Varicose veins and telangiectasias by Ramelet, Albert-Adrien

Table of Contents: “…Definition -- Epidemilogy and impact of varicose veins -- Anatomy of the veins of the lower limb - Venus physicology and pathopsiology -- Clinical presentation of varicose veins and telangiectasias -- Symptoms and complications -- Clinical examination -- Ultrasound -- Other investigation -- Choice of investigations -- Lifestyle , physical therapy and prevention -- Compression theraphy -- Drg therapy -- Sclerotheraphy -- Lasers, electrocoagulation and cosmetic considerations -- Surgery -- Ambulatory phlebectomy -- Theraputic strategy -- Treatment of cutaneous and thrombotic complications.…”

Overcoming varicose veins /c Editor-in-chief, Isabel Toyos.

Subjects: “…Varicose veinsœvJuvenile literature…”

Practical ultrasound an illustrated guide by Alty, Jane, Hoey, Edward

Table of Contents: “…General principles of ultrasound -- Guide to using the ultasound machine -- Abdomen -- Renal, including renal transplant -- Abdominal aorta -- Liver transplant - testes - Lower limb veins -- Carotid Doppler -- Female pelvis -- Early pregnancy -- Thyroid -- Focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) -- Breast -- Musculosketal…”

Browse's introduction to the symptoms and signs of surgical disease by Browse, Norman L. (Norman Leslie)

Table of Contents: “…History taking and clinical examination -- The symptoms, signs and emergency management of major injuries -- The skin and subcutaneous tissues -- Muscles, tendons, bones and joints -- Conditions peculiar to the hands -- Conditions peculiar to the feet -- The arteries, veins and lymphatics -- General and facial appearance -- The salivary glands -- The mouth -- The neck -- The breast -- The external genitalia -- The abdominal wall, herniae and the umbilicus -- The abdomen -- The kidneys, urinary tract and prostate -- The rectum and anal canal.…”

Browse's introduction to the symptoms & signs of surgical disease

Table of Contents: “…History-taking and clinical examination -- The heart, lungs and pleura -- The brain, central nervous system and peripheral nerves -- The skin and subcutaneous tissues -- Major injuries -- Bones, joints, muscles and tendons -- Upper limb -- Lower limb -- Spine and pelvis -- The arteries, veins and lymphatics -- The mouth, tongue and lips -- The neck -- The breast -- The abdominal wall, hernias and the umbilicus -- The abdomen -- The rectum and anal canal -- The kidney, urinary tract and prostate -- The external genitalia.…”

Anatomy at a glance an exam-oriented text by Mazumdar, Sibani

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Skeletal System -- Chapter 3: Joints -- Chapter 4: Muscular System -- Chapter 5: Nervous System -- Chapter 6: Arterial System -- Chapter 7: Veins -- Chapter 8: Lymphatic System -- Chapter 9: Viscera -- Chapter 10: Embryology -- Chapter 11: Genetics -- Chapter 12: Window Dissections that come in Examination -- Chapter 13: Histology -- Chapter 14: Radiology (Imaging Technique) -- Chapter 15: Surface Anatomy -- Chapter 16: Short Notes -- Chapter 17: Explainatory notes…”

Current research in advanced materials and processes : YUCOMAT VI proceedings of the 6th conference of the Yugoslav Materials Research Society held in Herceg Novi, Serbia and Monte...

Kirk's general surgical operations

Table of Contents: “…Choose well, cut well, get well -- Anaesthesia-related techniques -- The severely injured patient -- Laparotomy: elective and emergency -- Principles of minimal access surgery -- Abdominal wall and hernias -- Appendix and abdominal abscess -- Oesophagus -- Oesophageal cancer -- Stomach and duodenum -- Small bowel and operations for obesity -- Colonoscopy -- Colon -- Anorectum -- Biliary tract -- Pancreas -- Liver and portal venous system -- Spleen -- Breast -- Thyroid -- Parathyroid -- Adrenalectomy -- Arteries -- Veins and lymphatics -- Sympathectomy and the management of hyperhidrosis -- Transplantation -- Thorax -- Head and neck -- Orthopaedics and trauma: amputations -- Orthopaedics and trauma: general principles -- Orthopaedics and trauma: upper limb -- Orthopaedics and trauma: lower limb -- Plastic surgery -- Paediatric surgery -- Neurosurgery -- Upper urinary tract -- Lower urinary tract -- Male genitalia -- Gynaecological surgery -- Ear, nose and throat -- Oral and maxillofacial surgery -- Ophthalmology.…”

