With ever increasing demands on the constrained resources available for health care services, no one involved in decision making in health care can continue to ignore the economic costs of the services provided or the relative value for money offered by the available treatments.
International abgesicherte Klassifikationen von Nebenwirkungen in der Onkologie - anwendbar in Praxis, Klinik und klinischer Forschung - stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses Werkes.
Arachidonic acid metabolites are known to playa regulatory role in a number of biological systems, in which they function as microenviron- mental hormones and intracellular signal mediators.
A large body of information about possible causes of cancer has been ac- cumulated by both clinical experience in man and observations in animal experiments.
Tumours of the hand are highly varied, their only common feature being their location in an organ in which preservation of sensation and mobility must be our primary concern.
This book reports on the current state of knowledge about adreno- ceptors and their involvement in the pathogenesis and treatment of high blood pressure.
The present volume of "e;Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology"e; is a series of papers on subjects that are relevant to the growing use of 'wild mice' in immunological, microbiological and genetical research.
The development and the widespread clinical application of various di- agnostic imaging modalities, such as diagnostic ultrasonography, X-ray computed tomography, single photon emission computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, have been beyond all expectation.
The foundation needed for the understanding and hence the treatment of a disease is a knowledge of the natural morphology and physiology of the affected organ and the system to which it belongs.
The last decade has witnessed rapid progress in our under- standing of the mechanisms of protein export and secretion in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
In a period of controversial attitudes to thyroid cancer, this book aims to correlate recent progress in basic sciences with new clinical management possibilities.
After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field.
This book, the seventh in the series Exercises in Radiological Diagnosis, deals with sonography, an imaging procedure in which the ability of the radiologist plays an exceptionally important role.
These exercises are meant for students and practitioners who wish to familiarize themselves with the normal and pathologieal computerized tomographie radioanatomy of the abdomen.
Just a very few years after Edler and Hertz had described the clinical use of M-mode echocardiographyl Satomura reported the application of Dop- 2 pler ultrasound to the study of cardiac function.
Die Elektrokardiographie gehört bereits seit der Einführung des Sai tengalvanometers durch Einthoven im Jahre 1903 zum festen Be stand der kardiologischen Diagnostik in der Klinik und der Praxis.
