Chronic perinatal hypoxia causes a significant loss of total brain volume, brain weight and cortical neuron number. These measures are completely reversed following recovery in normoxic conditions....
This book gives an overview of ergonomics and shows this discipline and physiotherapy lying at the opposite ends of spectrum of care. It outlines the influence of ergonomics on the design of work-s...
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genetic disorder due to loss of function of specific genes. In newborns, symptoms include weak muscles, poor feeding, and slow development. Beginning in childhood, ...
Indigenous variety of local Mizo pig plays a vital role in the economic development of rural population of Mizoram. This variety of pig population is thriving under poor management condition becaus...
A wide array of systemic disorders encountered in internal medicine has manifestations in the oral cavity and the facial region. The mouth is a mirror of health or disease, a sentinel or early warn...
Lymphomas are a heterogeneous group of malignancies that arise from lymphocytes - a disease of the body's cells. Since the first report of lymphoma by Thomas Hodgkin in 1832, lymphomas have been gr...
The characteristic pathologic feature of UC is infiltration of the intestine by mononuclear cells, predominantly lymphocytes. Current research is directed to Vitamin D and its role in the disease a...
The urinary bladder cancer (UBC ) are most common type of cancer of the urinary tract. It is regarded as the second and the fourth most common cancer types for males in Iraq and in the United State...
Welcome to the first concise book of Skull fracture. It has always been our intent to produce a practical user-friendly book that helps clinicians and surgeons manage their patients who have skull ...
Tracheostomy is a life saving procedure which has been performed for almost 3500 years. This book is written to cover all aspects of tracheostomy including: Anatomy of Larynx and Trachea Physiolo...
Radiographs are a valuable diagnostic tool, as an adjunct to clinical examination in the diagnosis of dental diseases.Dentistry has witnessed tremendous advances in all its branches over the past t...
With the increased demand of implants in this modern era, any bony deficits of the jaws or alveolar bone resorption following tooth extraction can be challenging for predictable implant placement a...
This study aim at analysing the set-up error of head and neck cases, treated in a vacuum formed acrylic shell with an in-house immobilisation system. Two population groups were studied, namely virt...
Livestock cannot be considered in isolation from their environment. The link between livestock and human populations, common property resources and cropping necessitate for an effort to quantify an...
Probiotics are an emerging area of research in oral health; however, they have been well studied in relationship to systemic or gastrointestinal health. Knowledge of probiotics on the host immune s...
The aim of this dissertation is to review the effects of minimally invasive approch namely ATRAUMATIC restorative treatment (ART).ART is some time criticized because it is seen as being merely a re...
Improving reproductive health is central to achieving Millennium Development Goals on improving maternal health and reducing child mortality. This requires access of the women to safe and effective...
Cryptosporidiosis is an important disease in calves and in immune-compromised persons especially people living with HIV/ AIDS. Cryptosporidium parvum is the most important zoonotic pathogen transmi...
Erosive tooth wear, has for many years been a condition of little interest to clinical dental practice or dental public health. As there is a change in lifestyle, the total amount and frequency of ...
Violence Against Women has increasingly been recognized in the international areas as an obstacle to women's development and it may have a myriad of devastating consequences on women's long or shor...