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Female Pelvic Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art surgical review of this field and will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians and surgeons. The text reviews the basic indications for treatment and details the many surgical approaches to the management of all pelvic floor disorders. In addition to step-by-step description in text, the volume provides illustrations/photographs of surgical techniques. Integration of surgical videos demonstrating the major repairs described in each section augment the textbook and serve as the ultimate format for the education of clinicians and surgeons.
Female Pelvic Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide provides a concise and comprehensive review of all the surgical approaches to female pelvic surgery and thus it will serve as an extremely useful resource for physicians dealing with and interested in the treatment of pelvic floor disorders.
List of contents
Anatomy of the Female Genitourinary Tract.- Instrumentation for Female Pelvic Surgery.- Surgical Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence.- Sacral Neuromodulation.- Transvaginal Prolapse Repair.- Obliterative Vaginal Procedures.- Open Transabdominal Sacrocolpopexy.- Laparoscopic and Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy.- Transvaginal Urethrolysis for Urethral Obstruction.- Vaginal Fistula Repairs.- Repair of Urethral Diverticula.- Augmentation Cystoplasty.- Urethroplasty for Female Urethral Stricture.- Excision of Vaginal Cysts.- Transvaginal Closure of Bladder Neck.- Surgical Therapy for Fecal Incontinence.- Botulinum Toxin Therapy for Voiding Dysfunction and the Female Pelvic Floor.- Construction of the Neovagina.
About the author
Farzeen Firoozi, MD, FACS
Director, Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
The Smith Institute for Urology
Hofstra North Shore—LIJ School of Medicine
Lake Success, NY
USA.
Summary
Female Pelvic Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art surgical review of this field and will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians and surgeons. The text reviews the basic indications for treatment and details the many surgical approaches to the management of all pelvic floor disorders. In addition to step-by-step description in text, the volume provides illustrations/photographs of surgical techniques. Integration of surgical videos demonstrating the major repairs described in each section augment the textbook and serve as the ultimate format for the education of clinicians and surgeons.
Female Pelvic Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide provides a concise and comprehensive review of all the surgical approaches to female pelvic surgery and thus it will serve as an extremely useful resource for physicians dealing with and interested in the treatment of pelvic floor disorders.
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From the book reviews:
“It provides up-to-date information on female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery based on the knowledge and expertise of an internationally renowned panel. The audience includes practicing urologists, gynecologists, female urology specialists, and urogynecologists. … This is a must for every physician/surgeon interested in pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. It is a well-organized book written by an array of international authors with expertise in the field.” (Jeanne Llenado, Doody’s Book Reviews, January, 2015)
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From the book reviews:
"It provides up-to-date information on female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery based on the knowledge and expertise of an internationally renowned panel. The audience includes practicing urologists, gynecologists, female urology specialists, and urogynecologists. ... This is a must for every physician/surgeon interested in pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. It is a well-organized book written by an array of international authors with expertise in the field." (Jeanne Llenado, Doody's Book Reviews, January, 2015)
