Images in Urology Diagnosis and Management
Images in Urology is a unique book that integrates images of urological conditions within their clinical context. Improvements in imaging techniques have meant greater diagnostic power and a dramatic rise in the number and quality of images obta
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Simon Bott • Uday Patel • Bob Djavan Peter Carroll Editors
Images in Urology Diagnosis and Management
Editors Simon Bott, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Urol) F.E.B.U Department of Urology Frimley Park Hospital Camberley, Surrey UK Uday Patel, M.B.Ch.B., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.R Department of Radiology St George’s Hospital London UK
Bob Djavan, M.D., Ph.D Minimally Invasive and Prostate Centre Department of Urology New York University Hospital New York USA Peter Carroll, M.D., M.P.H Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre Department of Urology San Francisco, CA USA
ISBN 978-0-85729-768-6 e-ISBN 978-0-85729-769-3 DOI 10.1007/978-0-85729-769-3 Springer London Dordrecht Heidelberg New York British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2011941275 © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012 Whilst we have made considerable efforts to contact all holders of copyright material contained in this book, we may have failed to locate some of them. Should holders wish to contact the Publisher, we will be happy to come to some arrangement with them. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc., in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Product liability: The publisher can give no guarantee for information about drug dosage and application thereof contained in this book. In every individual case the respective user must check its accuracy by consulting other pharmaceutical literature. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The urological image and its role in the management of patients has evolved dramatically over time; the oldest surviving images are Australian Aboriginal cave paintings dating back to at least 10,000 BC. However, these images demonstrate ritual rather than therapeutic acts, portraying circumcision as an adolescent rite of passage. Further paintings showing ritual circumcision were discovered in the Ankhmahor’s Tomb (Physician’s Tomb) in Saqqara, Egypt, dating from 2,400 BC. One of the earliest surviving medical texts is the Ebers papyrus, a compendium dating from 1,550 BC. This 20 m long papyrus, found between the legs of a Mummy in Luxor and now in the University of Leipzig, describes, for the first time, the diagnosis and treatment of a number of urological conditions including retention, sc
