Oxford Textbook of Urological Surgery

Offering a comprehensive guide, the Oxford Textbook of Urological Surgery is a practical resource mapped to the curriculum for urological training as approved by the General Medical Council (GMC), making it particularly useful in preparation for the Intercollegiate Examination.

Presented in a clear and accessible way, this evidence based volume covers all major areas, including functional urology, stone disease, infection, andrology, nephrology, transplantation, uroradiology, and paediatric urology.

This highly illustrated full colour textbook has an innovative and user-friendly style, including over 500 photographs, clinical images, and line drawings. Bringing together the expertise of over 100 specialist contributors in the field, the Oxford Textbook of Urological Surgery is a highly valuable source of information, and will become the standard reference text for all who study urological disease and its treatment.

Table of Contents

Section 1
1.1: Pathogenesis of urinary tract infection, Ased Ali
1.2: Antimicrobial agents, Kathy Walton, Sally Ager
1.3: Hospital acquired urinary tract infection, Roger Bayston
1.4: Cystitis/pyelonephritis, Bjorn Wullt, Magnus Grabe
1.5: Renal and retroperitoneal abscess, Alice Hartley, Toby Page
1.6: Tuberculosis and parasitic infestations involving the urogenital system, Christiaan F. Heyns
1.7: Inflammation: Prostatitis syndrome, Florian M.E. Wagenlehner, Adrian Pilatz, Th. Bschleipfer, Thomas Diemer, Wolfgang Weidner
1.8: Inflammation: Epididymitis and scrotal abscess, Mary Garthwaite
1.9: Fournier's, Francesco Greco, Paolo Fornara
1.1: Sexually transmitted diseases, Emma J. McCarty, Wallace Dinsmore
1.11: Painful bladder syndrome/Interstitial cystitis, Magnus Fall
Section 2
2.1: Epidemiology of stone disease, Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.2: Kidney stones: types and predisposing factorsa, Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.3: Evaluation of stone former, Glenn Preminger, Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Michael Lipkin
2.4: Prevention of calcium oxalate stone formation, Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.5: Prevention of other non-calcium stones, Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin
2.6: Stone fragmentation techniques: Extracorporal shock wave lithotripsy, Andreas Neisius, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin
2.7: Intracorporeal techniques of stone fragmentation, Gastón M. Astroza, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin
2.8: Kidney stones: presentation and diagnosis, Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.9: Watchful waiting for stone disease, Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.10: Retrograde intrarenal surgery: Flexible ureterorenoscopy, Glenn Preminger, Gastón M. Astroza, Michael Lipkin
2.11: Kidney stone treatment: Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), Andreas Neisius, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin
2.12: Open stone surgery for kidney stones, Glenn Preminger, Gastón M. Astroza, Michael Lipkin
2.13: Medical therapy (dissolution therapy), Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.14: Ureteric stones: Presentation and diagnosis, Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.15: Ureteric stones: Acute management, Samarpit Rai, Zachariah G. Goldsmith, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin
2.16: Ureteral stones: Indications for intervention, Charles D. Scales
2.17: Surgical treatment options for ureteric stones: Techniques and complications, Zachariah G. Goldsmith, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin
2.18: Management of ureteric stones in pregnancy, Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.19: Bladder stones, Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard
2.2: Upper urinary tract obstruction, Mark Sullivan, John Henderson, Inderbir Gill
2.21: The principles of endourology, Stephen Keoghane, Mark Sullivan
2.22: Principles of laparoscopic and robotic urological surgery, Mark Sullivan, Nilay Patel, Inderbir Gill
Section 3
3.1: Anatomy, neurophysiology and pharmacological control mechanisms of the bladder, Donna Daly, Christopher Chapple
3.2: Urodynamics, Hashim Hashim, Julie Ellis-Jones
3.3: Urinary incontinence principles, Christopher Chapple, Nadir Osman
3.4: Assessment of urinary incontinence, Marcus Drake
3.5: Stress urinary incontinence, Christopher Chapple, Altaf Mangera
3.6: Pelvic organ prolapse, Roland Morley, Eduardo Cortes, Mohammed Belal, Arun Sahai
3.7: Urgency incontinence and OAB, Christopher Chapple, Altaf Mangera
3.8: Urinary fistula, Christopher Chapple, Nadir Osman
3.9: Urethral diverticula, Christopher Chapple, Nadir Osman
3.1: Faecal incontinence, Christopher Chapple
3.11: Urinary retention in women, Clare Fowler, Jalesh Panicker
3.12: Spinal cord injury, Simon Harrison
3.13: Non-traumatic neurourology, Clare Fowler, Jalesh Panicker
Section 4
4.1: Principles of reconstructive urology, Anthony R. Mundy, Daniela E. Andrich
4.2: Upper urinary tract reconstruction, Anthony R. Mundy, Daniela E. Andrich
4.3: Lower urinary tract reconstruction, Anthony R. Mundy, Daniela E. Andrich
4.4: Urethral strictures, Anthony R. Mundy, Daniela E. Andrich
4.5: Upper urinary tract trauma, Anthony R. Mundy, Daniela E. Andrich
4.6: Lower urinary tract trauma, Anthony R. Mundy, Daniela E. Andrich
4.7: Genital trauma, Anthony R. Mundy, Daniela E. Andrich
4.8: General principles of trauma, Graham Sleat, David Noyes
Section 5
5.1: Bladder outflow obstruction, Christopher Chapple, Altaf Mangera
5.2: Retention in men, Mark Speakman
5.3: Benign prostatic hyperplasia, Nikesh Thiruchelvam
Section 6
6.1: Epidemiology of prostate cancer, Tim Key, Alison J. Price
6.2: Molecular biology of prostate cancer, Ines Teles Alves, Jan Trapman, Guido Jenster
