Medical specialties, branches of medicine

Dieser Band befaßt sich mit dem Einfluß von aminergen Neuronensystemen auf die Hypophysenvorderlappen-Hormonsekretion sowie die Wirkung von Psychopharmaka auf die aminergen Neuronensysteme im Zentralnervensystem.

Despite the progress that has been made in intensive care medicine, sepsis and septic shock are still accompanied by a high mortality rate.

The series "e;Medical Radiology - Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology"e; is the successor to the well known "e;Encyclopedia of Medical RadiologyjHandbuch der medizinischen Radiologie"e;.

In einem einleitenden Abschnitt werden die sehr unbefriedigende gegenwärtige Lage der forensischen Psychiatrie an den Universitäten und in der Rechtspraxis, ihr wissenschaftlicher Rückstand und ihre Fehlentwicklungen sowie die vermutlichen Gründe für diesen Mißstand dargelegt.

Despite recent advances in adjuvant therapies of cancer, the regi- mens of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy treatment which are presently available fail to cure the majority of cancer patients.

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The prostitution of the German psychiatric profession into a Nazi inquisitional tool was a major factor producing the total degradation of German medicine and moral- ity.

The incidence of lung cancer has reached epidemic proportions throughout the civilized world.

The present challenge in the treatment of tumors is to reduce the number of patients that still die as a result of primary tumors.

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Malignant growth of cells is often characterized by disorganization of tissue structure, abnormal blood vessel development, and insuffi- cient vascular supply.

The resolution of links between exposure to components of our complex environmental and causation of reproductive effects in the population constitutes an important problem in the field of toxicology.

The literature on co-trimoxazole (TMP jSMX) is voluminous, but in the main it consists of research reports.

The Sixth International Congress of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, which took place from 2 to 6 September 1980 in the congressional chambers of the former Reichstag building in Berlin, had as its theme "e;Women in a Changing Society.

Predictive drug testing on human tumor cells in order to define the appropriate chemotherapy will remain imperative as long as the anticancer agents available are few in number and show only limited activity.

At first glance it appears that little has happened in our understanding of bronchogenic carcinoma, since five year survival rates have not changed appreciably over the past ten years.

Several papers dealing with the clinical relevance of steroid hormone receptors in breast cancer have already been published.

The enormous expansion seen over the last decade in the mammo- graphic detection of breast cancer lesions, especially the use of screen- ing procedures for the early detection of clinically unsuspected tumors, has made it necessary to summarize the experience made by various centers in the world.

Pain is unfortunately not an early symptom in neoplastic diseases.

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In spring this year it will be 35 years since I began to study rotation technique as applied to radiology.

Various nouns have been used in the past to describe the Black races of South Africa and these terms will be used interchangeably in the text.

rope it was mainly the states of the northern and centrat European areas which succeeded in achieving the extermi- nation or at least the regression of brucellosis.

Lactogenic hormone activity was first observed in bovine pituitary extracts by Stricker and Griiter in 1928, working in Bouin's laboratory in Strasbourg.

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Transplantation of syngeneic (donor is a monozygous twin) or allogeneic (donor is an HLA-identical sibling) marrow provides the opportunity for aggressive antileukemic therapy without regard to marrow toxicity.

Attempts to influence survival of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) by adjuvant chemotherapy are limited by the variability of survival in different prognostic groups [4] and the paucity of drugs that have shown activity in the advanced disease [10].