The Pelvic Floor: Its Functions and Disorders

The Pelvic Floor is ahighly accessible, clinically focussed book which comprehensively covers this important topic. Edited and written by multidisciplinary teams of coloprocologists, urologists, gynecologists and neurologists, it comprehensively covers the pelvic floor in both health and disease states. An evidence-based approach to management of problems is adopted throughout. The text is augmented by a plethora of illustrations, photgraphs, summary tables and boxes, together with helpful management algorithms that summarize treatment pathways for all common clinical problems of the pelvic floor.. The book has grown out of the best-selling Coloproctology and the Pelvic Floor, and will appeal to colorectal surgeons, gynecologists, neurologists, and urologists.Clinically focussed on the care and management of the patient Accessible - contains many tables and summary boxes to help the reader get fast access to the answer. The first chapter provides invaluable management algorithms for all common pelvic floor problems Chapters are written by multidisciplinary teams of coloproctologists, urologists, neurologists and gynecologists, to reflect the way patients are treated in practice. International line-up of contributors and coverage of treatment issues Comprehensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs and a specially commissioined artwork program.