6.3: Prostate Cancer: Pathology, Rodolfo Montironi, Liang Cheng, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Roberta Mazzucchelli, Matteo Santoni
6.4: Prostate-Specific Antigen and Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer, Hans Lilja
6.5: Screening for prostate cancer, Fritz H. Schröder
6.6: Clinical features, assessment and imaging of prostate cancer, Anders Bjartell, David Ulmert
6.7: Prostate cancer: treatment of localised disease, Matthew Cooperberg, Peter Carroll
6.8: Focal therapy for prostate cancer, Hashim Uddin Ahmed, Louise Dickinson, Mark Emberton
6.9: High risk prostate cancer, S. Joniau, S. Van Bruwaene, J. Karnes, G. De Meerleer, P. Gontero, M. Spahn, A. Briganti
6.1: Technology and prostatectomy, Giacomo Novara, Alexander Mottrie, Filiberto Zattoni, Vincenzo Ficarra
6.11: Metastatic disease in prostate cancer, Noel W. Clarke
6.12: Novel therapies and emerging strategies for the treatment of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), Deborah Mukherji, Johann De Bono, Aurelius Omlin, Carmel Pezaro
6.13: Bladder and upper urinary tract cancer, Mieke Goossens, Frank Buntin, Maurice P. Zeegers
6.14: Molecular biology of bladder cancer, Dan Theodorescu, Neveen Said
6.15: Pathology of bladder and upper urinary tract tumours, Arndt Hartmann, Simone Bertz
6.16: Screening for bladder cancer, Maurice P. Zeegers, Maree Brinkman
6.17: General overview of bladder cancer, Richard J. Bryant, James W. Catto
6.18: The investigation of haematuria, Richard J. Bryant, James W. Catto
6.19: Low and intermediate risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, Yair Lotan, Aditya Bagrodia
6.2: Bladder cancer: high-grade non-muscle invasive disease, Richard P. Meijer, B.W.G. van Rhijn, Alexandre R. Zlotta
6.21: Muscle invasive bladder cancer (pT2-4), George Thalmann, Pascal Zehnder
6.22: Chemotherapy in the treatment of invasive and metastatic bladder cancer, Cora N. Sternberg, Fabio Calabrò
6.23: Squamous cell bladder cancer, Max Burger, Roman Mayr
6.24: Adenocarcinoma of the bladder, Ofer Yossepowitch, Roy Mano
6.25: Urothelial carcinomas of the upper urinary tract, Morgan Roupret, Pierre Colin, Tarek P. Gonheim
6.26: The aetiology, epidemiology, clinical features and investigation of kidney cancer, David Cranston, Mark Sullivan, Nilay Patel
6.27: Genetics and molecular biology of renal cancer, Eamonn Maher, Mariam Jafri
6.28: Pathology of renal cancer and other tumours affecting the kidney, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Rodolfo Montironi, Liang Cheng
6.29: Treatment of localized renal cell cancer, Michael Jewett, Ashraf Almatar
6.3: Ablative technologies for renal cancer, Jeffrey A. Cadeddu, Ephrem Olweny, Stephen Faddegon
6.31: Kidney cancer: Treatment of locally advanced and low volume metastatic disease, Tim O'Brien, Amit Patel
6.32: Treatment of metastatic renal cancer, Tim Eisen, Han Wong
6.33: Testicular cancer, Christian Winter, Peter Albers
6.34: Pathology of testicular tumours, John Goepel
6.35: Testis cancer, Axel Heidenreich
6.36: Penile cancer, Simon Horenblas, Rosa Djajadiningrat
6.37: Adrenocortical cancer, Steve Ball, Sajid Kalathil
6.38: Treatment of adrenal tumours, Saba Balasubramanian, A. Bagul
Section 7
7.1: Infertility: Assessment, Gert R. Dohle
7.2: Surgical treatment of male infertility, Gert R. Dohle
7.3: Sperm retrieval, Oliver Kayes, Akwasi Amoako
7.4: Vasectomy, Yacov Reisman
7.5: The management of fertility in spinal cord injury, Mikkel Fode, Jens Sonksen
7.6: Mechanism of penile erection, Selim Cellek
7.7: Pathophysiology and assessment, Antonino Saccà, Andrea Salonia
7.8: Medical therapy, Hartmut Porst
7.9: Surgical therapy, Carlo Bettocchi, Marco Spilotros
7.1: Ejaculatory disorders, Chris G. McMahon
7.11: Priapism, Asif Muneer, David John Ralph
7.12: The ageing male, Geoff Hackett
7.13: Peyronie s Disease, congenital curvature, and chordee: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, evaluation, and treatment, Laurence A. Levine, William Brant, Stephen M. Larsen
7.14: Male genital injury, Giulio Garaffa, Salvatore Sansalone, David John Ralph
7.15: Scrotal swelling, Ates Kadioglu, Emre Salabas
7.16: Penile reconstruction, Giulio Garaffa, David John Ralph
7.17: Penile augmentation, Salvatore Sansalone, Giulio Garaffa, Ian Eardley, David John Ralph
Section 8
8.1: Prenatal diagnosis and perinatal urology, David F.M. Thomas
8.2: Urinary tract infection in children, David F.M. Thomas
8.3: Vesico ureteric reflux, David F.M. Thomas
8.4: Disorders of the kidney and upper urinary tract in children, Kim Hutton
8.5: Disorders of the urethra, Kim Hutton, Ashok Daya Ram
8.6: Neuropathic bladder and anorectal anomalies, Henrik Steinbrecher
8.7: Urinary incontinence and bladder dysfunction, Henrik Steinbrecher
8.8: Abnormalities of the bladder, Peter Cuckow
8.9: Hypospadias, Peter Cuckow
8.1: Disorders of the prepuce, Kim Hutton, Ahmed A. Darwish
8.11: Undescended testis and inguino-scrotal conditions in children, David F.M. Thomas
8.12: Disorders of sex development, David F.M. Thomas
8.13: Urological malignancies in children, Roly Squire
Section 9
9.1: Renal function, Chris A. O'Callaghan
9.2: Acute kidney injury, Edward Sharples, Wim van Biesen
9.3: Chronic kidney disease and dialysis, Richard J. Haynes, James A. Gilbert
9.4: Obstructive uropathy, Nilay Patel, John M. Henderson
9.5: Kidney transplantation, Jeff A. Lafranca, Dennis A. Hesselink, Frank J.M.F. Dor
Section 10
10.1: Ionising radiation and radiation protection, Jeannette Kathrin Kraft, Peter Howells,
10.2: Ultrasound, Simon Freeman, Toby Wells
10.3: CT, Eugene Teoh, Michael Weston
10.4: Magnetic resonance imaging in urology, Uday Patel, Raj Das, Susan Heenan
10.5: Interventional radiology, Steven Kennish
10.6: Radioisotopes in urology, Sobhan Vinjamuri

