Medical Spanish: A Basic Grammar Guide is the most extensive grammar guide for health care ever created. Oriented to Medical Spanish, this book is an extremely thorough and practical review of grammar essentials. It provides the "ultimate" method for health care workers to study the language. It is organized into well-defined sections, each of which offers clear and concise explanations and examples of grammar topics. The book also includes verb tenses, examples of everyday usage, and cultural notes. It is a book for all levels of Spanish. And for those in the health care field, there is no better investment, not only as a learning tool, but also as a general reference for Spanish grammar. At 240 pages and encompassing a single volume, it is an indispensable guide for understanding grammar as it relates to Medical Spanish. Undoubtedly, those who use this book will keep it close when evaluating Spanish-speaking patients. In short, they will rely on it and never want to work without it again.

Computer-assisted imaging with radiation (x- and gamma rays) is an integral part of modern medical-diagnostic practice. This imaging technology is also slowly finding its way into industrial applications. Although the technology is well developed, there is a need for further improvement to enhance image quality, reduce artifacts, minimize patient radiation exposure, compete with and complement other imaging methods (such as magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonics), and accommodate dense and large objects encountered in industrial applications.

Scientists and engineers, attempting to progress this technology, are faced with an enormous amount of literature, addressing the imaging problem from various view points. This book provides a single source that addresses both the physical and mathematical aspects of the imaging problem in a consistent and comprehensive manner.
Discusses the inherent physical and numerical capabilities and limitations of the methods presented for both the forward and inverse problems

Provides information on available Internet resources and software

Written in a manner that makes it readable by physicists, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists - avoids, as much as possible, the use of specialized terminology without clear introduction and definition

Amirsys proudly announces the Second Edition of the bestselling Diagnostic Imaging: Obstetrics," "written by the foremost experts in the field, Dr. Paula Woodward and team.""With approximately 260 diagnoses--all featuring the most recent information, ""citations, and images--this reference guides the practicing radiologist through the""intricacies of obstetrics and gynecology. Richly colored graphics pop off the page, and""all images are fully annotated to highlight the most important diagnostic possibilities.""Coupled with a new companion eBook, which includes hundreds of additional""images, references, and fully searchable text, this updated volume will surely""become the new standard reference textbook for imaging of obstetrics and""gynecologic-related anomalies.""

Achieve the most accurate imaging diagnosis for pediatric radiology.

"Differential Diagnosis in Pediatric Imaging"offers the most up-to-date knowledge of pediatric imaging diagnostic techniques. It provides imagers, clinicians and their trainees with simple methods to evaluate both frequently and rarely seen diseases and disorders, and suggests differential diagnoses fully taking into account clinical findings. In addition, the text provides how-to tips for identifying normal images - saving time and helping to avoid common misinterpretations.

Readers are guided through a comprehensive, easy-to-navigate radiological library of pediatric disorders, which are divided by organ system. Sections include the head and neck, chest, musculoskeletal, urogenital and the digestive tract, and are complemented by a thorough review of normal values. Each chapter discusses the imaging findings and different diagnostic possibilities, while mirroring clinical situations encountered in daily practice.

Features: Easy-to-read tables highlight important findings and clinical clues to help identify diagnoses at a glance 1,500 high-quality images cover all major childhood disordersA comprehensive chapter on normal values and measurements

Written by an international group of expert authors, this text is the foremost guide to the expanding specialty of pediatric radiology. Radiologists and residents in radiology can use this text as reference for daily practice and in preparation for exams.

A comprehensive reference of cutting-edge advanced techniques for quantitative image processing and analysis

Medical diagnostics and intervention, and biomedical research rely progressively on imaging techniques, namely, the ability to capture, store, analyze, and display images at the organ, tissue, cellular, and molecular level. These tasks are supported by increasingly powerful computer methods to process and analyze images. This text serves as an authoritative resource and self-study guide explaining sophisticated techniques of quantitative image analysis, with a focus on biomedical applications. It offers both theory and practical examples for immediate application of the topics as well as for in-depth study.

Advanced Biomedical Image Analysis presents methods in the four major areas of image processing: image enhancement and restoration, image segmentation, image quantification and classification, and image visualization. In each instance, the theory, mathematical foundation, and basic description of an image processing operator is provided, as well as a discussion of performance features, advantages, and limitations. Key algorithms are provided in pseudo-code to help with implementation, and biomedical examples are included in each chapter.

