Urinary Stone Disease: The Practical Guide to Medical and Surgical Management

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Publisher: Humana
Language: English
ISBN: [Only registered and activated users can see links المعذرة ... يمكن للأعضاء فقط أن يشاهدوا الروابط. ]
Paperback: 696 pages
Data: Jun 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Urinary Stone Diseases: The Practical Guide to Medical and Surgical Management is a compendium of contemporary views on the development, treatment, and prevention of urinary stone disease. Emphasis is placed on utilizing current research to highlight areas of potential discovery and inspire novel approaches to easing the burden of urinary stone disease. In Section I - Background, highly respected researchers present urinary stone disease nomenclature, history of instrumentation, genetics, stone formation theories, and stone structure and compositional analyses. Section II, Metabolism, gives specific attention to calcium and oxalate, stone inhibitors, crystallization modulators, hormonal influence, associated systemic disease, and the effects of diet. Section III, Presentation, presents issues of particular importance to the practicing physician, including imaging of urinary stone disease, physician safety, treatment of acute renal colic, and anatomical considerations in the urinary stone patients. Section IV, Treatment, outlines disease management options and considerations, including ureteral stents, anesthetic considerations, potential complications of urinary stone surgery, shock wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy, and laparoscopic approaches. [Only registered and activated users can see links المعذرة ... يمكن للأعضاء فقط أن يشاهدوا الروابط. ]