Transurethral Prostatectomy

This attractive monograph on an important urologic surgical procedure represents an authoritative compilation of all worth-while essentials for good transurethral surgery on the obstructing prostate gland. The author makes no claims for originality but carefully explains that the technics and procedures are those employed in his first class university urologic department. As narrated by Dr. Nesbit, the technics may well be used by all urologists and the setup might be adopted by any well regulated urologic department. The initial chapter on arterial distribution within the prostate gland, by Rubin H. Flocks, is complete in anatomic detail and serves as a background for the author's transurethral surgical approach. The original illustrations of William P. Didusch are beautiful and so completely descriptive that any urologist could follow Dr. Nesbit's surgical technics with absolute accuracy. An important detail of surgical procedure is Dr. Nesbit's determination of blood loss at the time of operation.