Month: April 2015

Editors: Mark S. Persky, Milton Waner, Francine Blei, and Alejandro Berenstein Publisher: Thieme – 154 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Twenty-three physicians and surgeons have brought together their knowledge, expertise and insight on vascular anomalies – lesions, malformations, and tumors, for example – into this single valuable book to help other specialists identify, classify, compare and contrast these conditions, and help treat the unfortunate afflicted patients. Four of these professionals – the editors named above – have extensive knowledge and deep experience in their specialty, having spent many years and dedicated large portions of their careers in this...

Editors: A. Joseph Layon, Andrea Gabrielli, and William A. Friedman Publisher: Springer – 988 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani A lot of new knowledge – through research in the laboratory and practice in hospitals – has been gathered in the nine years since the first edition of this textbook appeared, and much of that has been incorporated in this new edition. This book is the collective hard work of those scientists and clinicians who are at the forefront of the effort to better understand the causes of the neurologic diseases that afflict some of us, and to better...

Editors: Jose Fabio Duarte Lana, Maria Helena Andrade Santana, William Dias Belangero, and Angela Cristina Malheiros Luzo Publisher: Springer – 360 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The use of Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) is a rapidly-growing treatment option in many different cases and instances worldwide, a number of which are presented below as the book’s un-numbered chapters in its Contents pages. Research on this modality is coming out weekly, the editors write in their Preface, and a large body of knowledge now exists in this aspect of the growing specialty of regenerative medicine. Our bodies have a natural healing...

Series Editors: Michael J. Aminoff, Francois Boller, and Dick F. Swaab Volume Editors: Eric Fliers, Marta Karbonits, and Johannes A. Romijn Publisher: Elsevier – 432 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani What is the focus of clinical neuroendocrinology? This medical specialty focuses mainly on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and the treatment of diseases of the hypothalamus and the pituitary glands, two small organs located at the base of the human brain. To some extent, it also deals with the thyroid gland, because there is a hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) relationship in this field. Much progress has been made in neuroendocrinology in recent...