Advances in Diagnostic Urology

ISBN-13: 9783642953965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 344 str.

C. C. Schulman

Opis

Aeeuraey in preoperative diagnosis has always been the basis of sueeess in urology. In the past deeade, major advanees have been made in diagnostie imaging of the kidney and genitourinary traet. Of the new reliable teehniques available, eeho- graphy, radioisotope studies and eomputerized tomographie seanning are of the greatest importanee in the investigation of renal and urinary traet diseases. These new methods of investigation have led to a radical change in the attitude and prae- tieal approach when evaluating a patient presenting with a urologie disorder. The teeh- niques each yield information of a different type and in eonjunetion with classie ra- diology must be used safely and with a logical sequenee in the investigation of a diag- nostie problem. They have greatly inereased the available evidenee on whieh diag- nosis is based and their use should diminish the number of false diagnoses and ul- timately improve treatment. The applieations ofthese reeently developed diagnostie methods in urology are reviewed in this book, based on the main eontributions given by a wide range of experts in their field during the last Congress of the European Assoeiation ofUrology, held in Athens in 1980. Intravenous urography, the first and major step in urologie diagnosis, developed more than half a eentury ago, ean still be improved, as shown by the routine use of early nephrotomography with rapid injeetion.

Spis treści

General Radiology.- Intravenous Nephrourography by Systematic Very Rapid Injection.- Contribution of Phlebography to the Diagnosis of Nonfunctioning Kidneys.- Spermatic Phlebography in Cryptorchidism.- Varicocele Evaluation.- Scrotal Thermography in Subfertile Males.- The Doppler Investigation of Varicocele.- The Anatomy of Varicocele: The Role of Venography.- Spermatic Phlebography: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Method.- A New Classification of Left-Sided Varicoceles Based on Venography.- Transfemoral Phlebography for Clarification of Persistent or Recurrent Varicocele.- Evaluation of Male Impotence.- Phalloygraphy: A New Technique of Nocturnal Tumescence Monitoring in Male Impotence.- Angiography in Male Impotence.- Peroperative Renal Stone Localization.- Peroperative Contact Radiography in Kidney Stone Surgery.- Radiographic Search for Renal Calculi During Nephrolithotomy by the Renodor Technique.- Bidimensional Radioscopy: A Rapid Method for Peroperative Localization of Residual Calculi.- Three-dimensional Radiography of the Kidney.- Three-dimensional Intra-operative Stone Localization.- Pyeloscopy with Flexible Instruments.- Lymph Node Evaluation.- Lymph Node Evaluation by Combined Methods of Investigation.- Transabdominal Fine Needle Biopsy of Lymph Nodes for UrologiC Cancer Staging.- Lymphography, Computed Tomography, and Sonography: A Comparison in Evaluations of the Metastatic Spread in Malignant Tumors of the Urogenital Tract.- Ultrasounds.- The Value of Echotomography in Diagnostic Urology.- Prenatal Diagnosis of Foetal Urological Abnormalities by Ultrasonography.- Sonographically Guided Percutaneous Puncture of Renal Cysts.- Sonographic Findings in Blunt Renal Trauma.- Evaluation of Lower Urinary Tract Pathology by Ultrasonography.- Transrectal Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Cancer of the Prostate.- Computer Evaluation of Ultrasound Imaging of the Prostate for the Early Detection of Cancer.- Computed Tomography.- Computed Tomography of the Kidney.- The Value of Angioscan with Density Curves in CAT Scan for Renal Tumors.- The Use of Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Renal Abscess.- Computer Tomographic Scanning of Adrenal Tumors.- Computed Tomography for Staging Bladder Tumors.- The Value of Pelvic Computed Tomography in Prostatic Carcinoma.- Nuclear Medicine.- Nuclear Medicine in Diagnostic Urology: General Review.- Differential Renal Function.- Measurement of Separate Renal Function with 197 HgCl2.- The 99mTc-DTPA Functional Study in the Child and the Adult.- Separate Renal Function Evaluation by I 131-Hippuran in Chronic Renal Obstruction.- Separate Renal Function Evaluation by DMSA.- Imaging Procedures.- Catheter-Free Isotope Reflux Studies.- Quantitative Bone Scanning and the Supervision of Bone Metastases in Prostatic Cancer.- Prostatic Lymphoscintigraphy.- Urodynamics.- The Diuresis Renogram in Obstructive Uropathy.- Distinction Between Obstructive Nephropathy and Obstructive Uropathy by Deconvolution Analysis of Radionuclide Transit Times.- Urodynamics.- Urodynamic Investigations in Urological Diagnostics: General Review.- Upper Urinary Tract.- Diuresis Urography and Pelvi-Ureteric Obstruction.- Diagnostic Pressure Flow Studies of the Upper Urinary Tract.- Pressure Flow Diagnosis of Obstruction.- Non-Invasive Techniques in the Quantification of Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction.- Analysis of Peristaltic Urine Transport in the Ureter by 123I-Hippuric Acid.- Lower Urinary Tract.- Urodynamic Investigation of Urinary Incontinence.- Urodynamic Investigations in Neuromuscular Disorders of the Lower Urinary Tract.- Sphincter Electromyography in Female Incontinence.- Transurethral Electromyography of the Striated Sphincter of the Urethra.- A New, Simple Urodynamic Apparatus.- List of Contributors.