Freddie Hamdy, Nuffield Professor of Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, and Ian Eardley, Consultant in Urology, St James University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Professor Freddie Hamdy joined Oxford in October 2008. Professor Hamdy is Head of the Nuffield Department of Surgery, Nuffield Professor of Surgery, Professor of Urology and Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals as well as Fellow of Balliol College. He has spent the past 10 years as founding Chair of Urology and was Director of the Division of Clinical Sciences, then Head of Oncology at the University of Sheffield. Professor Hamdy has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and raised to date over £40m in peer-reviewed grants. He is a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, British Medical Association, European Association of Urology, American Urological Association, Association of Academic European Urologists and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie (German Urological Society).

Mr Ian Eardley trained in Urology in London, Cambridge and Norwich and has been a Consultant in Urology at St James University Hospital, Leeds since 1993. Mr Eardley has written or co-authored seven urological textbooks and published over 200 chapters and scientific papers. He was Treasurer, then President of the European Society for Sexual Medicine, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. His research interests relate to sexual dysfunction, penile cancer and urinary tract infection. He was the Director of the Office of Education for the British Association of Urologists between 2002 and 2006, Chairman of the Specialty Advisory Committee in Urology between 2007 and 2009 and Surgical Director of the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme between 2009 and 2011. Mr Eardley is the current Chairman of the Joint Committee for Surgical Training.