Pediatric Urology Contemporary Strategies from Fetal Life to Adolesc
This encompassing volume gathers contributions by renowned experts in the field of pediatric urology to offer a systematic and complete review of the field. The book opens with a general section covering the basis of renal function from the fetu
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Pediatric Urology Contemporary Strategies from Fetal Life to Adolescence Foreword by Göran Läckgren
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Pediatric Urology
Mario Lima • Gianantonio Manzoni Editors
Pediatric Urology Contemporary Strategies from Fetal Life to Adolescence
Foreword by Göran Läckgren
Editors Mario Lima Pediatric Surgery S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital Bologna Italy
Gianantonio Manzoni Pediatric Urology Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Milano Italy
ISBN 978-88-470-5692-3 ISBN 978-88-470-5693-0 DOI 10.1007/978-88-470-5693-0 Springer Milan Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Foreword
In Europe, Pediatric Urology is a subspecialty to either urology or pediatric surgery, and has developed quickly over the last decades. The need for a separate specialty to handle congenital anomalies and diseases in the urogenital tract in children is a natural consequence of the big differences in physiology, anatomy and disease panorama presentation between children and adults. The development of our specialty has been parallel to the progress in neonatology, antenatal diagnostics and radiology. New imaging techniques, molecula
