9781639275076
Timothy Lawson
American Medical Publishers
English
2021
Urology
252
$ 168.99
A surgical specialty that deals with the treatment of conditions involving the male and female urinary tract and the male reproductive organs is known as urology. The ailments that can be treated by urologists include those involving the kidneys, the ureters, the adrenal glands, the bladder, and the urethra. Issues related to the male reproductive organs such as disorders of the testes, epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate, and penis are also treated under urology. It involves the medical management of conditions such as urinary tract infection and prostate enlargement as well as the surgical management of conditions such as bladder cancer, prostate cancer, kidney stones and stress incontinence. Some of the subspecialties that come under urology are endourology, urologic oncology, neurourology, pediatric urology and andrology. This book elucidates new techniques and their applications in a multidisciplinary manner. The various studies that are constantly contributing towards advancing technologies and the evolution of this field are examined in detail. Scientists and students actively engaged in the study of urology will find this book full of crucial and unexplored concepts.