The Atlas of Clinical Urology series captures today's entire state of knowledge about urology in detailed, pictorial form. Under the distinguished direction of Series Editors E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr., and Aaron P. Perlmutter and 11 renowned Volume Editors, more than 100 prominent urologists bring you images of exceptional quality that exemplify contemporary science and practice. Each volume explores a particular aspect of the field. In total, the Atlas of Clinical Urology contains over 3,000 vivid line drawings, clinical photographs, diagrams, charts, and tables to illustrate every facet of the principles an practices of clinical urology. Together with detailed legends and extensive reference listings, these illustrations deliver insightful guidance to help you meet a full range of clinical challenges.
John D. McConnell, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Peter T. Scardino, MD, Chief, Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Murray F. Brennan Chair of Surgery, Head, Prostate Cancer Program, Memorial SLoan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. Series Preface
As urology enters the 21st century, it is appropriate that the Atlas of Clinical Urology series captures and explains the major areas of modern urologic practice using a unique combination of images, schematics, tables, and algorithms. It does so in a compelling fashion, by combining a multilevel approach that includes the individual volumes and the internet. Urology is a specialty of great breadth, and visual images provide much of the backbone of urologic diagnosis and endoscopy and are key to surgical technique. The increasingly complex diagnostic and treatment paths are best depicted and understood as visual algorithms.
The editors of this five-volume series have not only contributed their world-renowned expertise to the chapters but have also assembled an outstanding group of individual chapter authors. Together, they provide each volume with completeness, depth, and-most important in this age of rapidly expanding science and technology-current urologic thinking.
In Volume I, Tom Lue and his contributors cover the expanding area of impotence from anatomic considerations through many of the new treatment modalities. As our population ages, urologists are evaluating and treating an expanding number of impotent patients. This section provides an excellent understanding and practical approach. In the second half of Volume I, Marc Goldstein and his expert colleagues provide a beautiful series of images that depict the important aspects of reproductive anatomy and endocrinology, as well as detailed surgical schematics demonstrating the ever-evolving "standard" surgery for infertility in addition to new assisted-reproduction techniques.
It would be fair to say that the 1990s are the decade of the prostate, and Volume II captures the paradigm changes that occurred in the management of both prostate cancer and benign disease. Management of prostate cancer is challenging, and the section by Peter Scardino provides a clear, concise, factual background for understanding prostate cancer and the myriad of treatment options. John McConnell's section on noncancerous diseases provides the background for understanding the new treatment modalities available for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The choices of pharmacologic management and device therapies continue to challenge even the most seasoned urologist, and the diagnostic and treatment schematics provided in the section have been constructed by leaders in the field.
Renal carcinoma is covered in Volume III by section editor Andrew Novick. Radiologic images play an increasing role in our diagnosis and management of renal cancer, and the visual image format of the Atlas is ideal. The challenges of nephron sparing and vena caval surgery are clearly illustrated and are combined with an understanding of the appropriate patient populations for these procedures. This section also includes the management of benign and malignant adrenal disorders. Michael Marberger has assembled an extremely diverse and important set of noncancerous diseases of the kidney. Nephrolithiasis management is covered from medical therapy to endoscopy to incisional surgery. The important role that laparoscopy has established in both excisional and reconstructive renal surgery is visually depicted and explained. The evolution of the techniques illustrated in this section will likely provide the basis for renal intervention in the 21st century.
Volume IV covers the diversity of pediatric urology under the editorship of Dix Poppas and Alan Retik. This volume provides images illustrating the most important diseases that confront the pediatric urologist. In addition, the changes in management and thinking in classic conditions such as vesicoureteral reflux and neurogenic vesical dysfunction are illustrated. This volume will not only be of great value to the practicing pediatric urologist, but also to general urologists as well as pediatricians and pediatric nephrologists.
Bladder diseases cause many patients to seek urologic care. In Voume V, Donald Skinner and John Stein have assembled state-of-the-art contributions in the management of bladder and urethral cancer. The combination of a better understanding of bladder cancer and new options in surgical urinary diversions is changing the management of bladder cancer. The role of surgery and surgical approaches to bladder cancer are illustrated in this volume by the innovative surgeons who contributed chapters to the section. Voiding dysfunction and incontinence as well as inflammatory and infectious conditions of the bladder are covered by Alan Wein's section. The excellent contributions to this section provide an illustrated understanding of the neuromuscular function of the lower urinary tract, and the images reproduced in this volume allow an easy understanding of the diagnosis and management of incontinence, inflammatory conditions, and fistulae.
These section editors and authors deserve tremendous credit for this Atlas of Clinical Urology, which was initiated by Abe Krieger, President of Current Medicine. We thank Abe, the developmental editors, and the excellent illustrators of Current Medicine for their outstanding efforts.
E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr. Aaron P. Perlmutter
