The Urinary Tract
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Providing a true integration of pathology with clinical management, this volume presents a practical, comprehensive text on benign and malignant disease of the adult bladder. Integrating pathology, surgical management, oncology and molecular study in a site-specific manner to include the urethra, urinary bladder, ureter and renal pelvis, The Urinary Tract: A Comprehensive Guide to Patient Diagnosis and Management is the first text in adult bladder disease to closely interweave multiple clinical disciplines into each chapter. For the majority of chapters, a pathologist and urologist or urologic oncologist are paired to provide the greatest integration of information for each disease process.
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"Editors Hansel, McKenney, Stephenson and Chang and >50 world leaders have written this textbook dedicated to the urinary tract. Their aim was to fill a gap, providing readers with an overview of the current aspects of diagnosis and management of urinary tract diseases. . This original textbook summarizes the latest information on diseases of the urethra, bladder and upper urinary tract. It displays a practical overview, which will be useful to urologists." (European Urology Today, Vol. 25 (5), October-November, 2013)
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Part I: The Urinary Tract.- Chapter 1. Anatomy, Embryology, and Histology.- Part II: Non-neoplastic Diseases of the Bladder.- Chapter 2. Benign Polypoid and Papillary Lesions.- Chapter 3. Diverticular Disease.- Chapter 4. Infection and Inflammatory Disorders.- Part III: Bladder Neoplasia.- Chapter 5. Bladder Cancer Overview and Staging.- Chapter 6. Non-muscle-invasive Low- and High-Grade Neoplasia.- Chapter 7. Muscle-invasive Urothelial Carcinoma: Conventional and Variant Subtypes.- Chapter 8. Micropapillary Carcinoma.- Chapter 9. Small Cell Urothelial Carcinoma.- Chapter 10. Squamous Cell Carcinoma.- Chapter 11. Adenocarcinoma of the Urinary Bladder.- Chapter 12. Mesenchymal Lesions of the Urinary Bladder.- Part IV: Urethral Disease.- Chapter 13. Non-Neoplastic and Neoplastic Urethral Disease.- Part V: Upper Tract Disease.- Chapter 14. Non-neoplastic and Neoplastic Ureteral and Renal Pelvis Disease.- Part VI: Chemotherapy and Long-Term Patient Follow-Up.- Chapter 15. Urothelial Carcinoma: Role of Perioperative Systemic Chemotherapy.- Chapter 16. Urine Cytology.- Chapter 17. Pathology-Endoscopy Correlations of Bladder, Urachal, and Urethral Lesions.- Chapter 18. Molecular Pathogenesis of Bladder Cancer.