Overview

Providing a true integration of pathology with clinical management, this volume presents a practical, comprehensive text on benign and malignant disease of the adult bladder. Integrating pathology, surgical management, oncology and molecular study in a site-specific manner to include the urethra, urinary bladder, ureter and renal pelvis, The Urinary Tract: A Comprehensive Guide to Patient Diagnosis and Management is the first text in adult bladder disease to closely interweave multiple clinical disciplines into each chapter. For the majority of chapters, a pathologist and urologist or urologic oncologist are paired to provide the greatest integration of information for each disease process.

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Author:   Donna E. Hansel ,  Jesse K. McKenney ,  Andrew J. Stephenson ,  Sam S. Chang, M.D.
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2012
Weight:   0.958kg
ISBN:  

9781493946587

ISBN 10:   1493946587
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I: The Urinary Tract.- Chapter 1. Anatomy, Embryology, and Histology.- Part II: Non-neoplastic Diseases of the Bladder.- Chapter 2.  Benign Polypoid and Papillary Lesions.- Chapter 3.  Diverticular Disease.- Chapter 4.  Infection and Inflammatory Disorders.- Part III: Bladder Neoplasia.- Chapter 5.  Bladder Cancer Overview and Staging.- Chapter 6.  Non-muscle-invasive Low- and High-Grade Neoplasia.- Chapter 7. Muscle-invasive Urothelial Carcinoma: Conventional and Variant Subtypes.- Chapter 8.  Micropapillary Carcinoma.- Chapter 9.  Small Cell Urothelial Carcinoma.- Chapter 10.  Squamous Cell Carcinoma.- Chapter 11.  Adenocarcinoma of the Urinary Bladder.- Chapter 12.  Mesenchymal Lesions of the Urinary Bladder.- Part IV: Urethral Disease.- Chapter 13. Non-Neoplastic and Neoplastic Urethral Disease.- Part V: Upper Tract Disease.- Chapter 14.  Non-neoplastic and Neoplastic Ureteral and Renal Pelvis Disease.- Part VI: Chemotherapy and Long-Term Patient Follow-Up.- Chapter 15. Urothelial Carcinoma: Role of Perioperative Systemic Chemotherapy.- Chapter 16. Urine Cytology.- Chapter 17. Pathology-Endoscopy Correlations of Bladder, Urachal, and Urethral Lesions.- Chapter 18.  Molecular Pathogenesis of Bladder Cancer.

Reviews

From the reviews: Editors Hansel, McKenney, Stephenson and Chang and >50 world leaders have written this textbook dedicated to the urinary tract. Their aim was to fill a gap, providing readers with an overview of the current aspects of diagnosis and management of urinary tract diseases. ... This original textbook summarizes the latest information on diseases of the urethra, bladder and upper urinary tract. It displays a practical overview, which will be useful to urologists. (European Urology Today, Vol. 25 (5), October-November, 2013)

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