Urologic Laparoscopy

Minimally invasive methods have become central to modern medicine, largely because they spare patients harm and help them recover their everyday lives. Urology is one of the specialties pushing this shift hardest, as new equipment and refined techniques keep expanding what laparoscopy can do. This volume presents newer procedures that the editors expect to replace current practice, since they cause less tissue damage than the alternatives.

The book covers laparoscopic work from before birth through childhood, and compares different ways of performing adrenal gland removal. It goes on to examine operations for renal cell and transitional cell cancers, nerve-sparing approaches that preserve kidney tissue in renal tumours, and removal of lymph nodes behind the abdominal lining in testicular cancer. Further sections address pyeloplasty, nephropexy, kidney stones, stress urinary incontinence, kidney transplantation and dialysis.

The volume is aimed at specialists in endourology, laparoscopic surgery, paediatric surgery and endocrine surgery who want a detailed reference on these procedures.