Image registration, storage, transport, and compression are also covered, and there is a review of image analysis and visualization software. The accompanying live DVD contains a selection of image analysis software, and it provides most of the algorithms from the book so readers can immediately put their new knowledge to use.

Members of the academic community involved in image-related research as well as members of the professional R&D sector will rely on this volume.
It is also well suited as a textbook for graduate-level image processing classes in the computer science and engineering fields.

The bestselling Diagnostic Imaging series published by Amirsys now includes a comprehensive, easy-to-use reference book devoted to oncology, with nearly 3,000 incredible images, illustrations, and graphics. Written and edited by renowned experts in radiology, oncology, and body imaging, Diagnostic Imaging: Oncology sets a new standard in cancer imaging references. Chapters include the newest and complete staging tables approved by the American Joint Committee on Cancer, lavish full-color graphics for each cancer stage, concise and informative bulleted text, and fully annotated images depicting nearly all stages of cancer, making this a superior guide for cancer staging. This volume represents an indispensable reference tool for radiologists, oncologists, and other medical professionals.

A companion eBook offers the fully searchable text.

Medical Spanish: A Guide for Social Services, Complete Volume, is the most extensive Medical Spanish resource ever created for Social Services. At 596 pages, it is so complete, those involved with social services will never want to work without it again. History: Step-by-step phrases for taking a complete social services history. Don't know much Spanish? No problem. If you speak English, you can take a history from Spanish-speaking patients with this book. It is that complete and easy to use. Evaluation: Just as easy are the step-by-step phrases for performing a complete evaluation. No matter what your Spanish level, this book orients the evaluation to the way you think in English. Social Services Determination: A virtual cookbook for instructing patients about numerous determination issues. Want the information in technical terms? Want the information in lay terms? And want the information explained in the kind of Spanish, which your clients understand? Procedures: Need to explain the procedures your clients need or you need to accomplish? Just pick your topic. Social Services Issue Explanations: A whole host of issues and their explanations - from adoption and birth control to end-of-life concerns, teen problems, and many more. Vocabulary: From soups to nuts - literally - all of the vocabulary needed for Social Services is in this book. Uncommonly simple - and utilitarian. This book has it all.

Amirsys is pleased to announce the publication of Specialty Imaging: Gastrointestinal Oncology, our only book focused entirely on gastrointestinal cancers. Dr. Akram Shabaan and team have skillfully assembled over 1,000 high-quality images that show the various tumor stages for cancers of the small intestine, esophagus, appendix, colon, stomach, gall bladder, pancreas, and more. These images and over 320 pages of easy-to-read bulleted text masterfully guide the clinician and researcher through a sophisticated discussion of a variety of imaging appearances, stages, and treatment options. The book includes the hot-off-the-press Seventh Edition AJCC cancer staging tables, which provide the definitions for TNM and AJCC prognostic groups for all gastrointestinal cancers. This handy reference is perfect for radiologists, oncologists, and other medical professionals who demand accuracy.

Mayan Medical Aid's Medical Spanish: A Cheat Sheet, is the best Medical Spanish quick-reference tool ever created for health care workers. At 144 pages and pocket-sized, it is so rapidly useful that those who work in health care will never want to work without it again. History: Step-by-step phrases for taking a goal-directed medical history. Don't know much Spanish? No problem. If you speak English, you can take a history from Spanish-speaking patients in minutes with this book. It is that complete and easy to use. Physical Exam / Evaluation: Just as easy are the step-by-step phrases for performing a complete physical examination and evaluation. Do you want your patients to stand up, sit down, squat, take a deep breath and hold it, or just be quiet? No matter what your Spanish level, this book orients the physical exam and evaluation to the way you think in English. Diagnosis: A virtual cookbook for instructing patients about numerous diagnostic issues. Want the diagnosis in technical terms? Want the diagnosis in lay terms? And want the diagnosis explained in the kind of Spanish, which your patients understand? Medications: A whole host of medications and their explanations - from aspirin, steroids, and antibiotics to diabetic medications, anti-hypertensives, cough drops, anesthetics and many more. Vocabulary: All of the vocabulary needed to practice good medicine is in this book: anatomy, symptoms, verbs, history, physical exam, diagnoses, medicines, and a whole host of other essential words. As simple and utilitarian as it gets, this book has it all.