Sherlock's diseases of the liver and biliary system

Table of Contents: “…Anatomy and Function -- Assessment of Liver Function -- Biopsy of the Liver -- Haematological Disorders of the Liver --Acute Liver Failure -- Hepatic Fibrogenesis -- Hepatic Cirrhosis -- Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Cirrhosis -- The Hepatic Artery, Portal Venous System and Portal Hypertension: the Hepatic Veins and Liver in Circulatory Failure -- Ascites --Jaundice and Cholestasis -- Gallstones and Benign Biliary Diseases -- Malignant Biliary Diseases -- Cysts and Congenital Biliary Abnormalities -- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis -- Sclerosing Cholangitis -- Enterically Transmitted Viral Hepatitis: Hepatitis A and Hepatitis -- Hepatitis B -- Hepatitis D -- Hepatitis C -- Hepatitis due to Non-A-E Viruses -- HIV and the Liver -- Autoimmune Hepatitis and Overlap Syndromes -- Drug-Induced Liver Injury -- Alcohol and the Liver -- Iron Overload States -- Wilson's Disease -- Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nutrition -- The Liver in the Neonate, in Infancy and Childhood -- The Liver in Pregnancy -- The Liver in Systemic Disease -- The Liver in Infections -- Space-Occupying Lesions: the Diagnostic Approach -- Benign Liver Tumours -- Primary Malignant Neoplasms of the Liver -- Hepatic Transplantation -- Liver Transplantation in Patients with Hepatitis B, C or HIV Infection…”

Ophthalmology at a glance

Table of Contents: “…-- Medical student aims -- Social and occupational aspects of vision -- Taking the history and recording the findings -- Visual acuity in adults -- Examination of visual fields -- Other visual functions -- Basic optics and refraction -- Glasses, contact lenses, and low vision aids -- External eye and anterior segment -- Posterior segment and retina -- Use of eye drops -- Red eye: the conjunctiva -- Red eye: the cornea -- Red eye: the sclera and episclera -- Ophthalmic trauma principles and management of chemical injuries -- Specific features of blunt and sharp injuries -- Loss of vision in the inflamed eye -- Sudden painful loss of vision in a non-inflammed eye -- Sudden painless loss of vision -- Gradual loss of vision -- Visual acuity in children -- Strabismus (squints) -- Neonates -- Infants and older children -- Common eyelid lumps -- Common eyelid malpositions -- Lacrimal (tearing) -- Basic orbital assessment -- Orbit disease, thyroid eye disease and facial palsy -- Ocular oncology -- Common conditions affecting the external eye -- Common conditions affecting the cornea -- Medical uses of contact lenses -- Corneal and laser photorefractive surgery -- Cataract assessment -- Cataract surgery -- Cataract surgery postoperative care -- Glaucoma: the basics -- Detecting glaucoma -- Medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma -- Retinal detachment -- Retinal and choroidial anatomy and imaging -- Inherited retinal disorders and age related macular degeneration -- Diabetic retionopathy classification and typical lesions -- Diabetic retionopathy treatment -- Retinal artery onstruction -- Retinal vein occlusion -- HIV infection and AIDS-- Tropical ophthalmology: tropical eye disease -- Tropical ophthalmology: global eye health -- Pupil abnormalities -- Optic nerve disease -- Cranial nerve palsies and eye movement disorders -- Visual fields defects -- Giant cell arteritis…”

Churchill and America by Gilbert, Martin 1936-

Table of Contents: “…-- "A union of spirit" -- Road to war -- "Hope burden will not be made too heavy for us to bear" -- "I shall drag the United States in" -- "Until the old world-and the new-can join hands" -- "We are no longer alone" -- Five months of anguish -- "A means of waging more effective war" -- "American blood flowed in my veins" -- The Washington War Conference: "All in it together" -- "Okay full blast" -- "The tact and consideration which the harmony of the common cause requires" -- "If we are together nothing is impossible" -- Toward overlord: "Our band of brothers" -- From Normandy to Quebec -- "It grieves me very. much to see signs of our drifting apart" -- Malta, Yalta and beyond -- "We must make sure that the United States are with us" -- "Britain, though a smaller power than the United States, had much to give" -- Fulton and its aftermath -- "I have always worked for friendship with the United States" -- The indefatigable traveler -- "I marvel at America's altruism, her sublime disinterestedness" -- "We must not cast away a single hope, however slender" -- "Never be separated from the Americans" -- Final decade: "I delight in my American ancestry."…”

