable health workers to do this. The text presents an approach to health promotion based on the principles of social justice, equity, community participation, intersectoral action and the development of sustainable, balanced health care systems. It then examines a variety of strategies of use to health workers in the health promotion process,including health education, community development, group work, working with the mass media and the development of healthy public policy.

As close as you can get to working in and actual lab——Diagnostic Skills in Clinical Laboratory Science presents case studies for you to solve. This unique manual/CD-ROM package gives you what you need to… *Assess and enhance your problem-solving and decision-making skills in each clinical discipline including hematology, chemistry, and microbiology *Interpret technical information and correlate it with a simulated clinical situation *Review what you have learned and apply it to resolving commonly encountered laboratory problems In Diagnostic Skills in Clinical Laboratory Science you work with *Multidisciplinay patient cases that build critical-thinking skills *Laboratory tests to review and interpret *Patient clinical history and progress reports *A simulated LIS to retrieve laboratory data *Internal links to selected reference material In line with the latest curriculum guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science, this realistic simulation of act

This is a revised and updated edition of a text used inundergraduate courses on cancer biology. It covers everything fromthe molecular basis of cancer to clinical aspects of the subject,and has a lengthy bibliography designed to assist newcomers withthe cancer literature. An introduction acquaints students with thebiological principles of cancer and the human dimensions of thedisease by considering genuine cases of cancer in fictionalizedletters. Other chapters discuss cancer pathology, metastasis,carcinogenesis, genetics, oncogenes and tumor suppressors,epidemiology, and the biological basis of cancer treatment. Alsoincluded are an appendix with de*ions of common forms ofcancer, a glossary of cancer-related terms and colour plates toillustrate the pathology of many of the types of cancer discussedin the text. Upper-division undergraduates with a background infreshman biology and chemistry, as well as beginning graduatestudents will find this a valuable text.

From the popular series in JAMA comes a state of the art book from the authors who coined the term evidence-based medicine. Edited by Gordon Guyatt, MD, and Drummond Rennie, MD, this highly innovative book enables physicians to quickly grasp efficient ways to use published literature in their clinical practice to improve their caregiving to patients. A fully searchable and hyperlinked CD, co-edited by Robert Hayward, MD, is included with each book. With the most current evidence based medicine thinking, you can understand how to individualize evidence to each patient, obtain tips on how to find the information you need and how to make the optimal use of it in your practice, balance benefits and risks that precede medical management decisions, distinguish between strong and weak evidence, and understand detailed critical appraisal and summarization of evidence.

"Diseases of the Ocular Fundus", the winner of Royal Society of Medicine Book Awards 2005, is a comprehensive and very practical approach to all aspects of fundus diseases including retina, vitreous, choroid, tumors of the fundus and optic nerve disease. The authors provide both the diagnostic framework and offer advice on management options for all diseases the ophthalmologist will counter.Illustrated in full color throughout with over 1150 photographs (850 in color) and over 180 line drawings, this book provides the reader with an outstanding visual reference. It includes clinical cases with both pre and post-treatment histories that provide an invaluable guide to patient management. "Diseases of the Ocular Fundus" is a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of ocular fundus diseases and will be an invaluable guide to both the general ophthalmologist, and particularly to ophthalmologists in training. It will also be an excellent source for optometrists in practice and training.

Don't leave home without it - a sure-fire hit for virtually all of your medical science and general medical teaching。 Few things at university will last you from Freshers' Week to Finals。but this book should！ It is hard to see how other medical textbooks will not be deficient compared to this one, with its numerous outstanding features - full colour photos and text, summary and "at a glance" boxes and coverage of all the medical sciences, clinical skills and clinical topics in a fully integrated fashion。 It's almost as if the pertinent parts of the standard pre-clinical texts have been cut and pasted into a book written by doctors, for doctors-to-be。 Medical students have had to wait a long time for this kind of book to come along，SHO - London。

Keeping current with the latest developments in obstetrics and gynaecology is essential to medical practice and the welfare of your patients. This must-have resource will provide you with an up-to-date examination of the key issues related to obstetrics and gynaecology. With this single resource, you will be able to access the most current, reliable information on all relevant topics, written by the leading clinicians and researchers in the field.

Probabilistic methods are assuming greater significance in the analysis of nucleotide sequence data. This book provides the first unified, up-to-date and self-contained account of such methods, and more generally of probabilistic methods of sequence analysis, presented in a Bayesian framework.

During the first half of the 20th century, the infectious causes of many common childhood diseases became widely understood. The lives of numerous children were saved by improving sanitation, educating parents about hygiene and the communicability of diseases, and immunizing children against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and smallpox. Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children is the 10th edition of a book by Krugman and Ward first published in 1958 (St. Louis: Mosby). A comparison of the two editions is an occasion to assess progress in the past 40 years. In the light of the achievements of Enders, Weller, Sabin, Salk, and others, Krugman and Ward wrote of living in the golden age of viruses. Although the crisis brought on by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) could not have been anticipated, the authors' optimism has been justified by the success of vaccines for poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rabies, and rotavirus infection. In contrast to the account in th

Updated and expanded to be even more comprehensive, this text explains how to manage various arthritic conditions. The information included in this book spans a wide range, assisting a reader in any kind of clinical or academic setting. The content is divided into seventeen well-organized chapters, and the author provides thorough evidence-based documentation and references when available.

A specialist U.K. English language learning course book for nurses who are non-native speakers of U.K. English. The book is intended for self study but would serve as a major resource for a taught course. The book presents examples of formal medical U.K. English, colloquialisms, idioms and clinical notes. The user practices reading and writing through exercises and the language is introduced through the medium of a series of simulated clinical cases. The first part contains text and exercises which are `about' nursing in the NHS-the crisis, what nurses say about the crisis, the hospital hierarchy, pay and conditions, applying for jobs, etc. The second part is about communication in a simulated hospital setting. At its core are clinical forms relating to admission, patient care and hospital discharge. These forms and clinical documents generate exercises, which practice parts of language (idiomatic phrases, etc.) The book will be highly illustrated assisting with the clarity and understandin

This concise overview of renal physiology introduces basic science principles and their relevance in the clinical expression of disease. Each chapter incorporates a wealth of pedagogical aids including: study questions, learning objectives, and clinical examples. Also serves as a good review for the USMLE Step 1. 作者简介： Douglas C. Eaton, Ph.D.: Distinguished Professor, Department of Physiology; and Director, Center for Cell and Molecular Signaling, Emory University Medical School, Atlanta John Pooler, Ph.D.: Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology, Emory University Medical School, Atlanta .

QBase Anaesthesia 3 is the third volume in the QBase series of book + CD-ROM packages and is aimed at the FRCA candidate. Both the book and CD contain 555 questions divided into a number of pre-set exams (with accompanying fully referenced explanatory notes) and there are also a number of pre-set short exams to attempt, utilising the questions in the book. The CD-ROM can be installed in seconds and gives the reader an incredible range of options, greatly increasing the utility and value of the book. Not only can the reader practice the set exams, but the program will mark these exams, allow the reader to customize exams to focus in on areas requiring further revision, shuffle the stems (A-E) to prevent the candidate from memorising 'patterns' and advise on examination strategy. It also has the facility to print out and store test results and provide helpful notes on each question. The CD-ROM accompanying this volume has been improved so that the exam analysis now gives a subject-based as well as an overall an