Managing Segmental Renal Diseases

This volume focuses on those rare congenital or acquired kidney pathologies that are localized in only one part of the organ, while the rest of the organ remains unaffected. It helps readers identify the segmentary stage of the disease and discusses in-depth possible conservative surgical approaches: partial nephrectomy, calicectomy and lobectomy.

It is a valuable resource for urologists, nephrologists and surgeons as well as researchers and practitioners involved in the field.

Foreword.- Definitions of segment or zone, segmentary renal diseases, segmentary renal surgery.- Renal organization.- Surgical anatomy of segmentectomy, or calicectomy or lobectomy.- Potentially segmentary renal diseases (calculosis, tuberculosis, congenital or not cystic diseases, special inflammations, pyramid congenital pathologies).- Reconstructive intrarenal surgery.- Calicopieloplastic.- Calical stricture.- Other Intrarenal Procedures.- Laparoscopic and Robotic surgery.

Professor Salvatore Rocca Rossetti was Chief of the Urologic Clinic/Department in Cagliari (1971-75), in Trieste (1975-83) and in Turin (1983-2002) and was also Director of Urologic Postgraduate School in those Universities. He has been a member of The Intrarenal Surgery Society since 1975. He was an invited professor in Heidelberg in 1975 and has been an honorary member of the German Urologic Society since 1985. He is the author of many publications on intrarenal surgery, renal tumors, bladder tumors and bench surgery. He was president of the Italian Urologic Society (SIU) from 1985-87