Oxford Handbook of Urology

John Reynard is a consultant urological surgeon based in Oxford. He also provides a specialist neurourological service for patients with spinal cord injury at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He has published widely in the field of neurourology. He teaches medical students from the University of Oxford Clinical Medical on a variety of topics and has written several books on urological subjects for both medical students and trainee surgeons.Suzanne Biers graduated from St. George's Hospital in London with a distinction in surgery. She trained in Cambridge, Oxford, and Wessex, completing a postgraduate research degree in functional bladder problems at the Oxford University Department of Pharmacology, and achieved the John Blandy Prize for her work. After completing a female urology fellowship in Leicester, she became a consultant Urological Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, sub-specialising in female and male lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and reconstruction. She is lead for the Urology Masters Degree in Cambridge, and director of the Cambridge Emergency Urology Course, Emergency Surgical Skills Workshops, and Reconstructive Techniques in Urology Course. Suzanne remains active in teaching, publication and research.Mr Simon F Brewster Bsc MD FRCS (Urol.) is Consultant Urological Surgeon and Clinical Director at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Oxford University. His main clinical and research interest is prostate cancer, with over 50 journal publications and contributions in 3 textbooks. He is former Secretary of the British Prostate Group and Board member of the European Society of Oncological Urologists. Simon enjoys teaching students and junior doctors, and is a MB Finals examiner.Naomi Neal graduated from the University of Nottingham Medical School and completed her basic surgical training in Leeds. She then took up the first national Academic Clinical Fellow post in Urology and completed a PhD in prostate cancer in Cambridge with Professor David Neal. Naomi continued post-doctoral research in bladder cancer with Professor Freddie Hamdy and completed her specialist registrar training in the Oxford Deanery, developing her surgical skills in complex stone surgery.Naomi holds a postgraduate certificate in medical education and has a strong interest in delivering teaching to undergraduates, including as a surgical tutor with the University of Oxford, and junior doctors.

You have to hand it to Oxford University Press, they continue to relentlessly churn out superb books in their outstanding Oxford Medical Handbooks series and this book is no exception. Like many of its siblings in this series, it is more than just a simple handbook. This is a very good textbook of urology ideal for both trainees and generalists within the speciality as well as primary care personnel.

• 1: General principles of management of patients2: Significance and preliminary investigation of urological symptoms and signs3: Urological investigations4: Bladder outlet obstruction5: Urinary incontinence and female urology6: Infections and inflammatory conditions7: Urological neoplasia8: Miscellaneous urological diseases of the kidney9: Stone disease10: Upper tract obstruction, loin pain, hydronephrosis11: Trauma to the urinary tract and other urological emergencies12: Infertility13: Sexual health14: Neuropathic bladder15: Urological problems in pregnancy16: Paediatric urology17: Urological surgery and equipment18: Basic science and renal transplant19: Urological eponyms