Transactions American Surgical Association

Transactions of the American Surgical Association

The present volume fully maintains the high standard of its predecessors, and is a mine of wealth to the student of surgery. Most of the articles have appeared before in the weekly journals of New York, and many of them have been reproduced in this country ; but they are all worthy of careful reading, and one or two will prove of lasting value to surgical literature. There can be little doubt t...

Transactions of the American Surgical Association. Vol. II.

American Pediatric Surgical Association Ethics Statement

Although the intrinsic philosophy at the core of medical care has remained unchanged over the centuries, modern medicine is heavily dependent on pharmacological and technological advances. Effective medications, from analgesics and anesthetics to antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents, are continuously being developed and improved. The sophistication and reliability of ubiquitous medical equip...

Transactions of the American Mathematical

A generalisation of the theory of p-functions which applies, for instance, to the diagonal elements of one-parameter semigroups of infinite matrices which satisfy no boundedness condition. 1. Semigroups of positive matrices. The classical theory of Markov chains [l] with a continuous time parameter and a countable infinity of states (here labelled by the positive integers) is, in large measure,...

American Thyroid Association statement on optimal surgical management of goiter.

BACKGROUND Goiter, or benign enlargement of the thyroid gland, can be asymptomatic or can cause compression of surrounding structures such as the esophagus and/or trachea. The options for medical treatment of euthyroid goiter are short-lived and are limited to thyroxine hormone suppression and radioactive iodine ablation. The objective of this statement article is to discuss optimal surgical ma...