Main description:

Pediatric Urology has rapidly developed as a separate subspecialty in the last decade. During this time, significant advances in technology and instrumentation has meant that increasingly more procedures can be performed by the minimally invasive route. However, access to and availability of adequate training facilities and resources continues to hinder surgeons in achieving experience and expertise in the minimally invasive techniques in paediatric urology. Pediatric Endourology Techniques 2nd edition is a fully illustrated text with an accompanying web application which addresses these issues.

The aim of this 2nd edition is to enable surgeons to carry out commonly performed minimally invasive pediatric urological procedures. This book has been organised systematically to enable quick reference to the topic of interest. It encompasses not only the majority of commonly performed pediatric endourological procedures in a standardised format but also newer techniques and procedures that have developed since publication of the first edition. A list of specific relevant reading material is given at the end of each chapter.

Pediatric Endourology Techniques 2nd Edition is a valuable tool for pediatric urologists as well as pediatric surgeons, general surgeons, adult urologists and those with an interest in minimally invasive surgery.

Contents:

1. Laparoscopy in Children: Basic Principles.- 2. Ergonomics of Laparoscopy.- 3. Basic Principles of Robotic Surgery.- 4. Physiology of Minimally Invasive Surgery versus Open Surgery.- 5. Learning Curves, Costs and Practical Considerations.- 6. Laparoscopic Nephrectomy and Heminephrectomy.- 7. Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty.- 8. Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty.- 9. Transposition of Lower Pole Vessels: 'The Vascular Hitch'.- 10. Minimally Invasive Ureteroureterostomy.- 11. Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy.- 12. Operative Pneumovesicoscopy.- 13. Laparoscopic Extravesical Reimplantation.- 14. Bladder Diverticulectomy.- 15. Excision of Prostatic Utricle.- 16. Laparoscopic-assisted Bladder Reconstruction.- 17. Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Ileocystoplaty: Our Technique.- 18. Impalpable Testis.- 19. Laparoscopic Varicocelectomy.- 20. Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) and Laparoscopy.- 21. General Principles of Cystourethroscopy.- 22. Endoscopic Injection Techniques for Vesicoureteral Reflux.- 23. Bladder Outlet Injection for Urinary Incontinence.- 24. Injection Techniques for Bladder and Sphincter.- 25. Posterior Urethral Valves.- 26. Endoscopic Management of Ureteroceles and Syringoceles.- 27. Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy: Principles of FragmentationTechniques.- 28. Pediatric Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.- 29. Ureteroscopy for Urinary Calculi.- 30. Minimally Invasive Techniques to Approach Complications of Enterocystoplasty and Continent Catheterizable Channels.- 31. Minimally Invasive Uro-Oncology.- 32. Preparing the Child for Minimally Invasive Surgery and What Parents and Children Truly Remember.