A clinical guide to urologic emergencies / edited by Hunter Wessells, Shigeo Horie, Reynaldo Guillermo Gómez.

The Editors

Hunter Wessells, MD, FACS, is Professor and Nelson Chair of Urology in the Department of Urology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.

Shigeo Horie, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Urology at Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Reynaldo G. Gómez, MD, FACS, is Chief of Urology at the Hospital del Trabajador, Santiago, Chile.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contributors

Preface

SECTION 1 Upper Urinary Tract

1 Blunt Renal Injuries

Lindsay Hampson and Nnenaya Mmonu

2 Penetrating Renal Trauma – A Civilian and Military Perspective

Jonathan Wingate

3 Renal Infections

Brusabhanu Nayak, Nitin Srivastava, and Rajeev Kumar

4 Acute Kidney Stone Management

Justin S. Ahn and Jonathan D. Harper

5 Traumatic Adrenal Hemorrhage

Hong Truong and Bradley D. Figler

6 External Ureteral Trauma

Humberto G. Villarreal and Steven J. Hudak

7 Iatrogenic Ureteral injury

Haruaki Kato, Kazuyoshi Iijima, Tomohiko Oguchi, Seiji Yano

SECTION 2 Lower Urinary Tract

8 Bladder Injuries

Yosuke Nakajima

9 TRAUMATIC URETHRAL INJURIES

Laura G. Velarde and Reynaldo G. Gómez

10 Acute management of urethral stricture

Akio Horiguchi

11 PROSTATITIS AND PROSTATIC ABSCESS

Hunter Wessells

SECTION 3 External Genitalia

12 Fournier’s Gangrene

Kosuke Kitamura and Shigeo Horie

13 Traumatic Penile Injuries

Ariel Fredrick and Alex J. Vann

14 Priapism

Akash A. Kapadia, Kevin Ostrowski and Thomas J. Walsh

15 Traumatic Scrotal and Testicular Injuries

Marios Hadjipavlou and Davendra Sharm

16 Testicular Torsion

Alexander J. Skokan and Dana A. Weiss

17 Epididymitis and Orchitis

Norman Zambrano

SECTION 4 Pediatric

18 Urologic Neonatal Emergencies

Nicolas Fernandez and Nayib Fakih

Index

"Urological Emergencies is an up-to-date, clinical guide offering the best practices in diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with urgent urological conditions. Designed to offer practical guidance at all times, it will provide doctors with an extremely useful tool to consult in the clinical setting. To achieve this, each chapter will feature the following pedagogic features: * Summary overviews * Key practice/learning points * Potential pitfalls/"do's and don'ts" boxes * Diagnostic decision trees * Management algorithms * Summary conclusions * Case studies * MCQs to support active learning Edited by an outstanding international editor team who will recruit a diverse cross-section of the world's leading experts as authors, the book will be aimed at specialist and trainee urologists managing patients in the diverse healthcare settings across the globe. The coverage will be comprehensive for a host of acute urological conditions ranging from traumatic, infectious, and obstructive to haemorrhagic, vascular, and congenital urological emergencies. It will also be a useful resource for emergency medicine practitioners. Emphasis throughout will be on providing the best Clinical management of patients possible; therefore the main focus is on the clinical aspects most relevant to practicing urologists"-- Provided by publisher.

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