CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical | ISBN: 0071460276 | edition 2007 | CHM | 1008 pages | 43,6 mb
Otolaryngology; head and neck surgery is a unique subspecialty in medicine that deals with medical and surgical management of disorders affecting the ear, nose, throat, and the neck; the care of the senses including smell, taste, balance and hearing fall under its domain. As a specialty, it interfaces with other medical and surgical subspecialties including allergy and immunology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, pulmonology, radiation oncology, rehabilitation medicine, rheumatology, thoracic surgery, among others. Further, the specialty encompasses the care of the young and the old, man and woman, as well as benign and malignant diseases.