The Fourth Edition of Handbook of Interventional Radiologic Procedures features extensive updates to keep pace with the rapid growth of interventional radiology. Focusing on protocols and equipment, this popular, practical handbook explains how to perform all current interventional radiologic procedures. Highlights of this edition include new information on radiofrequency ablation. Each procedure includes indications, contraindications, preparation, technique, postprocedure management, and prevention and management of complications. Simple line drawings demonstrate relevant anatomy and procedures. Coverage also includes risk management, nursing management, and drugs and dosages. The outline format helps readers find information quickly, and the compact pocket size enables residents and practitioners to carry all the information they need with them.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used to visualize detailed internal structure of the body. This book discusses the recent developments in the field of MRI and its application to the diagnosis of human brain disorders. In addition, it reviews the newly emerging concepts and technology, based on the multi-coherence imaging (MQCI). It explains how computer packages can be used to generate images in diseased states and compare them to in vivo results. This will help improve the diagnosis of brain disorders based on the real-time events happening on atomic and molecular quantum levels. This is important since quantum-based MRI would enable clinicians to detect brain tumors at the very early stages.

The first Amirsys publication devoted solely to genitourinary cancers has finally arrived. In Specialty Imaging: Genitourinary Oncology, Dr. Akram Shaaban and team skillfully guide clinicians through the imaging appearances, staging, and treatment techniques for cancers of the kidney, bladder, adrenal glands, urethra, testicle, and prostate. The 130 pages of fast-reading, bulleted text are enriched with well over 450 vivid images, each of which identifies and explains clinically significant factors. The recently published Seventh Edition AJCC cancer staging tables are included to aid the staging discussions, providing definitions for TNM and AJCC prognostic groups for all genitourinary cancers. This is a must-have reference for radiologists, oncologists, and others whose work quality depends on an accurate understanding of genitourinary system cancers.

Specialty Imaging: Gynecologic Oncology is the first and only Amirsys book dedicated exclusively to cancers of the female reproductive system. Using more than 400 detailed images and nearly 130 pages of easy-to-read bulleted text, Dr. Akram Shabaan and team carefully describe the imaging appearance, staging, techniques, and treatment options for cancers of the vagina, vulva, ovary, cervix uteri, corpus uteri, and fallopian tube. The book includes the brand new Seventh Edition AJCC cancer staging tables, which provide the definitions for TNM, FIGO stages, and AJCC prognostic groups for all gynecologic cancers. High quality images illustrate nearly every stage of every type of these cancers, helping clinicians accurately identify and treat some of the most physically and psychologically devastating cancers of our time.

This state-of-the-art Gastrointestinal title in the brand-new "High-Yield Imaging" series is ideally designed to let you quickly look up a diagnosis, confirm your suspicion, and move on to the next case. Renowned authorities, Drs. Gore and Levine, present 350 GI diagnoses, 1,200 optimally sized multi-modality clinical images, and at-a-glance bulleted text, to help you efficiently and accurately diagnose any GI disorder. A full-color design along with a consistent organization makes reference a snap. And, at expertconsult.com you'll have easy access to the full text online as well as all of the book's images for enhanced visual guidance.

Comprehensive visual guide emphasizing a multimodality approach to breast cancer diagnosis The second edition of this generously illustrated case-based reference provides a systematic visual collection of pathologic entities and a detailed assessment of how to optimize sonographic technique as well as how to approach the integration of mammography, sonography, MRI and PET/CT in breast cancer diagnosis. The book begins with a focus on teaching practical methods to analyze and incorporate mammographic, sonographic, and magnetic resonance findings in the clinical setting. The closing chapters are devoted to illustrating the applications of PET as demonstrated by specific clinical cases. Features of the second edition: Emphasis on the importance of high-resolution sonography Three new chapters on the use of MRI and PET in breast imaging Numerous new case studies -- including helpful pearls and pitfalls -- that focus on common and uncommon examples of metastatic and non-metastatic disease Charts and outlines that provide rapid reference for the clinical workup of a lesion More than 800 images that help identify both mammographic and sonographic abnormalities This thorough reference is ideal for radiologists, mammographers, oncologists, gynecologists and all clinicians looking to broaden their visual sonographic experience. Its user-friendly format makes it a handy text for radiology residents in breast rotations.

