Oxford Handbook of Urology

• 1: General principles of management of patients


• 2: Significance and preliminary investigation of urological symptoms and signs


• 3: Urological investigations


• 4: Bladder outlet obstruction


• 5: Urinary incontinence and female urology


• 6: Infections and inflammatory conditions


• 7: Urological neoplasia


• 8: Miscellaneous urological diseases of the kidney


• 9: Stone disease


• 10: Upper tract obstruction, loin pain, hydronephrosis


• 11: Trauma to the urinary tract and other urological emergencies


• 12: Infertility


• 13: Sexual health


• 14: Neuropathic bladder


• 15: Urological problems in pregnancy


• 16: Paediatric urology


• 17: Urological surgery and equipment


• 18: Basic science and renal transplant


• 19: Urological eponyms

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