Oxford Textbook of Urological Surgery

• Section 1


• 1.1: Ased Ali: Pathogenesis of urinary tract infection


• 1.2: Kathy Walton, Sally Ager: Antimicrobial agents


• 1.3: Roger Bayston: Hospital acquired urinary tract infection


• 1.4: Bjorn Wullt, Magnus Grabe: Cystitis/pyelonephritis


• 1.5: Alice Hartley, Toby Page: Renal and retroperitoneal abscess


• 1.6: Christiaan F. Heyns: Tuberculosis and parasitic infestations involving the urogenital system


• 1.7: Florian M.E. Wagenlehner, Adrian Pilatz, Th. Bschleipfer, Thomas Diemer, Wolfgang Weidner: Inflammation: Prostatitis syndrome


• 1.8: Mary Garthwaite: Inflammation: Epididymitis and scrotal abscess


• 1.9: Francesco Greco, Paolo Fornara: Fournier's


• 1.1: Emma J. McCarty, Wallace Dinsmore: Sexually transmitted diseases


• 1.11: Magnus Fall: Painful bladder syndrome/Interstitial cystitis


• Section 2


• 2.1: Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard: Epidemiology of stone disease


• 2.2: Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard: Kidney stones: types and predisposing factorsa


• 2.3: Glenn Preminger, Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Michael Lipkin: Evaluation of stone former


• 2.4: Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard: Prevention of calcium oxalate stone formation


• 2.5: Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin: Prevention of other non-calcium stones


• 2.6: Andreas Neisius, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin: Stone fragmentation techniques: Extracorporal shock wave lithotripsy


• 2.7: Gastón M. Astroza, Glenn Preminger, Michael Lipkin: Intracorporeal techniques of stone fragmentation


• 2.8: Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard: Kidney stones: presentation and diagnosis


• 2.9: Benjamin W. Turney, John Reynard: Watchful waiting for stone disease

Professor Freddie Hamdy joined Oxford in October 2008. Professor Hamdy is Head of the Nuffield Department of Surgery, Nuffield Professor of Surgery, Professor of Urology and Honorary Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals as well as Fellow of Balliol College. He has spent the past 10 years as founding Chair of Urology and was Director of the Division of Clinical Sciences, then Head of Oncology at the University of Sheffield. Professor Hamdy has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, and raised to date over £40m in peer-reviewed grants. He is a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, British Medical Association, European Association of Urology, American Urological Association, Association of Academic European Urologists and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Urologie (German Urological Society).

Mr Ian Eardley trained in Urology in London, Cambridge and Norwich and has been a Consultant in Urology at St James University Hospital, Leeds since 1993. Mr Eardley has written or co-authored seven urological textbooks and published over 200 chapters and scientific papers. He was Treasurer, then President of the European Society for Sexual Medicine, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
His research interests relate to sexual dysfunction, penile cancer and urinary tract infection. He was the Director of the Office of Education for the British Association of Urologists between 2002 and 2006, Chairman of the Specialty Advisory Committee in Urology between 2007 and 2009 and Surgical Director of the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme between 2009 and 2011. Mr Eardley is the current Chairman of the Joint Committee for Surgical Training.

More than 150 worldwide experts have contributed to this work which aims to provide the reader with an exhaustive survey of urology.[...] With [The Oxford Textbook of Urological Surgery] the authors achieved their objective, since they assembled an amount of practical information useful for trainees and certified urologists. Professor Paul Meria, European Urology Today