Medical Spanish: A Psychiatrist's Guide, Complete Volume, is the most extensive Medical Spanish resource ever created for psychiatrists. At 692 pages, it is so complete that psychiatrists will never want to work without it again. History: Step-by-step phrases for taking a complete medical and psychiatric history. Don't know much Spanish? No problem. If you speak English, you can take a history from Spanish-speaking patients with this book. It is that complete and easy to use. Evaluation: Just as easy are the step-by-step phrases for performing a complete psychiatric examination and evaluation. Do you want your patients to interpret proverbs, perform memory tests, or just be quiet? No matter what your Spanish level, this book orients the evaluation to the way you think in English. Diagnosis: A virtual cookbook for instructing patients about numerous diagnostic issues. Want the diagnosis in technical terms? Want the diagnosis in lay terms? And want the diagnosis explained in the kind of Spanish, which your patients understand? Procedures: Need to explain the procedures you need to perform? Just pick your topic. Treatment and Explanations: A whole host of treatments and their explanations - from anxiety disorders and depression to bipolar disease and many more. Vocabulary: From soups to nuts - literally - all of the vocabulary needed to practice good psychiatry is in this book. Uncommonly simple - and utilitarian. This book has it all.

This state-of-the-art Interventions title in the brand-new High-Yield Imaging series is ideally designed to let you quickly look up a diagnosis, treat the condition, and move on to the next case. Renowned authorities presents the latest vascular and non-vascular interventions, nearly 1,000 optimally sized multi-modality clinical images, and at-a-glance bulleted text, to help you efficiently treat a wide range of diseases. A full-color design along with a consistent organization makes reference a snap. And, at expertconsult.com you'll have easy access to the full text online as well as all of the book's images for enhanced visual guidance.

Modern medical practice has seen many advances in imaging over the past ten years. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, CT scanning and Ultrasound investigations have all been added to the repertoire of normal practice. However, the humble chest X-ray remains a crucial first line investigation - particularly for acute medical admissions. Many chest X-rays are requested for a specific purpose e.g. confirmation of pneumonia, but the image may reveal features of previously unsuspected disease of another body system. Digital storage of X-ray images means that a chest X-ray may be viewed at any computer workstation in your hospital. Clinicians now have the opportunity to view these images without waiting for the X-ray packet to be delivered. This can only be advantageous for the patient if the clinician knows what to look for on the image. This book takes you through 200 images in a stimulating manner designed to improve your confidence in reporting the humble chest X-ray.

In the ancestral environment, a human female typically carried at least half a dozen babies to term. The fact that modern women are able to limit the number of children they bear has dramatic consequences for the incidence of uterine fibroids, as well as the clinical care of fibroids patients. "Fibroids, Menstruation, Childbirth, and Evolution" explores these connections, integrating a vast amount of medical knowledge about the uterus into one volume.

During pregnancy, the mother's blood prepares for an enormous hemostatic event: the delivery of the placenta. That fetal organ is the vascular link between mother and offspring. At childbirth, one-tenth of mother's cardiac output flows through the placenta, feeding the growing child. When the placenta is sheared away from its attachment to the uterus, two hundred large uteroplacental arteries are ripped apart and bleed profusely into the uterine cavity.

For many hours following delivery, uterine contractions slow blood flow within the uterus, allowing the high concentration of clotting factors built up in the mother's blood during pregnancy to solidify throughout the uterine circulation and stop blood loss. Then, hours later, the tide reverses, most of these uterine blood clots dissolve, and more normal blood flow returns to the uterus. This amazing process occurs with each pregnancy.

During this process, the uterus is ischemic and hypoxic. Unlike brain and heart, which can only survive minutes of decreased blood flow, the uterus can withstand dramatically diminished blood flow for hours. In fact, it is natural for this to occur once every few years. Uterine ischemia and hypoxia are a natural part of every woman's genetic makeup.

In 1995 a group of French physicians discovered that it was possible to emulate the physiology of childbirth by stopping blood flow to the uterus with small plastic particles. Initially, they injected these particles to diminish blood loss during subsequent fibroid surgery. However, they soon learned that the injection of these particles was therapeutic in and of itself for women with symptomatic fibroids.

Unbeknownst to this French group, earlier, in 1964, an American physician surgically occluded the uterine arteries to treat women without fibroids who had excessive monthly menstrual blood loss. Subsequent physicians have occluded the uterine arteries in various ways to treat a third common disorder, adenomyosis. Finally, these clinical successes suggest that future episodes of endometriosis may be preventable in some women treated with uterine artery closure.

Dr. Fred Burbank's comprehensive book provides insight into how physicians can use uterine artery closure techniques to more effectively treat uterine disorders. In addition, his book contains short courses on magnetic resonance imaging, hemodynamics, uterine artery embolization, and the hemostatic and hemolytic systems, making it possible for readers less familiar with these complex subjects to understand the text without referring to outside sources.

