Clinical and internal medicine

Although plasma cell tumors are still an enigma, the authorprovides an excellent overview of all aspects of examinationand treatment of gammopathies, based on 30 years ofexperience examining more than 1500 patients.

The impact of basic science radiobiological research is now being recognized of significant importance in clinical radiation oncology.

The Yearbook compiles the most recent, widespreaddevelopments of experimental and clinical research andpractice in one comprehensive reference book.

As the demographics of the population shift toward an increasingly aged society, the number of individuals with cancer increases and with it the need to give the most comprehensive possible health care delivery.

The development of new techniques such as immuno- phenotyping, cytogenetic investigations and, more recently, molecular studies has considerably increased our diagnostic repertoire and broadened our ideas about the biology of acute leukemias.

Biologists and radiotherapists present their experimentalwork and clinical data in the field of radiation injuries ofnormal tissues and organs.

Die Beurteilung der Krankheitsverläufe von Tumorpatienten und deren Prognose bedarf - ebenso wie die onkologische Qualitätskontrolle - einer systematischen Dokumentation.

In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed.

The detection of cancer risk factors and their possible avoid- ance would most effectively contribute to the fight against cancer.

An intimate relation between hormones and lipoprotein metabolism has been known for a long time especially from hormone-deficiency or -overproduction syndromes.

In this book the current knowledge on human cytomegalovirus(HCMV) as a human pathogen is lucidly summarized, bringingthe reader fully up to date with current knowledgeconcerning HCMV and all the known clincial and medicalaspects of diseases caused by, and associated with, HCMV.

This volume contains contributions by well-known scientistsand clinicians in the fields of microbiology, infectiousdiseases, physiology, internal medicine, surgery,anaesthesiology, and intensive care medicine.

The use of hyperthermia in radiation oncology is well established.

The basis for the effective treatment and cure of a patient is the rapid diagnosis of the disease and its causative agent, which is based on the analysis of the clinical symptoms coupled with laboratory tests.

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Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma is a rare thyroid tumororiginating from neural crest cells, the C-cell that impliesseveral special features, secretion of differentneuroendocrine markers, association with other endocrinetumors and familial appearance.

Advances in breast cancer research, achieved through the progress of knowledge and development of new therapies, have been translated into improved quality of care for breast cancer patients.

The Yearbook 1992 continues one part of the traditionestablished by the publication of updates.

Hauptthemen: Probleme der Langzeittherapie und Therapieschäden - Die ischämische Herzkrankheit - Herzinsuffizienz - Neue Infektionskrankheiten - Neue Aspekte der Arteriosklerose.

Hopes to develop apolipoproteins for diagnostic or, evenbetter, therapeuticpurposes are growing.

From molecules to populations and back In biology, the most vigorous organisms often ensue from a union of two disparate, pure lines.

Provided here is a comprehensive examination of the basicand clinical condition of three innovative and promisingapproaches to cancer therapy, which may support or evensubstitute chemotherapy: differentiation, immunomodulation,and inhibition of angiogenesis.

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Malignancies originating from the urogenital tract account for about 20% of all solid neoplasias.

This book reviews the most recent developments in the patho-physiology and therapy of ventilatory failure.

The essays in this book discuss the role that chemicalagents in the environment play in the development of cancer.

The diagnosis of cancer in a child is a devastating finding not only to the parents but often to the child.

Knowledge of tumours of the salivary glands has advanced consider- ably in the two decades that have elapsed since work was started on the first edition of Histological Typing of Salivary Gland Tumours.

One person in four in the industrialized countries suffersfrom hyperuricemia and is therefore at risk of developinggouty arthritis, nephrolithiasis, or any of the otherconsequences of urate deposition.

Pathobiology of Human Germ Cell Neoplasia is a state-of-the-art compendium on a very recent branch of tumor biology.

The methods of interventional neuroradiology represent a distinct and difficult branch with- in the new field of interventional radiology.

Significant recent advances in the imaging of the lower urinary tract are comprehensively presented in this handbook.

A comprehensive survey of recent advances is given in this Update.

Leading workers in the field of human reproduction provideboth basic knowledge and useful practical information inthis book about the most critical phase in the developmentof a new human being: the first twelve weeks of life.

Das Buch enthält die Übersichtsreferate und Gastvorlesungen, die auf der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft im August/September 1990 in Hannover gehalten wurden.

Teil I des Verhandlungsberichtes 1991 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für HNO-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie enthält die Hauptreferate, die von besonderen Sachkennern für die Jahresversammlung geschrieben wurden.

To give an update in the field of haemostasis scientists andclinicians fromoverseas and European countries met to dis-cuss the new trends in pathophysiology and clinical impli-cations.

Interest and research in urinary enzymology were incited about three decades ago by reports that urinary enzymes are elevated in diseases of the kidney and urinary tract.

Teil II des Verhandlungsberichtes enthält die Vorträge und Diskussionen der Jahesversmmlung 1990.