Clinical Ultrasound in Benign Proctology: 2-D and 3-D Anal, Vaginal and Transperineal Techniques
Saturday, June 2nd, 1956
2-D and 3-D anal ultrasound are among the most recent and advanced tools available for both the diagnosis and the management of anorectal diseases. They are neither expensive nor harmful for the patients and progressively replaced anal mapping with EMG electrodes for the diagnosis of sphincter’s defects and anismus, which represents nearly 50% of the cases of chronic constipation. Anal US may provide the clinician with useful information for both classification, diagnosis and management of anorectal sepsis, anal incontinence and anorectal-perineal chronic pain. Almost any case presented in this Atlas shows both imaging and clinical pictures, thus allowing both the radiologist and the clinician to assess the reliability of the exam and the outcome of the selected treatment.
This electronic book (PDF format) provides a medical background on the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of prostate cancer, including prostate anatomy, pathophysiology, and epidemiology, the symptoms and staging of prostate cancer, diagnostic methods, prognostic factors, and treatment options. This book is divided into 7 sections: The first section, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, introduces prostate anatomy and physiology, discusses the pathophysiological basis for prostate cancer and its modes of metastasis, and classifies the different types of prostate cancer. The second section, EPIDEMIOLOGY, presents statistics and risk factors associated with prostate cancer. The third section, DIAGNOSIS, discusses the symptoms, diagnostic procedures, and imaging devices used to detect prostate cancer at the earliest stage. This section also explains the staging criteria used to describe disease severity. The fourth section, DIAGNOSTIC CASE STUDIES, presents 4 case studies, each of which discusses the diagnosis of prostate cancer at a different stage. The fifth section, PROGNOSIS, explains the staging, pathological indicators, and molecular and cellular prognostic factors of prostate cancer. The sixth section, TREATMENT, explores the principles, methodology, and benefits of available treatment options. The seventh section, TREATMENT CASE STUDIES, presents 4 case studies, each of which discusses the prognosis and treatment of prostate cancer at a different stage.
Hearing that you have prostate cancer, or even that you may have it, is very scary. But this disease, in many cases, is curable. Even if you have advanced cancer that’s spread beyond the prostate, many treatments help extend your life for years. You need good information to help you with the decisions that lie ahead, and this book provides you with this information.