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Instrumentation for Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine

Arthroscopic surgery plays a crucial role in sports medicine practice. Many orthopedics procedures have been found to be amenable to the arthroscopic approach, and innovative tools have been introduced in the ...

Alberto Grassi, Emanuele Altovino, Giacomo Dal Fabbro… in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

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Environmental Impact on the Hypothalamus–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) are exogenous compounds interfering with the actions of hormones at several steps. They are part of our environment and come in contact with humans frequently, through diff...

Krystallenia I. Alexandraki… in Environmental Endocrinology and Endocrine … (2023)

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Environmental Impact on the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Testis Axis

Many andrological pathologies seen in adults, including infertility, actually arose in younger age, due to the strong susceptibility and vulnerability of male gonad to external insults, starting from gestation...

Andrea Di Nisio, Christian Corsini… in Environmental Endocrinology and Endocrine … (2023)

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Hydro-saline Alterations in Central Adrenal Insufficiency

Central adrenal insufficiency (CAI) is a rare endocrine disorder characterized by impaired adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) production, due to primary pituitary alterations or improper hypothalamic stimulati...

Rosario Pivonello, Chiara Simeoli, Nicola Di Paola… in Hydro Saline Metabolism (2023)

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Chinese Herbal Medicines for Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Women

Recurrent urinary tract infection (RUTI) is characterized by disrupted urinary function and is commonly treated with antibiotics. However, antibiotic resistance and adverse effects associated with antibiotic t...

Qianchun Yang, **n **ao, Shuo Chen… in Handbook of Chinese Medicine Clinical Tria…

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Adrenal Heterotopia

Gioia Di Stefano, Raffaella Santi, Gabriella Nesi in Endocrine Pathology (2022)

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Adrenal Myelolipoma

Ilaria Camilla Galli, Gioia Di Stefano, Raffaella Santi… in Endocrine Pathology (2022)

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Revolving Door

Substance use may influence the onset and course of psychiatric diseases. The “revolving door” phenomenon, which indicates repeated hospitalizations of the same patients, has become a public health issue, both...

Giuseppe Di Martino MD in Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions

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Adrenalitis

Gioia Di Stefano, Ilaria Camilla Galli, Raffaella Santi… in Endocrine Pathology (2022)

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Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH)

Gioia Di Stefano, Gabriella Nesi in Endocrine Pathology (2022)

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Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Gioia Di Stefano, Gabriella Nesi in Endocrine Pathology (2022)

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Revolving Door

Substance use may influence the onset and course of psychiatric diseases. The “revolving door” phenomenon, which indicates repeated hospitalizations of the same patients, has become a public health issue, both...

Giuseppe Di Martino in Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions (2022)

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Imaging of Pediatric Traumatic and Nontraumatic Abdominal and Pelvic Emergencies

Abdominal pain is one of the most frequent causes of emergency department (ED) visits in pediatric patients. The role of diagnostic imaging is to help the pediatric emergency physician and pediatric surgeon to...

Margherita Trinci, Marco Di Maurizio… in Atlas of Emergency Imaging from Head-to-Toe (2022)

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Surgical Management of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Globally, pancreatic cancer accounts for 4% of all cancer-related deaths and will become the second largest cause of cancer-related deaths by 2030. The most important intervention in the multimodal therapy for...

Antonio Di Carlo, Meredith Gunder, Cataldo Doria in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Malignancies (2022)

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Hydro-saline Alterations in Central Adrenal Insufficiency

Central adrenal insufficiency (CAI) is a rare endocrine disorder characterized by impaired adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) production, due to primary pituitary alterations or improper hypothalamic stimulati...

Rosario Pivonello, Chiara Simeoli, Nicola Di Paola… in Hydro Saline Metabolism

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Tonometry and Tonography

This chapter reviews tonometry, the indirect measurement of intraocular pressure via deformation of the globe, and tonography, the measurement of the rate of aqueous outflow. With regards to tonometry, it expl...

Di Zhou, John McDermott, Nisha Chadha in Albert and Jakobiec's Principles and Pract… (2022)

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Endoscopic Resection of Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Techniques and Outcomes

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is the 7th most common cancer worldwide and 6th leading cause for cancer death. The incidence of ESCC is declining; however the overall prognosis remains very poor. St...

Massimiliano di Pietro, Seiichiro Abe in Gastrointestinal and Pancreatico-Biliary D… (2022)

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Personalized Medicine for Patients with Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreatic Cancer

Cancers of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas are among the gravest and most challenging issues for medical oncologists, being substantially chemo-resistant malignancies. In spite of the increasing inciden...

Monica Valente, Alessia Covre… in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Malignancies (2022)

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Psychotherapy for Suicide Prevention

A wide variety of psychotherapeutic interventions was found to be useful for the prevention of suicide. The aim of this chapter was to provide an updated and complete overview of all these interventions, with ...

Raffaella Calati, William Mansi… in Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention (2022)