Clinical and internal medicine

Research on aplastic anaemia has until recently been limited to clinical description, morphology and epidemiology.

The introduction of computed tomography in the diagnosis of pathological intracranial conditions has had considerable significance in cases of cranio- cerebral injury.

Bone marrow transplantation, the goal which integrates hemato- logists, immunologists, geneticists, oncologists and specialists of several other fields, has overcome its state of stagnation in recent years.

Since 1955, we have conducted an annual one-week ECG course at Innsbruck.

The aim of this book is to give an up to date account of recent developments in the field of cardiomyopathy.

This two-and-a-half-day symposium has concentrated on main aspects of the rapidly expanding field ofleukocyte markers in hematology.

The purpose of this book, which is written mainly for pharmacothera- pists, is to draw the physician's attentions, through specific examples, to iatrogenic (i.

The diagnostic relevance of results, obtained by myocardial biopsy has not yet been defined.

Echocardiography has recently become one of' the most important techniques in clinical cardiology.

The International Council of Ophthalmology agreed to the creation of an International Glaucoma Committee, which should have a limited number of members, 40 at a maximum.

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The varying cancer incidence from country to country and region to region suggests that en- vironmental factors play a considerable role in the aetiology of cancer.

In den zurückliegenden Jahren haben in London (1973), Louvain-Ia-Neuve (1975) und New York (1977) 3 Symposien über die Biochemie der beiden Eisenstoffwechselproteine Ferritin und Transferrin stattgefunden.

The two organs of the body most accessible to examination are the eye and the skin and its appendages.

Many bone lesions have a characteristic roentgen appearance, while others create diagnostic dilemmas not only for the radiologist, but also for the pathologist and surgeon.

The 28th annual conference of the German Society for Neurosurgery was held in Cologne, West Germany, from the 18th to the 21st of September 1977.

Der außerordentlich große Zuwachs an Wissen seit der ersten Auflage dieses Handbuches vor rund 70 Jahren dokumentiert sich in den hier vorliegenden bei den Bänden, die das Gebiet der klinischen Osteologie in repräsentativer Form zur Darstellung bringen.

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

Even though numerous questions with regard to the pathogenesis of athero- sclerosis have not yet been answered, the accumulated evidence indicates significant regression of lesions in experimental animals.

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

The study of ocular fine structure under physiologic and experimental conditions is a relatively young branch of ophthalmic research, requiring a high degree of specialization.

Cytological techniques have greatly improved in the last twenty years, largely as a result of further development of the microscope.

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From 11 to 15 July 1977 about 60 physiologists, endo- crinologists, ecologists and other biologists from 14 countries convened at the University Montpellier for a symposium on Environmental Endocrinology.

Since the respiratory airways branch to all parts of the lungs and ready access is provided through the nose or mouth, exploration of these passages for direct visualization or tissue sampling has long been a clinical challenge.