Surgical innovations : improving the quality of life / guest editor, Robert M. Palmer.

"August, 2006."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Surgical innovations: impact on the quality of life of the older patient -- Hip and knee arthroplasty in the geriatric population -- Kyphoplasty: vertebral augmentation for compression fractures -- Innovations in treating the elderly who have biliary and pancreatic disease -- Cardiac surgery in the elderly: indications and management options to optimize outcomes -- Minimally invasive approaches to vascular procedures in the elderly -- Brest surgery: minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment -- Surgical innovations in pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence -- Neurosurgery in the elderly: brain tumors and subdural hematomas -- Normal pressure hydrocepalus: diagnosis and new approaches to treatment -- Innovations in eye surgery -- Cochlear implants -- Renal transplantation: older recipients and donors -- Cosmetic procedures for the aging face.