About the Author Dr. Burbank is an epidemiologist, a psychiatrist, a diagnostic radiologist, a cardiovascular interventionalist, and an expert in women's health. He is also an inventor-entrepreneur. For recreation, he flies, swims, and reads. For more information, please visit his bio on www.saltcreekmedical.com.

Medical Spanish: A Family Doc's Guide, Special Audio Edition is the most extensive Medical Spanish resource ever created for family medicine. At 688 pages, it is so complete, those who practice family medicine will never want to work without it again. History: Step-by-step phrases for taking a complete history. Don't know much Spanish? No problem. If you speak English, this book will allow you to obtain all the information you need from Spanish-speaking patients. It is that complete and easy to use. Physical Exam / Evaluation: Just as easy are the step-by-step phrases for performing a complete physical examination and evaluation. No matter what your Spanish level, this book orients the exam and evaluation to the way you think in English. Diagnosis: A virtual cookbook for instructing patients about numerous diagnostic issues. Want the information in technical terms? Want the information in lay terms? And want the information explained in the kind of Spanish, which your patients understand? Procedures: Need to explain the details of procedures to your patients? Just pick your topic. Treatment Explanations: A whole host of treatment issues and their explanations - from sinusitis and birth control to the common cold, hypertension, and many more. Vocabulary: From soups to nuts - literally - all of the vocabulary needed for family medicine is in this book. Audio: Over 2 hours of clear and crisp Spanish pronunciation, including essential phrases and vocabulary. Uncommonly simple - and utilitarian. This book has it all.

Get state-of-the-art coverage of the full range of imaging techniques available to assist in the diagnosis and therapeutic management of rheumatic diseases. Written by acknowledged experts in musculoskeletal imaging, this richly illustrated, full-color text presents the latest diagnostic and disease monitoring modalities - MRI, CT, ultrasonography, nuclear medicine, DXA - as well as interventional procedures. You'll find comprehensive coverage of specific rheumatic conditions, including osteoarticular and extra articular findings. This superb new publication puts you at the forefront of imaging in arthritis and metabolic bone disease - a must have reference for the clinician and imaging specialist.

In "CT Suite" the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT suite, the unit within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital where CT images are made and interpreted. Focusing on how expertise is performed and how CT images are made into diagnostic evidence, he concentrates not on the function of CT images for patients but on the function of the images for medical professionals going about their routines. Yet Saunders offers more than insider ethnography. He links diagnostic work to practices and conventions from outside medicine and from earlier historical moments. In dialogue with science and technology studies, he makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the visual cultures of medicine.

Saunders's analyses are informed by strands of cultural history and theory including art historical critiques of realist representation, Walter Benjamin's concerns about violence in "mechanical reproduction," and tropes of detective fiction such as intrigue, the case, and the culprit. Saunders analyzes the diagnostic "gaze" of medical personnel reading images at the viewbox, the two-dimensional images or slices of the human body rendered by the scanner, methods of archiving images, and the use of scans as pedagogical tools in clinical conferences. Bringing cloistered diagnostic practices into public view, he reveals the customs and the social and professional hierarchies that are formulated and negotiated around the weighty presence of the CT scanner. At the same time, by returning throughout to the nineteenth-century ideas of detection and scientific authority that inform contemporary medical diagnosis, Saunders highlights the specters of the past in what appears to be a preeminently modern machine.

Medical Spanish: A Guide for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Complete Volume, is the most extensive Medical Spanish resource ever created for Obstetrics and Gynecology. At 688 pages, it is so complete, those involved with obstetrics and gynecology will never want to work without it again. History: Step-by-step phrases for taking a complete medical, obstetrical, and gynecological history. Don't know much Spanish? No problem. If you speak English, you can take a history from Spanish-speaking patients with this book. It is that complete and easy to use. Evaluation: Just as easy are the step-by-step phrases for performing a complete obstetrical and gynecological examination and evaluation. No matter what your Spanish level, this book orients the evaluation to the way you think in English. Diagnosis: A virtual cookbook for instructing patients about numerous diagnostic issues. Want the diagnosis in technical terms? Want the diagnosis in lay terms? And want the diagnosis explained in the kind of Spanish, which your patients understand? Procedures: Need to explain the procedures you need to perform? Just pick your topic. Treatment and Explanations: A whole host of treatments and their explanations - from birth control and breast diseases to STDs, menopause and many more. Vocabulary: From soups to nuts - literally - all of the vocabulary needed to practice good obstetrics and gynecology is in this book. Uncommonly simple - and utilitarian. This book has it all.