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This book reviews recent advances in understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of angiogenesis, with a focus on how to integrate these observations into the context of developmental, post-natal and pathological neovascularization.

This book creates a unique platform that covers main ankle pathologies specifically related with football. Experiences from professional players have been combined with evidence-based medical content from renowned experts in the field to present a comprehensive picture on ankle injuries in football.

This book examines the link between mental health and pain. It will serve as an innovative tool presenting psychiatric disorders such as major depression, schizophrenia, and addiction.

This book pursues a multidisciplinary approach, presenting chapters with updated information on various aspects of treatment for patients with neuroendocrine tumors.

Focal therapy is a promising option for selected patients who have localized low or intermediate-risk prostate cancer, providing a compelling alternative between active surveillance and radical therapies by targeting the index lesion and preserving as much tissue as possible.

The focus is on basic information on every orthopedic subspecialty, including: surgical anatomy, basic sciences, adult reconstruction, pediatric orthopedics, foot and ankle surgery, orthopedic pathology, the spine, sports surgery, upper limb, wrist and hand surgery, and orthopedic traumas.

The Galdakao-modified supine Valdivia position allowed the development of ECIRS (Endoscopic Combined IntraRenal Surgery), a technique exploiting a combined antegrade and retrograde approach to the upper urinary tract, using both rigid and flexible endoscopes with the related accessories.

Many tendon transfers are reported as latissimus dorsi, teres major, split of anterior deltoid and pectoralis major. The goal of this book is to remind the biomechanical and anatomical basis of these tendon transfers and to report tips and tricks and results of these techniques.

The comfortable boundaries of static architectures and well-defined limits and owners are not existent in these AmI ecosystems. In its second year AmI.d again shows the heterogeneity of research challenges related to Ambient Intelligence.

A century of technical progress, critical analyses, and clinical comparisons have shaped exercise testing in cardiology as we know it today: a simple, noninvasive physiological test that yields irreplaceable information on an individual's physical capacity and ischemic risk.

During the last 10-12 years, the research on homocysteine has become very active. A disturbed homocysteine metabolism can be an underlying factor for pregnancy complications and fetal malformations, cardiovascular disease, dementia, psychiatric and neurologic disorders and possibly carcinogenesis.

Early Puberty

The first comprehensive book about surgery on and around the vertebral artery all along its cervical and intracranial course, this heavily-illustrated text covers all surgical aspects from anatomy and imaging to techniques and pathologies.

This book details the fundamentals of Health informatics. It examines the main features of the software developed in the major structures of Health with applications in various countries.

A report that proposes a novel analytical framework, so that everyone can form his/her opinion on a series of key questions: The European Union and the Crisis: between doubts and necessity; Facing the Economic and Financial Crisis: strategy for growth and employment; and the summary of political Europe: analysis of European elections 2011.

The first comprehensive book about surgery on and around the vertebral artery all along its cervical and intracranial course, this heavily-illustrated text covers all surgical aspects from anatomy and imaging to techniques and pathologies.

Held in Sophia Antipolis (France) from September the 20th to September the 22nd 2006, the first edition of the AmI.d conference tackled the latest research challenges within AmI ecosystems, presented AmI applications as well as security solutions.

Rehabilitation and palliation have become an essential part of modern comprehensive cancer care. This book contains experiences of the author and specific instructions how to assess, treat, and evaluate rehabilitation and palliation in cancer patients.

Human African Trypaniosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness is an old disease to be now considered as reemergent. The public health importance of HAT is underestimated, but the disease causes severe social disruption in many rural areas.

A radiologist, who wants to acquire a PACS, or a mathematician asking for pertinent applications of image processing techniques will find recent information guiding their choice in research or in acquisition of imaging or computing devices of a hospital information system.

International Congress for Infectious Diseases, Rio de Janeiro - April 17-21, 1988. F.-A. Waldvogel, President

Much progress has been made in recent years and new techniques have been developed in the field of plastic surgery of the breast. Breast Surgery presents plastic surgeons with a comprehensive summary of current practice and the techniques available.Clearly written in language accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, Breast Surgery presents a variety and range of techniques with which excellent results in both plastic and reconstructive breast surgery can be achieved. Over 600 drawings and photographs, both in black and white and in colour, accompany the text, providing the plastic surgeon with clearly-illustrated guidelines to follow.Dr. Nathalie Bricout is a leading figure in the field of plastic surgery of the breast in France.

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS There is no doubt that the content of this EAES Consensus Development Conferences (CDC's) booklet represents an extremely important contribution to answering the following questions: which area of endoscopic surgery requires quality assurance ?

Clinical observations of cancer patients and studies with experimental rodent tumors have revealed that cer tain tumors produce metastasis to specific organs independent of vascular anat omy, rate of blood flow, and number of tumor cells delivered to each organ.

Molecular Mechanisms of Angiogenesis

mTOR Inhibition for Cancer Therapy: Past, Present and Future

This book creates a unique platform that covers main ankle pathologies specifically related with football. Experiences from professional players have been combined with evidence-based medical content from renowned experts in the field to present a comprehensive picture on ankle injuries in football.