Manual of urology

Abstract

Surgery and its specialized branch, urology, despite scientific advances, remains an art. There are often several reasonable ways of treating the same condition, and the selected method may depend on the duration of the disease, on its extent or on the presence of a complication. It will be influenced by the age and general fitness of the patient and by his location. It will undoubtedly be affected by the experience of the surgeon and especially by his training, his equipment and by the team of assistants at his disposal. It was therefore felt necessary to describe more than one operative procedure for a single pathological condition. Although the author has usually indicated lines of treatment which are fairly widely accepted, occasionally an operation which may be appropriate in isolated surroundings is described, although it might not now be employed in a well equipped and adequately staffed urological unit.