Main description:

This up-to-the-minute reference provides comprehensive coverage of the male and female sphincteric mechanisms and their connection to the pelvic floor as well as upper and lower urinary tract function-emphasizing modern approaches to the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormalities including incontinence, hypertonicity, retention, dyssynergia, and the overactive sphincter.
Highlights state-of-the-art clinical, urodynamic, electrophysiological, and imaging techniques such as ultrasonographic explorations of the female urethra!
Detailing lifestyle interventions, physiotherapy, disposable devices, and pharmacological therapeutics, The Urinary Sphincter covers

observations in embryology and infancy that contribute to pathological phenomena in adults

genital prolapse in females

recent developments in the engineering and the mechanisms of action of artificial sphincters, stents, and slings, as well as surgery, injectible techniques, and various sling procedures

neuromodulation and neurostimulation of urethrovesical function

contemporary surgical approaches for coordinated bladder function

reports from the International Continence Society on the methodology, standardization of terminology, and complications related to urethrovesical function and dysfunction

and more!
Furnishing practical algorithms and nearly 3000 useful references, tables, equations, photographs, and drawings, The Urinary Sphincter is an invaluable and authoritative source for urologists, gynecologists, neurologists, physiatrists, physiologists, pharmacologists, physiotherapists, and medical students in these disciplines.

Contents:

Anatomy and physiology; the urinary sphincter as part of an anatomic entity; the urinary sphincter as part of a functional entity; the urinary sphincter as part of the pelvic floor; dysfunctional urinary sphincter; evaluation of the urinarysphincter; clinical evaluation; urodynamic evaluation; imaging; electrophysiological evaluation; treatments; nonsurgical treatments; surgical treatments; synthesis; ICS reports on standardization.