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Urologic Prostheses: The Complete Practical Guide to Devices, Their Implantation, and Patient Followup |
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From Book News, Inc. Describes artificial prosthetic devices implanted during urologic surgery to correct incontinence and erectile dysfunction. The authors provide guidelines for patient evaluation prior to surgery and postoperative treatment of the patient. The 18 contributions cover tissue engineering, injectable agents, stents, penile prostheses, and artificial urinary sphincters. Topics include teflon injection for incontinence after radical prostatectomy, urethral stents f... >> |
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The Kidney: From Normal Development to Congenital Disease |
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From the New England Journal of Medicine, November 27, 2003 Since its publication in 1987, Lauri Saxen's superb monograph Organogenesis of the Kidney (Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press) has been the benchmark by which other books in the field have been judged. The past 15 years have witnessed an explosion in our knowledge of how the kidney develops, fueled to no small extent, in particular recently, by advances in comparative genomics and in numerous techniques f... >> |
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Calcium Oxalate in Biological Systems |
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Book Description Written by leaders in their fields, Calcium Oxalate in Biological Systems comprehensively discusses current information about the importance of this compound in animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Both in vivo and in vitro methods of crystallization as well as crystallization systems are discussed. Researchers who pioneered the field contribute their invaluable knowledge for the first time about oxalate bacteria and their importance. This is an essential ref... >> |
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Urology
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