book reviews

Wednesday, 8 October 2008 - Goldman and Vasavada, with the help of more than 60 contributors have written this textbook dedicated to female pelvic medicine. During the last 10 years many aspects of female urology evolved either...

Wednesday, 6 August 2008 - Imaging has an important role in the evaluation of patients with invasive bladder cancer. It is useful in staging of bladder cancer, despite having some limitations. Computed tomography (CT) is widely...

Wednesday, 25 June 2008 - Andrew Novick and more than 20 well-known experts from the Cleveland Clinic have edited and written the most comprehensive technical book of urology published by a single institution. The authors are...

Wednesday, 18 June 2008 -  John Blandy, Richard Notley and John Reynard published the 5th edition of this book which was first issued 33 years ago. At present, transurethral resection of prostate and bladder tumours...

Wednesday, 11 June 2008 - The book’s concept was first mentioned in Istanbul during the 2006 Annual EAU congress. The editor and the 17 contributors’ goal was to produce an encyclopaedic survey on conservative renal surgery....

Wednesday, 30 January 2008 - Although emergencies represent a fairly limitedpercentage of urologist’s activities, proper management requires good  nowledge of the general and specific principles involved. Hohenfellner and...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007 - Chronic kidney disease (KD) is recognized with growing frequency, but the rate of its progression can be slowed and complications substantially reduced bytimely intervention. This has important...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007 - Hospital doctors involved in patient care require access to updated clinical knowledge. However, managerial and organisational skills are also important since these activities claim one fourth to one...

Tuesday, 13 November 2007 - Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common urological disease in men older than 50. More than one third of patients referred to urologists are affected by symptomatic BPH. Advances in BPH...

Tuesday, 11 September 2007 - Since many years the annual incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has been rising and many practitioners - such as urologists - are faced with clinical problems related to STIs...