DIFFICULT CONDITIONS IN LAPAROSCOPIC UROLOGIC SURGERY. 2ND EDITION

1. Introduction
2. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Access
3. Difficulties in Anesthesia for Urologic Laparoscopy
4. Difficulties in Urologic Laparoscopic Instrumentation
5. Cost-Reductive Measures in Laparoscopy: Tips and Tricks for Developing Countries
6. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Simple Nephrectomy
7. Difficulties in Transperitoneal Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy
8. Difficulties in Retroperitoneal Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy
9. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy
10. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Nephroureterectomy
11. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy
12. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy
13. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Renal Cyst Removal and Giant Hydronephrosis Nephrectomy
14. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Simple Prostatectomy
15. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
16. Difficulties in Robotic Radical Prostatectomy
17. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Surgery for Urinary Stones
18. Difficulties in Robotic-Assisted Nerve-Sparing Radical Prostatectomy
19. Robotic Transplants: Point of Technique
20. Robotic Pyeloplasty in Infants and Toddlers
21. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery in Kidney Transplant Patients and Obese Patients
22. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection
23. Robotic Ureteral and Bladder Reconstruction
24. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy
25. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty
26. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Surgery for Urinary Stones
27. Difficulties in Laparoscopic and Robotic Living Donor Nephrectomy
28. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Ureteral and Bladder Reconstruction
29. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Ureterolysis and Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection
30. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Management of Vesicovaginal Fistula
31. Difficulties in the Laparoscopic Treatment of Female Genital Prolapse
32. Difficulties in Pediatric Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery
33. Difficulties in Single-Port Laparoscopic Procedures
34. Difficulties in Urologic Laparoscopy Complications
35. Difficulties in Laparoscopic Training, Mentoring, and Medico-Legal Issues

This book outlines potential situations faced by those using laparoscopy and provides solutions for difficult conditions. Extensively and thoroughly written by experts in the field, Difficult Conditions in Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery enables the practising surgeon to confront and resolve dilemmas before even entering the operating theatre.
In this book, every urologic procedure is described using a step-by-step sequence of events and the text is supplemented with numerous tips, illustrations, and high definition photographs depicting the main steps of the procedures. With a problem-oriented approach, Difficult Conditions in Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery is a valuable reference source for residents, fellows, and general urologists.

Features
• Written from a problem oriented perspective by experts in the field Utilises real case scenarios
• Contains literature review within each chapter

Authors
• Ahmed Al-Kandari FRCS(C) B.M., B.Ch: Assistant Professor of Urologic Surgery at Kuwait Univeristy, and Consultant in the Urology Unit of Adan Hospital, Kuwait. Inderbir Gill, M.D., M.Ch: Chairman of the Glickman Urological Institute Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. Following residencies in his native India and America, Dr Gill was appointed a fellow at the Cleveland Institute in 1997, specialising in laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery of the adrenal gland, kidney, prostate and bladder. He is already the author and editor of several leading works in this area, including the Textbook of Laparoscopic Urology (Informa Healthcare, 2006) and the DVD-accompanied Atlas of Laparoscopic Urology (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2006), and has done a number of projects with us here at Springer (i.e. Contemporary Interventional Ultrasonography in Urology, 2008 & Tips and Tricks in Laparoscopi Urology, Kumar & Gill 2007).
• Dr Arvind P. Ganpule is currently, Vice- Chairman, Department of Urology and Chief, Division of laparoscopic and robotic surgery at the Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH), Nadiad, India. Dr Arvind Ganpule is a postgraduate guide for urology trainees at MPUH Nadiad, India. He has 115 pubmed indexed publications to his credit in reputed peer reviewed National and International Journals .In addition, he has authored 23 book chapters and edited one book. He was a lead investigator in the largest epidemiological study in India, investigating the natural history of BPH in western India. He has innovated a novel low cost retrieval bag in laparoscopy.(known as the Nadiad bag) He was involved with the team at MPUH, Nadiad India in developing the microperc system with Polydiagnost GmBH. He has one patent filed with Indian patent office. He is on the Editoral board of Indian journal of urology(IJU) and Journal of minimal access surgery(JMAS).He has been on the editorial board of SpringerPLUS since past three months. He was named the” Best national reviewer” for the IJU and the endourology society(Engineering section) in the year 2012 and 2015. Dr Ganpule is a recipient of the prestigious MIUC scholarship of the of Urological society of India. He has also received the F1000 AFM travel Award and grant (For excellent post publication reviews)consecutively for three years(2012,13,14).He was named the AUA-USI(Chakravarty fellowship) scholar for year 2012. Dr Ganpule is conducting a AUA IC course on laproscopic donor nephrectomy for consecutively three years.