Overview
- Provides up-to-date information on all aspects of pelvic floor disorders
- Describes in depth the current assessment and management of each disorder
- Fully explains the role of imaging techniques
- Provides helpful treatment algorithms
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Table of contents (90 chapters)
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State of the Art Pelvic Floor Anatomy
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Pelvic Floor Imaging
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Obstetric Pelvic Floor and Anal Sphincter Trauma
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andrzej Paweł Wieczorek is a Professor of Radiology and Head of the Department of Pediatric Radiology at the Medical University of Lublin, Poland. Besides pediatric radiology, one of his main scientific focus is uroradiology and pelvic floor ultrasound, as well as ultrasound diagnostics of male and female urinary incontinence in adults and children, pelvic organ prolapse in women, male and female infertility, diagnostics of prostate diseases. He authored several articles published in peer-review journals covering these topics. He is actively teaching pelvic floor ultrasound on numerous Polish and international congresses and workshops propagating the idea among various specialties in medicine. He is a lecturer on congresses, workshops and courses organized by Polish Society of Ultrasound (PTU), Polish Medical Society of Radiology (PLTR), International Urogynecological Association (IUGA), European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP), European Society of Uroradiology (ESUR). In the past he was playing a role of Vice-President of the Polish Society of Ultrasound (PTU) for 8 years. He is also author of more than 170 chapters and articles published on peer-review journals as well as an author of one book. He is an organizer of annual course about most recent developments in ultrasound since 17 years. He was part of the faculty of more than 300 international Congresses, Workshops and Courses.
Abdul H Sultan is a Consultant Obstetrician and UroGynecologist at Croydon University Hospital and honorary Reader at St George's University of London. He completed his basic medical training (MB.ChB) in South Africa prior to moving to the United Kingdom in 1984 and obtained the MRCOG degree in 1990 (FRCOG 2003). He subsequently he took up a research post under the supervision of Prof Chris Hudson at St Bartholomews and Homerton Hospitals and Professors Clive Bartram and Mike Kamm at St Mark's Hospital. The research involved studying the effects of childbirth on the pelvic floor and anal sphincters. This led to a landmark paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine and to a Doctorate (MD). His pioneering work highlighted the deficiencies in training of doctors and midwives in detecting and repairing injuries to the perineum and anal sphincter after childbirth. His past academic positions include: executive member of the British Society of Urogynaecology, International Consultation on Incontinence, The Scientific Advisory Committee (RCOG), and the scientific committee of The International Urogynecological Association. He is the co-director of a tertiary referral urogynecology Unit at Croydon University Hospital with subspecialty training and has an active research programme. He has over 200 publications and has produced thefirst comprehensive textbook, ‘Perineal and Anal Sphincter Trauma’. He is the co-director of the popular international Perineal Trauma and Pelvic Floor Ultrasound courses conducted in Croydon. He was awarded the prestigious overall “UK Hospital Doctor of the Year” award and is the past President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pelvic Floor Disorders
Book Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Textbook
Editors: Giulio A. Santoro, Andrzej P. Wieczorek, Abdul H. Sultan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40862-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40861-9Published: 11 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40864-0Published: 12 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40862-6Published: 10 December 2020
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXV, 1203
Number of Illustrations: 238 b/w illustrations, 587 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urology, Colorectal Surgery, Gynecology, Imaging / Radiology