Introduction to vascular ultrasonography

Table of Contents: “…Ultrasound in the assessment and management of arterial emergencies. -- Extremity veins. -- 20. Risk factors and the role of ultrasound in the management of extremity venous disease -- 21. …”

Cardiovascular therapeutics a companion to Braunwald's heart disease

Table of Contents: “…PART I DECISION MAKING AND THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE -- Chapter 1 Tools for Assessment of Cardiovascular Tests and Therapies -- Chapter 2 New Drug Development -- Chapter 3 Device Development for Cardiovascular Therapeutics: Concepts and Regulatory Implications -- Chapter 4 Pharmacogenetics Chapter -- 5 Systems of Health Care -- Chapter 6 Global Cardiovascular Therapy -- PART II ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE -- Chapter 7 Pharmacologic Options for Treatment of Ischemic Disease -- Chapter 8 Stable Ischemic Heart Disease/Chronic Stable Angina -- Chapter 9 Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes -- Chapter 10 ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction -- Chapter 11 Advances in Coronary Revascularization -- PART III HEART FAILURE -- Chapter 12 Pharmacologic Management of Heart Failure in the Ambulatory Setting -- Chapter 13 Implantable Devices for the Management of Heart Failure -- Chapter 14 Strategies for Management of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure -- Chapter 15 Cardiac Transplantation and Circulatory Support Devices Chapter -- 16 Regenerative Therapy for Heart Failure Chapter -- 17 Hypertrophic, Restrictive, and Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies -- PART IV ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES -- Chapter 18 Clinical Pharmacology of Antiarrhythmic Drugs -- Chapter 19 Pharmacologic Management of Supraventricular Tachycardias -- Chapter 20 Atrial Fibrillation -- Chapter 21 Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Tachyarrhythmias -- Chapter 22 Role of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators in Primary and Secondary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death -- Chapter 23 Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia and Cardiac Arrest -- PART V DYSLIPOPROTEINEMIAS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS -- Chapter 24 Drugs for Elevated Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol -- Chapter 25 Therapy to Manage Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Elevated Triglycerides -- Chapter 26 Cardiovascular Disease and Lifestyle Modification -- Chapter 27 Steps Beyond Diet and Drug Therapy for Severe Hypercholesterolemia PART VI HYPERTENSION -- Chapter 28 Initial Evaluation and Approach to the Patient with Hypertension -- Chapter 29 Pharmacologic Management of Hypertension -- Chapter 30 Endocrine Causes of Hypertension -- Chapter 31 Resistant Hypertension -- Chapter 32 Hypertensive Crisis -- Chapter 33 Hypertension in Pregnancy -- Chapter 34 Management of Hypertension in Children and Adolescents PART VII OTHER VASCULAR CONDITIONS -- Chapter 35 Peripheral Artery Disease Chapter 36 Cerebrovascular Disease -- Chapter 37 Renal Artery Stenosis -- Chapter 38 Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Vein Thrombosis -- Chapter 39 Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension -- Chapter 40 Aortic Disease -- PART VIII OTHER CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITIONS -- Chapter 41 Pharmacologic Options for Treating of CardiovascularDisease During Pregnancy -- Chapter 42 Care for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease -- Chapter 43 Prevention and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis -- Chapter 44 Treatment of Pericardial Disease -- Chapter 45 Optimal Timing of Surgical and Mechanical Intervention in Native Valvular Heart Disease -- Chapter 46 Surgery for Valvular Heart Disease -- Chapter 47 Percutaneous Treatment for Valvular Heart Disease -- Chapter 48 Manifestations, Mechanisms, and Treatment of HIV-Associated Cardiovascular Disease -- Chapter 49 Rehabilitation of the Patient with Cardiovascular Disease -- PART IX APPENDIX Cardiovascular Devices…”

