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Book SynopsisA Clinical Guide to Urologic Emergencies A Clinical Guide to Urologic EmergenciesAn ageing population and a predicted shortfall in the number of urologists means that, increasingly, the management of complex urological problems will fall to hospital emergency departments and the surgeries of primary care physicians. With many doctors and medical students now having less exposure to urology, there is a real and urgent need for accessible and practical guidance in managing urologic emergencies. A Clinical Guide to Urologic Emergencies offers practical guidance to the best practices in diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with urgent urological conditions. Designed to be an extremely useful tool to consult in the clinical setting, it will be a vital source of information and guidance for all clinicians, irrespective of their level of urologic knowledge. Edited by an outstanding international editor team, this book is particularly aimed at physicians, advanced practice provi
Table of ContentsContributors
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
