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Informationen zum Autor Dr.K.Sasidharan, the President of the Urological Society of India, is currently the Professor and Chairman of the Division of Urology at Kasturba Medical College Manipal. Prior to his present assignment he was for varying periods, Associate Professor of Urology at Calicut Medical College, Professor and Head of the Department of Urology at Trivandrum Medical College, and Professor and Head of the Department of Urology and Dean of Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati. He had his early college education in St.Xavier’s College Calcutta and Jamiamilia, New Delhi. He obtained MBBS, MS (General Surgery) and MCh (Urology) from Calcutta, Delhi and Madras Universities respectively. Dr.Sasidharan has been an active member of the Urological Society of India. He was elected to the Council of the Society twice. He was the Editor of the Indian Journal of Urology, the official organ of the Society for eight years. He was conferred many of the Society’s coveted honours such as Teacher Fellowship, Pinamaneni Oratorship and the Society’s President’s Gold Medal for the year 2000 for his contribution to Indian Urology. He is a member of Boards of Study and Examination for MCh (Urology), Academic Councils and Thesis Adjudicator of many Indian Universities as well as a member of the National Board of Examination of India in Urology. He is an examiner of the Malaysian and Singapore Urological Board Exit examinations. He has delivered several guest lectures and orations in India including the prestigious Dr.H.S.Bhat Oration, Dr.M.N. Sircar Oration , Dr.E.N.B. Sharma Oration, Dr.Subramanian Oration , Abdul Majeed Endowment Oration and G.S. Ramaiah Oration. Professor K.Sasidharan has played a strategic role in Asian Urological activities. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Urological Association of Asia and has delivered Plenary Lectures , Master Lectures and conducted Operative Work-shops Klappentext In August 2005! Dr Michael Blute at the Mayo Clinic reported that open nephron-sparing surgery remains the 'gold standard' for open surgery for kidney tumors and should remain the first choice for many patients. This challenges the idea that less-invasive therapies are always more desirable than open surgery. While laparoscopic nephron-sparing surgery is feasible for small! easily accessible kidney tumors! for large tumors this is not always the case. Drs Sasidharan and Soloway have created a superb text covering all aspects of nephron-sparing surgery that should provide excellent guidance for all those who are just beginning to perform NSS or act as an aide-memoire for those familiar with NSS. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the areas related to actual performance of nephron-sparing surgery. It analyses all forms of surgery, open or laparoscopic, as well as provides a backdrop on renal cell carcinoma and the complications and outcomes that both surgeon and patient will face following surgery....
