Clinical Pediatric Urology

There is no doubt that this is the definitive work on clinical pediatric urology. For a reference work the detail and completeness are virtues; however, textbooks that pass through several editions often suffer from the fact that, in the interest of completeness, additions are constantly made and deletions are few. The result may be a large and rather unwieldly volume. The author has faced difficulties in deciding the scope of the volume. Should he assume that the reader is well versed in general urology and discuss only the variations concerning infants and children, or should he write a more or less complete treatise on urology, with special attention directed to pediatric problems? The latter course has been chosen and is well exemplified, for instance, in the chapter on urinary calculi in which the entire field, including etiology, pathogenesis, and prophylaxis, has been dealt with at length. Among other subjects, which