Springer The Kidney: A Comprehensive Guide to Pathologic Diagnosis and Management

Product Description This volume provides a practical, comprehensive overview on benign and malignant disease of the adult kidney. The text addresses the topic of assessment and management of patients with surgical renal disease. Within this scope, it includes hereditary and spontaneous renal neoplasms, as well as non-neoplastic disease that manifests as a clinically relevant mass. The book is organized into chapters focusing on discrete disease entities and incorporating pathology, surgical management, oncologic therapy, radiologic findings, and molecular alterations. This text is designed to address relevant areas of clinical management of renal neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease across multiple specialties and levels of training. Written by experts in the field, The Kidney: A Comprehensive Guide to Pathologic Diagnosis and Management is a valuable resource on the diagnosis and management of patients with not only renal cell carcinoma, but also other renal processes that require surgical intervention. From the Back Cover This volume provides a practical, comprehensive overview on benign and malignant disease of the adult kidney. The text addresses the topic of assessment and management of patients with surgical renal disease. Within this scope, it includes hereditary and spontaneous renal neoplasms, as well as non-neoplastic disease that manifests as a clinically relevant mass.  The book is organized into chapters focusing on discrete disease entities and incorporating pathology, surgical management, oncologic therapy, radiologic findings, and molecular alterations.  This text is designed to address relevant areas of clinical management of renal neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease across multiple specialties and levels of training.  Written by experts in the field, The Kidney: A Comprehensive Guide to Pathologic Diagnosis and Management is a valuable resource on the diagnosis and management of patients with not only renal cell carcinoma, but also other renal processes that require surgical intervention.      About the Author Donna E. Hansel, MD, PhDProfessor of Pathology, Chief, Division of Anatomic Pathology, University of California at San Diego, Department of Pathology, La Jolla, CA, USA Christopher J. Kane MD, FACSProfessor and Chair of Urology, University of California at San Diego, Department of Urology, San Diego, CA , USA Gladell P. Paner, MDAssociate Professor, University of Chicago Medical Center, Department of Pathology and Surgery, Section of Urology, Chicago, IL, USA Sam S. Chang, MD, FACS, MBA Professor and Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Urologic Surgery, Nashville, TN, USA