Prostatic disease consumes a major portion of health-care resources in most countries today. The aging of the population in western countries, coupled with rapid advances in technology, has caused a tremendous increase both in the number of patients seeking therapy as well as in available options for treatment. In addition, the current media focus on the subject has thrust it to the top of the medical and health economics agenda. An Atlas of Prostatic Diseases, Second Edition aims to bring these highly topical issues into somewhat sharper focus, while providing all of this new information in a concise, easily understood format. This is an updated and expanded new edition of Dr. Roger S. Kirby's beautifully illustrated, internationally acclaimed atlas/text on the prostate and prostatic disease, featuring a key section on diagnosis. With new references and more illustrations as well as a comprehensive index, this second edition contains a large number of superb color photographs with accompanying text that explain the anatomy and embryology of the prostate, innervation and ejaculatory function, and the underlying mechanisms and causes of abnormal prostate growth. The atlas also covers prostatic neoplasia and inflammatory processes, pathology of the prostate, bladder outlet obstruction, benign prostatic hypertrophy, prostate cancer and prostatitis, and the diagnosis of prostatic disorders. In keeping with the book's high standing among experts in this field, the foreword to this new edition is by Dr. Perinchery Narayan of the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Although not always life-threatening, prostatic diseases often reduce the quality of life for the sufferer and impair their daily activities. These diseases are now acknowledged as an important determinant of men's general health. Completely revised and updated, the third edition of Prof. Kirby's highly acclaimed An Atlas of Prostatic Diseases focuses on new therapies and management techniques for men suffering from prostatic diseases.

This is a set of colour slides, with accompanying text and captions, on the prostate and prostatic disease, and featuring important coverage of methods of diagnosis. With the use of photomicrographs and diagrams, the slides illustrate and explain the anatomy and embryology of the prostate.

Although not always life-threatening, prostatic diseases often reduce the quality of life for the sufferer and impair their daily activities. These diseases are now acknowledged as an important determinant of men's general health. Completely revised and updated, the third edition of Dr. Kirby's highly acclaimed An Atlas of Prostatic Diseases focuses on new therapies and management techniques for men suffering from prostatic diseases.

Compiled by a world-renowned clinician, lecturer, and author of books and atlases on prostate disease and erectile dysfunction, this CD-ROM is based upon Dr. Roger S. Kirby's widely acclaimed 'An Atlas of Prostatic Diseases' first published in 1997 and published in Second Edition in 1999 (ISBN 1-85070-096-6). Users can search and download full-screen clinical and diagrammatic images that comprehensively illustrate the etiology, diagnosis, and management of benign and malignant prostate disease. Dr. Kirby's expert and detailed captions describe and explain each the more than 100 carefully selected images in sections covering anatomy and embryology, innervation of the prostate, ejaculatory function, molecular mechanisms underlying prostate growth, adrenoceptor signal transduction, causes of abnormal prostate growth, local growth potential vs. metastatic capacity, stepwise induction of prostatic neoplasia, inflammatory processes and the prostate, pathology of the prostate, bladder outlet obstruction, progressivedevelopment of benign prostatic hypertrophy, localized progression of prostate cancer, metastatic spread of prostate cancer, acute and chronic prostatitis, diagnosis of prostatic disorders, and future perspectives.Offering users the most convenient and productive way of selecting and using these images, the CD-ROM includes keyword search, contents list thumbnail images, larger images with explanatory captions and full-screen images, all downloadable without restriction in electronic and printed format. System requirements: Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT Pack 3.5.1 or later or Macintosh OS 7.1 or later.

generated a plethora of well-controlled randomized trials to This second edition of the Atlas of the Prostate summarizes the current evaluation and treatment of prostatic diseases. Diseases of investigate nearly every facet of management. The individuals who conducted many of these clinical trials, which so precisely the prostate invariably affect men as they age into their sixth decade of life and beyond, and physicians who provide care for inform us as to the efficacy of these treatments, are in many older men invariably devote a greater portion of their clinical instances authors in this Atlas. attention to the prostate. This Atlas conveys important information Prostate cancer management has likewise been an area of inno to practicing clinicians using figures, images, tables, and algo vation and change in practice patterns. The emergence of rithms in a most artful rendition. The contributors are practicing brachytherapy with seed implantation of the prostate, new strate clinicians, and they have produced a clear and concise review of gies for androgen manipulation of advanced prostatic cancer, and prostatic diseases. The format emphasizes figures and tables over further attempts to identify effective chemotherapeutic agents are some of the advances in prostate cancer management seen in the text to accurately and quickly provide the pertinent thoughts regarding prostatic disease management for the busy clinician. past one to two decades.