A clinical guide to urologic emergencies / 
edited by Hunter Wessells, Shigeo Horie, Reynaldo Guillermo Gómez. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/> The Editors<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Shigeo Horie, MD, PhD, is Professor and Chairman in the Department of Urology at Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan<br/><br/>Reynaldo G. Gómez, MD, FACS, is Chief of Urology at the Hospital del Trabajador, Santiago, Chile. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>Contributors<br/><br/>Preface<br/><br/>SECTION 1 Upper Urinary Tract<br/><br/>1 Blunt Renal Injuries<br/><br/>Lindsay Hampson and Nnenaya Mmonu<br/><br/>2 Penetrating Renal Trauma – A Civilian and Military Perspective<br/><br/>Jonathan Wingate<br/><br/>3 Renal Infections<br/><br/>Brusabhanu Nayak, Nitin Srivastava, and Rajeev Kumar<br/><br/>4 Acute Kidney Stone Management<br/><br/>Justin S. Ahn and Jonathan D. Harper<br/><br/>5 Traumatic Adrenal Hemorrhage<br/><br/>Hong Truong and Bradley D. Figler<br/><br/>6 External Ureteral Trauma<br/><br/>Humberto G. Villarreal and Steven J. Hudak<br/><br/>7 Iatrogenic Ureteral injury<br/><br/>Haruaki Kato, Kazuyoshi Iijima, Tomohiko Oguchi, Seiji Yano<br/><br/>SECTION 2 Lower Urinary Tract<br/><br/>8 Bladder Injuries<br/><br/>Yosuke Nakajima<br/><br/>9 TRAUMATIC URETHRAL INJURIES<br/><br/>Laura G. Velarde and Reynaldo G. Gómez<br/><br/>10 Acute management of urethral stricture<br/><br/>Akio Horiguchi<br/><br/>11 PROSTATITIS AND PROSTATIC ABSCESS<br/><br/>Hunter Wessells<br/><br/>SECTION 3 External Genitalia<br/><br/>12 Fournier’s Gangrene<br/><br/>Kosuke Kitamura and Shigeo Horie<br/><br/>13 Traumatic Penile Injuries<br/><br/>Ariel Fredrick and Alex J. Vann<br/><br/>14 Priapism<br/><br/>Akash A. Kapadia, Kevin Ostrowski and Thomas J. Walsh<br/><br/>15 Traumatic Scrotal and Testicular Injuries<br/><br/>Marios Hadjipavlou and Davendra Sharm                                                             <br/><br/>16 Testicular Torsion<br/><br/>Alexander J. Skokan and Dana A. Weiss<br/><br/>17 Epididymitis and Orchitis<br/><br/>Norman Zambrano<br/><br/>SECTION 4 Pediatric<br/><br/>18 Urologic Neonatal Emergencies<br/><br/>Nicolas Fernandez and Nayib Fakih<br/><br/>Index 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781119021476 9781119021490 9781119021483 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Male Urogenital Diseases<br/>Urogenital System--injuries<br/>Emergencies
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC874.8 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.6/025 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WJ 140