Medical Electricity, 8th Edition

Contemporary issues in the new Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Medical Practitioners (8th Edition 2016).

Comparative study of the 7th and 8th AJCC editions for gastric cancer patients after curative surgery

OBJECTIVES The classification of pathological tumor-node-metastasis (pTNM) staging of gastric cancer was revised in the 8th American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) edition. The major revision was the separation of pN3a and pN3b in the pTNM staging. The current study evaluated the prognostic impact of this change. METHODS A total of 1,517 patients who underwent curative surgery for gastric c...

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary

We have several times noticed new editions of this now standard Medical Dictionary. The 7th Edition appeared only in 1913 and two years later we find a new revised and enlarged 8th Edition. The text matter has been enlarged by 30 pages, several hundreds of new terms have been defined, the illustrations are better than ever. Under the heading Tests a multitude of new terms have been explained, 1...

Dorland's Medical Dictionaries

logy of the medical science, especially marked in serology, physiology, and pathological chemistry, will be found ; over 5,000 new terms having been added to the last edition. The smaller Dictionary is equally up-to-date and now appears in its 8th edition since 1898. The definitions and explanations are practically the same as those in the larger illustrated edition, but derivations and pronunc...

Validation of the 8th edition of the UICC/AJCC staging system for nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy

An accurate TNM staging system is crucial for treatment guidance and prognosis prediction in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients. In this retrospective study, we evaluated the 8th edition of the Union for International Cancer Control/American Joint Committee on Cancer (UICC/AJCC) staging system for NPC treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). A total of 608 patients with biopsy...