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(Churchill Livingstone) Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Text includes procedures representing the core of modern urologic surgery as practiced throughout the world. Both open and endoscopic surgery are discussed. Only the most critical and essential steps of the procedure are depicted in the illustrations, which are halftone line drawings. DNLM: Urogenital Diseases--surgery. ... Read more

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The most brilliant minds....
assemble together in Operative Urology to create an excellent reference text for medical students, physicians and surgeons, and other medical professionals to live by.Operative Urology is authored by several of the most dedicated, medical stalwarts who lived during the 20th century; especially so, the surgical genius of Robert J. Krane, MD, an excellent humanitarian and brilliant surgeon - the caliber of individual who graces society once every hundred years. Medical students and practicing urological surgeons worldwide should embrace Operative Urology as the culmination of expertise of those exceptional individuals defining urology into the 21st century.

Excelent practical tips for urologists
This is a fine, well ilustrated book which is a must-have for practicing urologists and residents. The topics in each chapter are up-to-date and cover the operations done in daily practice by office or hospital based urologists. ... Read more

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This book describes in detail, a new technique of laparascopic surgery, called Gaur's balloon technique of retroperitoneal laparascopy, also known as retroperitoneoscopy. The technique was discovered and developed by the author, while working at the Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences and is now widely accepted and used all over the world. The book is written in two parts, the first deals with the basics and the second deals with the applications of the technique procedures on the organs situated at the back of the abdomen (the retroperitoneal organs). Major operations often require for extraction of larger kidney stones, for removal of diseased retroperitoneal organs like the kidneys and the adrenals or for plastic repair of the urinary tract to cure urinary obstruction or female urinary inconstinence can now be performed using this new minimally invasive technique. This is an important breakthrough in the field of laparascopy, as earlier the laparascopic surgeons had to take a devious and potentially risky route to approach to retroperitoneal organs. ... Read more

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Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD. Clinical text/reference on operative urology for the practitioner or resident. Covers indications, preoperative evaluation and management, operative techniques, postoperative management, and complications for urologic procedures. 152 contributors, 143 U.S. ... Read more

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Univ. of London, UK. Text for medical students and surgical residents. Concise handbook to the diagnosis and management of urologic disorders. Previous edition: c1997. Softcover. DNLM: Urologic Diseases. ... Read more

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check points of clinical urology
Bestbook for the young dotor ... Read more

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Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin. Third edition of an extensive text, for urologists and pediatricians. Previous edition 1982. Halftone illustrations. 104 contributors, 60 U.S. ... Read more

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PDR® eMedguides™

Clear and concise internet navigational directories designed to lead physicians directly to websites that have been reviewed by peer leaders and professionals in various medical specialties. Each guide focuses on a single specialty and reviews over 1,600 related websites. Unlike search engines, eMedguides list only authoritative sites that offer useful professional content. ... Read more

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The book is intended as an introduction to the emerging sub-speciality and broadly follows the guidelines for training as set out by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. It is not intended to be comprehensive or all-embracing. It is hoped that as well as proving a useful introduction to medical graduates within gynaecology, both before and after the membership examination, it might also be useful to hospital and community-based nurses, incontinence advisors, physiotherapists and general practitioners - indeed anyone involved in the management and counselling of women with urological problems. ... Read more

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Superbly edited by an acclaimed expert in the field, this highly clinical text-reference covers virtually every pediatric urologic disorder.In-depth and comprehensive, it examines such difficult topics as tumors of the urinary tract, management of the child with sexual ambiguity, and more.A useful guide for urologists, pediatricians, and pediatric and general surgeons. ... Read more

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Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the major imaging modes used in urology. This book explains and illustrates its optimal usage. The authors present an updated synoposis of the possible uses of computed tomography in urology, as well as pediatric urology. After a short introduction to CT technology, the cross-section anatomy of different clinical pictures is presented. Typical CT images, CT differential diagnoses, and complementary examination procedures (especially the possible uses of magnetic resonance imaging) are discussed based on the clinical differential diagnosis. Diseases of the adrenals, kidneys, ureter, bladder, urethra, prostate, seminal vesicles and retroperitoneum are dealt with, as well as CT imaging of postoperative changes and lithiasis. ... Read more

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Neuro-urology is the subspecialty concerned with micturitional (urinary) disorders secondary to neurologic disease. While the changes in the diagnosis of neuro-urologic disorders have been great, advances in treatment modalities have been even greater. *
Concise but complete discussion of urological dysfunction in all neurological disease * Written for non-urologists - easy to read, clinically focused ... Read more

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This lavishly illustrated atlas consists of detailed, step-by-step descriptions of the procedures used in lower urinary tract reconstruction, with particular reference to the female urinary tract.Two of the foremost reconstructive urologists in the world have devised and developed these procedures during the course of their practice, making this atlas a unique collection. The book focuses on a functional approach, outlining the basic principles of underlying reconstructive urology.The authors offer a wealth of practical tips, observations and clinical pearls, helping to reduce complications and make operations easier.Each procedure is described by a sequence of color photographs, with running captions explaining the particular importance of each stage.It is an indispensible guide to reconstructive urology for urologists and gynecologists alike.

Lavishly illustrated

Many previously unpublished techniques

Internationally celebrated author

Basic principles of underlying reconstructive surgery are oulined ... Read more