Logo

The Surgical Techniques in Pediatric and Adolescent Urology is consisting of 13 sections and 95 chapters describing the anatomy, embryology, radiology of urinary tract, then to the surgical techniques for each of the genitourinary (GU) organ reconstruction in details. The ethical aspect and care of child overall during the process of surgery is described in depth for broader understanding. Total 1697 images with 1503 colored illustrations have been drawn to describe the each surgical step as clearly and easily possible. The online version has clinical pictures along with some of the videos. Key Features: First comprehensive Pediatric Urology Surgery book, with detailed surgical steps, in this decade. Online clinical pictures with corresponding printed line diagrams for better understanding. Digital videos accessible online. Covers wide range of topics in Pediatric Urology and reconstruction. Contributed by international authors with expertise in the field.

Contents: I. History, Anesthesia and Basic Surgical Principles and Training: 1. History of Pediatric Urological Reconstructions/Duncan R Morhardt and David A Bloom. 2. Ethical Consideration in Pediatric Surgical Reconstructions/Mindy B Statter and Peter Angelos. 3. Special Anesthetic Consideration in Infants Toddlers/Annie Amin and Igor Tkachenko. 4. Postoperative Pain Control and Regional Anesthesia/Ashish Gupta and Andrew Wuenstel. 5. Recent Advances on Long-term Effects of Anesthesia on Children/Roshan Patel and Zheng Xie. 6. Fluid, Electrolyte Balance and Parenteral Nutrition/Sudhir Sriram and Jaideep K Singh. 7. Basic Surgical Principles of Pediatric Surgery/Nikunj K Chokshi and Mark B Slidell. 8. Plastic Surgical Principles: Skin Flaps/Tissue Transfer/Myocutaneous Flaps in Consideration of Urological Reconstructions/David H Song. 9. Surgical Scars, Prevention, Excisions and Revisions/Lydia Willimas and Russell R Reid. 10. Basics of Instrumentation, Suture Material and Equipment for Open Surgery/Gursev Sandlas. 11. Surgical Training in 21st Century (Role of Simulation/Inanimate Models)/Thomas G Leffler, Alison C Keenan and Patrick H McKenna. 12. Role of Simulation in Current Era of Surgical Training/Prasad Patki and Srivathsan Ramani. II. Fetal Urology: 13. Clinical Embryology of Urinary and Genital Tracts/Caroline Kuhn and Callum F Ross. III. Male Genital Reconstruction: 14. Anatomy of Penis and Neural Innervation in Respect to Hypospadias and Epispadias Reconstructions/Natalija Kovacevic and Yegappan Lakshmanan. 15. Surgical Reconstructions of Distal Hypospadias: The University of Chicago Experience/Nimrod S Barashi and Mohan S Gundeti. 16. Two-stage Repair of Proximal Hypospadias/Christopher Long and Mark R Zaontz. 17. Different Methods of Repair for Chordae Corrections without Hypospadias/Marcos Perez-Brayfield and Ramphis A Morales-López.T.....IV. Female Genital Reconstruction. V. Renal Reconstructions. VI. Ureteral Reconstructions. VII. Prerequisites Prior to Lower Tract Reconstructions. VIII. Bladder, Bladder Neck and Continence Procedures. IX. Reconstruction Involving Gastrointestinal Segments. X. Oncological and Other Reconstructions. XI. Stones. XII. Imaging of Urinary Tract Prior to Reconstruction. XIII. Future of Pediatric Urology. Index .