Youmans neurological surgery

Table of Contents: “…[vol. 2] : Brain tumors: general considerations -- Brain tumors: an overview of current histopathologic classifications -- Brain tumor immunology and immunotherapy -- Brain tumor stem cells -- Proliferation markers in the evaluation of gliomas -- Molecular genetics and the development of targets for glioma therapy -- Growth factors in glial tumors -- The genetic origins of brain tumors -- Invasion in malignant glioma -- Angiogenesis and brain tumors: molecular targets and molecular scalpels -- Barriers to delivery of therapeutics to brain tumors -- Epidemiology of brain tumors -- Gene- and viral-based therapies for gliomas -- Clinical features: neurology of brain tumor and paraneoplastic disorders -- Radiologic features of central nervous system tumors -- Endovascular techniques for tumor embolization -- Brain tumors during pregnancy -- Principles of chemotherapy -- Brain tumor outcome studies: design and interpretation -- Frame and frameless stereotactic brain biopsy -- Basic principles of cranial surgery for brain tumors -- Basic principles of skull base surgery -- Surgical complications of brain tumors and their avoidance -- Navigation for brain tumors -- Endoscopic approaches to brain tumors -- Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging -- Low-grade gliomas: astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, and mixed glioma -- Malignant gliomas: anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma multiforme, gliosarcoma -- Unusual gliomas -- Primitive neuroectodermal tumors -- Pineal tumors -- Medulloblastoma -- Meningiomas -- Meningeal sarcoma and meningeal hemangiopericytoma -- Acoustic neuroma -- Pituitary tumors: functioning and nonfunctioning -- Craniopharyngioma -- Epidermoid, dermoid, and neurenteric cysts -- Neoplastic meningitis -- Ventricular tumors -- Overview of skull base tumors -- Chordomas and chondrosarcomas -- Glomus tumors -- Neoplasms of the paranasal sinuses -- Esthesioneuroblastoma -- Trigeminal schwannomas -- Juvenile nasal angiofibroma -- Osseous tumors -- Tumors of the orbit -- Skull tumors -- Scalp tumors -- Pseudotumor cerebri -- Sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, and xanthogranuloma -- Demyelinating disease -- Pain: general historical considerations -- Anatomy and physiology of pain -- Molecular basis of nociception -- Approach to the patient with chronic pain -- Pharmacologic treatment of pain -- Management of pain by anesthetic techniques -- Evidence-based approach to the treatment of facial pain -- Trigeminal neuralgia: diagnosis and nonoperative management -- Percutaneous procedures for trigeminal neuralgia -- Stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia -- Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia -- Neurosurgical management of intractable pain -- Evidence base: neurostimulation for pain -- Peripheral nerve stimulation for neuropathic pain -- Spinal cord stimulation -- Motor cortex stimulation -- Evidence base for destructive procedures -- Diagnosis and management of painful neuromas -- Dorsal root entry zone lesions -- Percutaneous cordotomy and trigeminal tractotomy-nucleotomy -- Neuroanesthesia in children -- Neurocritical care in children -- Normal and abnormal embryology of the brain -- Encephalocele -- Dandy-Walker syndrome -- Arachnoid cysts -- Chiari malformations -- Craniopagus twins -- Genetics of craniosynostosis -- Craniosynostosis -- Syndromic craniosynostosis -- Endoscopic treatment of craniosynostosis -- Plagiocephaly -- Hydrocephalus in children: approach to the patient -- Infantile posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus -- Cerebrospinal fluid physiology -- Experimental hydrocephalus -- Ventricular shunting procedures -- Neuroendoscopy -- Cerebrospinal fluid devices -- Shunt infections and their treatment -- General approaches and considerations for pediatric brain tumors -- Optic pathway hypothalamic gliomas -- Thalamic tumors -- Choroid plexus tumors -- Pediatric craniopharyngioma -- Supratentorial hemispheric tumors -- Ependymoma -- Medulloblastoma in children -- Cerebellar astrocytomas -- Brainstem glioma -- Intracranial germ cell tumors -- Familial tumors (neurocutaneous syndromes) -- Skull tumors and fibrous dysplasia -- Moyamoya disease -- Vein of galen aneurysmal malformation -- Management of severe head injury in children -- Child abuse -- Growing skull fracture -- Birth head trauma -- Birth brachial plexus injury -- Myelomeningocele and myelocystocele -- Lipomyelomeningocele -- Split spinal cord -- Tethered spinal cord: fatty filum terminale, meningocele manque, and dermal sinus tracts -- Developmental abnormalities of the craniocervical junction -- Achondroplasia and other dwarfisms -- Cervical spine disorders in children -- Intramedullary spinal cord tumors in children -- Spine tumors in children -- Thoracolumbar spinal disorders in pediatric patients -- Vertebral column and spinal cord injuries in children -- Clinical features and management of cerebral palsy -- Intrathecal baclofen therapy for cerebral palsy -- Selective dorsal rhizotomy for spastic cerebral palsy -- Dystonia in children…”

Portal hypertension imaging, diagnosis, and endovascular management

Recent advances in surgery.