About the Book
This book provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of the evolving techniques and current status of interventional urology. The book is organized by organ system with subtopics covering imaging technologies, interventional techniques, and clinical outcomes for the vast variety of interventional urologic procedures. It represents the first single text covering these topics and will help guide patient management and stimulate investigative efforts.
Written by experts in the field, Interventional Urology provides a richly illustrated, image-guided, state-of-the art review of this new field, that will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians, interventional urologists, interventional radiologists, researchers, and residents with an interest in interventional urology.
Table of Contents:
History of Invasive Radiology.- Imaging the Urinary Tract: Fundamentals of Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Image Fusion Principles: Theory.- Prostate Imaging.- Imaging of Benign Prostatic Conditions.- Transrectal Ultrasound of the Prostate.- Fusion Guided Prostate Biopsy.- Template Mapping Biopsies: An Overview of Technique and Results.- Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) and Elastographic imaging.- High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Prostate Cancer.- Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy.- IRE for Prostate Cancer.- Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer.- Radiation Therapy: Brachytherapy.- Selective Arterial Prostatic Embolization (SAPE) - BPH Embolization.- Treatments for Benign Conditions of the Prostate Gland.- Kidney Imaging.- Renal Mass Biopsy.- Urinary Diversion and Drainage.- Renal Ablations.- Renal Angiography and Embolization.- Nutcracker Syndrome.- Renal Artery Stenosis.- Hemorrhagic Cystitis.- Endovascular Management of Priapism and Erectile Dysfunction.- Adrenal Imaging.- Adrenal Interventions.- Varicocele and Pelvic Congestion Syndrome.- Retroperitoneal Biopsy: Indications and Imaging Approach.
About the Author :
Ardeshir R. Rastinehad, D.O., ACOS
Director of Focal Therapy and Interventional Urologic Oncology, Associate Professor of Radiology and Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
David Siegel, MD, FSIR
Vice Chairman, Associate Professor of Radiology, Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Division of Vascular & Interventional Radiology, New Hyde Park, NY, USA
Peter A. Pinto, MD
Urologic Oncology Fellowship Director, Head of Prostate Cancer Section, National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute, Urologic Oncology Branch, Bethesda, MD, USA
Bradford J. Wood, MD
Director Center for Interventional Oncology, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center & National Cancer Institute, Chief Interventional Radiology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Review :
“Editors A.R. Rastinehad, D.N. Siegel, P.A. Pinto and B.J. Wood edited this outstanding textbook with contributions from more than 70 worldwide experts and collated updated information to describe current and forthcoming interventional techniques. … This text book is well-illustrated and represents an excellent tool for all urologists who are looking for in-depth information on this essential topic.” (European Urology Today, Vol. 28 (4), August-September, 2016)
“This book is a concise multi-author publication describing the wide range of techniques and equipment used in diagnostic and interventional urology. … In summary, this is a concise, well-referenced and reasonably priced volume useful on a personal basis to specialist trainees, or in a departmental library.” (Dr. Kevin Gill, RAD Magazine, July, 2016)
“Authors representing multiple fields of medicine provide an exhaustive review of the techniques that they have mastered and of the available literature on interventional urology, a relatively new field. … The intended audience is students, residents, fellows, and attending physicians who have an interest in or are practicing in the fields … . This is an excellent book describing a relatively fledgling field.” (Costas D. Lallas, Doody's Book Reviews, February, 2016)
