Adult and pediatric urology / Jay Y. Gillenwater [and three others], editors ; Anne M. Sydor, acquisition editor ; Brian Brown, developmental editor ; Mark Lerner, cover designer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillenwater, Jay Y. (Jay Young), 1933- editor.

Sydor, Anne M., editor.

Brown, Brian, editor.

Lerner, Mark, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genitourinary organs--Diseases.

Genitourinary organs.

Urology.

Pediatric urology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2854 p.)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this new edition of a three-volume reference concerning urologic disease, urologists Jay Y. Gillenwater (U. of Virginia), John T. Grayhack (Northwestern U.), Stuart S. Howards (U. of Virginia) and Michael E. Mitchell (U. of Washington) present 51 contributions by experts in the field. The first two volumes cover adult urology and include expanded information on prostatic diseases as well as new chapters on anatomy, diagnostic imaging, surgical management of calculus disease, bladder cancer, diseases of the retroperitoneum, alternative therapies, office urology, AIDS, and spinal cord injury. The third volume addresses pediatric urology and is arranged by pathophysiology and treatment modality. Illustrated with color and bandw images and drawings. c. Book News Inc.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Authors ""; ""Preface ""; ""Contents ""; ""SECTION I ADULT UROLOGY ""; ""1 SURGICAL ANATOMY OF THE GENITOURINARY SYSTEM ""; ""2 STANDARD DIAGNOSTIC CONSIDERATIONS ""; ""3 IMAGING ""; ""4 URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS ""; ""5 MANAGEMENT OF UROLOGIC PROBLEMS IN PREGNANCY""; ""6 UROLOGIC LASER SURGERY ""; ""7 GENITOURINARY MALIGNANCY: ETIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS, NATURAL HISTORY, AND TREATMENT ""; ""8 CALCULUS FORMATION ""; ""9 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CALCULUS DISEASE ""; ""10 PERIOPERATIVE CARE ""; ""11 RENAL AND URETERAL INJURIES ""

""12 TRAUMA TO THE LOWER URINARY TRACT""""13 THE ADRENALS""; ""14 THE KIDNEY""; ""15 ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL THERAPIES FOR UROLOGIC DISEASES""; ""16 RENAL TUMORS""; ""17 UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA OF THE UPPER URINARY TRACT""; ""18 ADULT LAPAROSCOPIC UROLOGY""; ""19 ENDOUROLOGY OF THE UPPER URINARY TRACT: NONCALCULOUS""; ""20 RENAL CYSTIC DISEASE""; ""21 HYDRONEPHROSIS""; ""22 RENAL TRANSPLANTATION""; ""23 RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION AND ISCHEMIC NEPHROPATHY""; ""24 THE URETER""; ""25 DISEASES OF THE RETROPERITONEUM""; ""26 VOIDING FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION""; ""27 SPINAL CORD INJURY""

""28 INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE BLADDER""""29 URINARY FISTULAE""; ""30 CANCER OF THE BLADDER""; ""31 URINARY DIVERSIONS AND CONTINENT RESERVOIRS""; ""32 BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA""; ""33 CARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE""; ""34 PROSTATITIS""; ""35 Male Infertility""; ""36 STRICTURES OF THE MALE URETHRA""; ""37 URETHRAL CARCINOMA""; ""38 GYNECOLOGIC ASPECTS OF UROLOGY""; ""39 URETHRITIS: ETIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND""; ""40 UROLOGIC ASPECTS OF AIDS AND HIV INFECTION""; ""41 TUMORS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE TESTIS, EPIDIDYMIS, AND""; ""42 THE PENIS: SEXUAL FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION""

""43 BENIGN AND MALIGNANT LESIONS OF THE PENIS""""44 DERMATOLOGIC LESIONS OF THE PENIS""; ""SECTION II PEDIATRIC UROLOGY""; ""45 EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE GENITOURINARY TRACT""; ""46 PERINATAL UROLOGY""; ""47 ANOMALIES OF THE KIDNEY""; ""48 THE URETER""; ""49 THE BLADDER""; ""50 THE URETHRA""; ""51 TOOLS OF RECONSTRUCTION""; ""52 THE GENITALIA""; ""53 PEDIATRIC ANDROLOGY""; ""54 PEDIATRIC UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY""; ""55 OFFICE PEDIATRIC UROLOGY""; ""56 PEDIATRIC ENDOUROLOGY""; ""RESOURCES""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4698-8040-7

OCLC:

54866702