Controversies and Innovations in Urological Surgery
[Book]
edited by J. Clive Gingell, Paul H. Abrams.
London
Springer London
1988
(xvi, 512 pages 262 illustrations)
Clinical practice in urology.
Section I: Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy --;1 Development, Indications and Clinical Experience --;Section II: Endoscopic Innovations --;2 Percutaneous Stone Removal Techniques --;3 Ureteroscopy --;4 Flexible Cystoscopy --;5 Endoscopic Treatment of Vesicoureteric Reflux --;Section III: Ureter --;6 Transuretero-ureterostomy --;7 Intestinal Interposition --;8 Boari Flap --;9 The Turner-Warwick Bladder-Elongation Psoas-Hitch Procedure for Substitution Ureteroplasty --;10 Double-J Stents --;11 Renal Autotransplantation --;12 Omento-ureteroplasty and Omento-skin-patch Substitution Ureteroplasty --;Section IV: Surgical Management of Stress Incontinence --;13 Periurethral Teflon Injections --;14 Stamey Endoscopic Bladder Neck Suspension --;15 Colposuspension and Slings --;16 Levatorpexy --;Transperitoneal Levator Muscle Repair --;17 Turner-Warwick Vagino-Obturator Shelf Urethral Repositioning Procedure --;Section V: The Neuropathic Bladder --;and Patient Selection for Surgery --;18 Which Cystoplasty? --;19 Bladder Transection --;20 The AS 800 Artificial Urinary Sphincter: Surgical Technique and Troubleshooting --;21 Nerve-stimulating Implants for Bladder Control in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury or Disease --;Section VI: Continence After Cystectomy --;22 Cystectomy and Substitution Cystoplasty with Particular Reference to Bladder Cancer --;23 The Continent Ileal Reservoir (Kock Pouch) in Urinary Diversion --;24 The Mainz Pouch for Continent Urinary Diversion, Bladder Substitution and Augmentation --;25 Bladder Augmentation, Undiversion and Continent Urinary Diversion in Children Using the Mainz Pouch Technique --;Section VII: Urethral Strictures and Fistulae --;26 The Omental Repair of Complex Urinary Fistulae --;27 Transpubic Urethroplasty --;28 Meshgraft Urethroplasty --;29 The Island Patch --;Section VIII: Male Genitalia --;Infertility and Impotence --;30 Peyroniel's Disease --;31 Penile Prostheses --;32 Vaso-vasostomy and Epididymo-vasostomy --;33 Transsexualism in the Male: Male to Female Gender Reassignment --;34 Penile Reconstruction in Exstrophy and Epispadias --;35 Treatment of Erectile Impotence by Intracavernosal Injection of Drugs that Relax Smooth Muscle --;36 Bladder Neck Incision vs. Resection for Bladder Outflow Obstruction --;37 New or Improved Treatments for Failure of Ejaculation --;38 Reconstruction of Bladder Neck for Retrograde Ejaculation --;Section IX: Paediatrics --;39 Antenatal Diagnosis of Urological Abnormalities --;40 Hypospadias: the MAGPI Operation and Fistula Repair --;41 Reimplantation --;Which Child? --;42 Reimplantation --;Which Operation? --;43 Surgery for Virilising Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia --;44 The Reflux-preventing Reimplantation of Large Ureters Without 'Reduction' Tailoring --;45 Functional Reconstruction of the Exstrophied Bladder.
The purist might wish to have these opinions resolved by a well-planned clinical trial, but experience of clinical trials shows that they do not always produce results that are easily translated into a positive change in clinical practice.