Diseases and disorders

Throughout the centuries, inflammation has been considered as a disease in itself.

Two years ago, about twenty people gathered informally in our institute to discuss mitosis.

With the introduction of antibiotics acute inflammatory disease has ceased to be the dominant problem in general medical practice and its place is now increasingly occupied by chronic inflamma- tory disease of which the rheumatic diseases constitute the most important group.

Expression of an immune response is the net result of complex synergis- tic and antagonistic activities performed by a variety of cell types.

On February 21 and 22, 1975, an International Workshop on the "e;Genetics of Diabetes Mellitus"e; was held in Gottingen, West-Germany.

Symposium on Lipoprotein Metabolism, held in Heidelberg, September 10-13, 1975

Prominent progress in molecular biology was only made when it became possible to separate functionally distinct molecules by taking advantage of their biophysical properties.

Das Ziel vorliegender Studie ist es, möglichst umfassend die Veröf­ fentlichungen über das Zusammentreffen von Gravidität und Tumor zu erfassen.

Breast cancer is probably the most frequent and fatal neoplasm in women of the western world, and it causes more fear, suffering and morbidity than any other disease in our times.

This book is based on the Symposium "e;Metabolic Regulation and Functional Activity in the Central Nervous System"e; which was held on September 16 and 17, 1972, at Saint- Vincent (Aosta)/Italy, and was sponsored by the Accademia di Medicina di Torino with the scientific cooperation of the Istituto di Farmacologia, Universita di Torino, and the Pharmakologisches Institut der Freien Universitat Berlin.

Four decades ago, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus was discovered, at about the same time and independently, in 3 different localities in the U.

This book contains a selection of the proceedings of the Second Meeting of the European Association for Behaviour Therapy and Modification, and of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Behavioural Engineering Association.

The control of cancer is at once a major public health problem and a problem of fundamental biologic interest.

Jean BERNARD * I should like to begin with an assumption and a paradox.

This volume contains papers presented at a symposium on "e;The Role of Lympho- cytes and Macrophages in the Immunological Response"e; at the XIII International Congress of Haematology, Munich, August 1970.

International Symposium held at the Battelle Seattle Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA, 23 - 26 June 1974

""Dieses Buch macht auch den Nicht-Betroffenen betroffen - gleichzeitig macht es Mut.

Bone and joint tuberculosis is common in developing countries, and surgeons in these countries are often faced with the dual problem of diagnosing and treating this disease.

The Second Autumn Course on Mathematical Ecology was held at the Intern- ational Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy in November and December of 1986.

Hyperthermia has been found to be of great benefit in combination with radiation therapy or chemotherapy in the management of patients with difficult and com- plicated tumor problems.

This book has been edited by two of the best known experts in the field of breast diseases.

Rectal cancer is a major killer.

Cellular transformation and carcinogenesis are considered a multistep process starting with DNA lesions and progressing through loss of cellular growth control and increase invasive and metastatic properties.

This book, edited by Prof.

The incidence, diagnosis, and treatment of gynecologic cancer have undergone major changes during the past 20 years.

One of the most amazing and spectacular developments in modern radiology has been the rapid growth and expansion of so-called interventional radiology, which can also be described as minimally invasive therapy guided by radiological imaging.

Bladder cancer represents a major challenge to the oncologist.

Many different opinions exist as to the appropriate diagnostic workup and therapy for spinal tumors.

In this volume an account is given of the technologies relevant to the detection of sentinel lymph nodes in the context of surgical oncology.

PET in Oncology describes the principles of positron emission tomography and is a useful resource for incorporating the technique in clinical practice.

Pharmacologic interventions to prevent the evolution of human cancers are still in its infancy, although a good number o- mostly controlled - clinical studies have been performed in the past two decades.

Advanced routine imaging techniques have made it possible to diagnose localized abnormalities often before they have produced irreversible damage.

This book provides a clinically oriented overview on the patho-physiological background and the use of bisphosphonates in oncology.