Clinical and internal medicine

In the past ten years, there have been significant advances in the diagnosis and therapy of arterial vascular disease.

The present book contains the original papers and essential points of the general discussion of a meeting organized in a series of tri-annual conferences, initiated by Dr.

During the past decade, the prognosis of bone and soft tissue tumors has improved considerably.

This book has its roots in a monograph on cancer of the esophagus and gastric cardia edited by us in 1965 and published in Chinese on- ly.

On the occasion of a research visit to Thailand in my capacity as a member of the governing board of the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, I saw for the first time the severe clinical picture of dengue with haemorrhagic symptoms among Thai children.

The aim of this symposium was to provide a framework for fruitful discussion on intestinal transport, not only for advanced scientists but also for younger people starting in this field of research.

The second Committee Meeting of the Glaucoma Society of the International Congress of Ophthalmology was held in Carmel Valley ICalifornia from October 22-27, 1982.

On behalf of the organizing committee of this symposium, I would like to wel- come you to Cologne and thank you very much for coming.

This book of diagnostic exercises cannot be used to good advantage without a good grasp of elementary sonoanatomy and the most common pathologic l images .

Scientists and engineers have been involved in medical radiology from the very beginning.

Asked to organize an international meeting on Propafenone (Ryt- monorm) we had to question ourselves, whether to accept this offer just as interested physicians or in our capacity as chairmen of the study group on arrhythmias and intracardiac electrography of the European Society of Cardiology.

More than a century ago, Cripps successfully employed the direct and complete division of the anal sphincters as a means of approaching the lower rectum and anal canal, and reported on a series of 36 patients who had been treated in that fashion.

Die gegenwärtige Einstellung der Anaesthesiologen zur Praxis der kontrollierten Hypotension ist zwiespältig: die einen verteidigen sie nachdrücklich als Bereicherung der Anaesthesie­ Technik, die anderen stehen ihr skeptisch gegenüber oder lehnen sie als sinnlos und ge­ fahrlich ab [17, 18,24,25,27,32,36,55,59,102].

The Organon Symposia have actually become a tradition, keeping up with exciting developments in reproductive medicine.

Die Bilddarstellung der Prostata mittels transrektaler, transver­ saler Sonographie und die sich daraus ergebende klinische Re­ levanz wurde erstmals in Japan erarbeitet.

Hepatology has come of age in the last decades.

Nonsurgical Biliary Drainage is a survey of the currentstatus of the endoscopic and percutaneous transhepaticapproaches.

Als im Jahre 1978 Herr Professor Mayrhofer die Frage an mich herantrug, ob ich bereit wäre, eine Monographie über die kardio­ pulmonale Wiederbelebung zu verfassen, habe ich sie ohne zu zö­ gern und mit Freude, mit Ja beantwortet.

Peter A.

The stratum corneum is a magnificent example of the successful adaptation of a tissue.

In conjunction with the Twelfth International Congress of Gerontology, the Carl-Korth Institute for Cardiovascular Research organized an international symposium on "e;Beta- Blockers in the Elderly.