This book provides a comprehensive guide to performing effective and cutting-edge urologic laparoscopy and is a must have for any urologist looking to create, maintain, or expand a successful practice in minimally invasive urologic surgery.

In Essential Urologic Laparoscopy: The Complete Clinical Guide, Second Edition, editors Sean P. Hedican and Stephen Y. Nakada provide a complete update of their critically acclaimed first edition while adding new material related to Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy, Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection and Laparoscopic Assisted Renal Ablation. The authors offer clear, concise chapters focusing on getting started, laparoscopic instrumentation, and step-by-step procedural adult laparoscopy. Each chapter is organized so that the reader can easily identify key points and pitfalls, providing user-friendly text that describes the essential equipment necessary for performing urologic laparoscopy. Authorative and highly practical, Essential Urologic Laparoscopy: The Complete Clinical Guide, Second Edition provides a comprehensive guide to performing effective and cutting-edge urologic laparoscopy and is a must have for any urologist looking to create, maintain, or expand a successful practice in minimally invasive urologic surgery.

Provides the reader with a quick and manageable reference tool that can be easily consulted prior to performing a specific urologic larparoscopic operation. Chapters give step-by-step descriptions of each operation, and are written by the recognized experts and pioneers in the field. Thoroughly updated second edition, with the addition of extensive descriptions for performing laparoscopic prostatectomy and pyeloplasty not presented in the first edition.

Inhalt
Getting Started in Laparoscopy.- Laparoscopic Instrumentation.- Laparoscopic Access.- Laparoscopic and Robotic Pelvic Lymphadenectomy.- Laparoscopic Renal Cyst Decortication.- Laparoscopic Simple Nephrectomy.- Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy.- Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy: Transperitoneal Approach.- Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy.- Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy.- Laparoscopic Nephroureterectomy.- Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy.- Laparoscopic and Robotic Pyeloplasty.- Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy.- Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Tumors.- Laparoscopic Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion.- Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion with Handport Assistance.- Laparoscopic and Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy.- Complications of Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery.- Laparoscopic Renal Ablation.