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
