Medical specialties, branches of medicine

"e;Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire.

The many advances in breast cancer research, as well as the large quantity of published material, make it very difficult to gain insight into the global aspects of cancer management.

Anhand der Literatur werden in dem vorliegenden Buch die Positionen der drei für das Wahnproblem wahrscheinlich einflußreichsten Denker - Karl Jaspers, Kurt Schneider und Sigmund Freud - eingehend und kritisch diskutiert.

The prevention and correction of high blood pressure obviously is not an end in itself but a means of preventing cardiovascular complications.

Percutaneous transluminal angioscopy is opening up exciting possibilities for the interventional radiologist, since it can picture vascular features with an accuracy and clarity that previously has not been possible.

The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Percutaneous lumbar discectomy is a new surgical method for treating lumbar disc diseases.

Die Wirkung ionisierender Strahlen im Niedrigdosenbereich mit den möglichen Risiken von Spätschäden wird derzeit noch kontrovers diskutiert.

New techniques make it possible for investigators to examine and sometimes quantify various aspects of nuclear morphology and function; now they can derive clinically and biologically useful information about the nucleus.

An overview of the radiologic manifestations of tuberculosis in most of the skeletal bones and joints is given in this book.

There have been many advances in the field of gastrointestinal pa- thology which are of considerable clinical significance during the 13 years since the last publication of a volume of Current Topics in Pathology devoted to this subject.

Mit Hilfe der Ultraschalluntersuchung lassen sich sowohl angeborene Veränderungen wie Hüftdysplasie und Hüftluxation beim Neugeborenen und Säugling als auch entzündliche Veränderungen erfassen.

When computed tomography (CT) was developed and introduced by Hounsfield (1973), a new era of clinical diagnostic potential began.

Acute leukemia a quite homogenous disease failed to break through the sound barriere of when untreated reveals a substantial hetero- unsatisfactory cure rates even in special sub- geneity in its response to therapy.

"e;Internal"e; hyperthermia is a type of thermotherapy by which heat is sup- plied to tumor tissue in situ.

The enormous potential that hyperthermia has for benefiting patients with cancer is impressively indicated by biological studies, both in vitro and in vivo, and by comparative clinical studies whenever the heat has been appro- priate to the size of the tumor.

The development of equipment capable of producing and monitoring safe, effective and predictable hyperthermia treatments represents a major challenge.

You see things, and sa)' why?

Klinische Forschung hat als Forschung am kranken Menschen besonders hohen ethischen Anforderungen zu genügen.

This volume focuses on the evidence for or against molecular mimicry as a cause of autoimmunity.

It is surprising, and even disappointing, that there have been very few meetings and published volumes resulting from these meetings that focus attention upon all of the groups of DNA tumor viruses.

The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for information, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Der gerade erschienene Band enthält die anläßlich der letztjährigen Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Neuropädiatrie in München gehaltenen Vorträge.

Die psychischen und psychosomatischen Komponenten der verschiedenen Sterilitätsbehandlungen - von der Beratung bis zur in vitro Fertilisation und heterologen Insemination - werden in sieben Kapiteln von verschiedenen psychologischen Gesichtswinkeln aus betrachtet: aus psychoanalytischer, testpsychologischer und vor allem praktisch-klinischer Sicht.

During the past few years, a considerable number of monographs on bone tumors have been published.

Knee surgeons world wide have been aware that a beautifully illustrated book on diagnostic evaluation of the knee existed.

The clinical biochemistry ofhepatobiliary diseases is very widely studied, and publica- tions abound on this topic.

In-patient treatment for alcoholism going beyond physical withdrawal from the drug has been available in Germany for more than 130 years.

Rosmarie Erben The International Conference on "e;Health Promotion in the Working World"e; was organized by the Federal Centre for Health Education, Col- ogne, in collaboration with the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization, Copenhagen.

The 17th volume of the "e;Advances in Neurosurgery"e; contains a selection of the scientific reports of the 39th annual meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery, which was held in Cologne from May 8-11, 1988.

In the past two decades public debate about the risks, benefits, and safety associated with drugs has intensified.

In der Bundesrepublik begehen - auf 100.

Hartvig Dahl This is a book about the future that we hope will arouse the curiosity of clinicians and point a direction for researchers.

In dem vorliegenden Band wird das Thema Geburtsschmerz unter dem Aspekt neuer neurobiologischer Erkenntnisse behandelt.

Congenital hip dysplasia and dislocation are common diseases of newborns and small infants, with frequently severe consequences if orthopaedic therapy is not initiated at an early stage.

Quantitative anaesthesia - exact registration of the degree of anaesthesia - has long been the anaesthetist's dream.

The previous volume on Antihypertensive Agents in the Handbook of Experi- mental Pharmacology, published in 1977, was edited by the late Franz Gross from the Department of Pharmacology in Heidelberg, who was one of the grand old men in hypertension research.

A NATO Advanced study Institute on "e;Receptors, Membrane Trans- port and Signal Transduction"e;, was held on the Island of Spet- sai, Greece, from August 16-27, 1988, in order to consider re- cent developments in membrane receptor research, membrane trans- port and signal transduction mechanisms.

Membrane proteins, lipids and their glycosylated derivatives are discussed both with respect to their biosynthesis as well as regarding their mutual interaction and assembly into functional membranes.

Whereas platinum compounds are already clinically used as anticancer agents, tin compounds exhibiting high enough antitumour activity have not yet been found to enter the clinical phase.

Fast zwei Drittel der Erwerbstätigen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland üben eine sitzende Tätigkeit aus, und nicht wenige von ihnen klagen über Beschwerden, die auf das Sitzen zurückzuführen sind.