This text provides a comprehensive, state of the art review of this field and will serve as a resource for urologists, colorectal surgeons, geriatricians, and gynecologists as well as researchers interested in neuromuscular phenomena in the pelvis. The book also reviews new data regarding risk factors for pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and profiles new minimally invasive surgical strategies for well known pelvic disease processes. Each chapter is chock full of data from landmark trials which have been published over the past few years and placed in context with respect to current management techniques for pelvic floor disorders. 

David A. Gordon, M.D., FACS

Chief of Urology, Levindale Chronic Hospital & Neuro-Rehabilitation Center

Director of Graduate Medical Education in Urology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Program Chair, NeuroUrology, UroGerontology, UroRehabilitation Fellowship

Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Maryland

The Sandra & Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute

Baltimore, MD

 

Mark R. Katlic, M.D., M.M.M., FACS

Chairman, Department of Surgery

Director, Center for Geriatric Surgery

Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

2401 West Belvedere Avenue

Baltimore, MD