Endometriosis: Science and Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444332139 ISBN 13: 9781444332131

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Synopsis

Written by an internationally well-known editor team, Endometriosis: Science and Practice is a state-of-the-art guide to this surprisingly common disease. While no cause for endometriosis has been determined, information of recent developments are outlined in this text, offering insight to improve management of symptoms medically or surgically. The first of its kind, this major textbook integrates scientific and clinical understanding of this painful disease helping to provide better patient care.

About this title

About the Author

Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Hans L. H. Evers, MD, PhD, University of Maastricht, Netherlands

David Healy, MB BS, PhD, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

From the Back Cover

Science merged with clinical practice towards relieving the symptoms of endometriosis

Endometriosis is frequently intensely painful and can lead to infertility causing disruption of women's lives and relationships. It can be a devastating condition. Major progress has been made in recent years on understanding the causes of endometriosis and developing effective clinical therapies.

Endometriosis: Science and Practice fuses the scientific and clinical approaches. It marries the characteristics of the disease, how it presents and possible causes with medical and surgical approaches to pain therapy, and wider aspects of the disease.

Broad in outlook, focused in application, Endometriosis: Science and Practice covers:

• Pathogenesis
• Disease Characterization
• Biological basis of Endometriosis
• Diagnosis
• Medical Therapies
• Surgical Therapies
• Infertility
• Associated Disorders

The stellar cast of contributors, led by world-leading editors from the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, have produced a contemporary tour-de-force that should be on the bookshelf of anyone who provides medical care for women.

Endometriosis is frequently intensely painful and can lead to infertility causing disruption of women's lives and relationships. It can be a devastating condition. Major progress has been made in recent years on understanding the causes of endometriosis and developing effective clinical therapies.

Endometriosis: Science and Practice fuses the scientific and clinical approaches. It marries the characteristics of the disease, how it presents and possible causes with medical and surgical approaches to pain therapy, and wider aspects of the disease.

Broad in outlook, focused in application, Endometriosis: Science and Practice covers:

• Pathogenesis
• Disease Characterization
• Biological basis of Endometriosis
• Diagnosis
• Medical Therapies
• Surgical Therapies
• Infertility
• Associated Disorders

The stellar cast of contributors, led by world-leading editors from the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, have produced a contemporary tour-de-force that should be on the bookshelf of anyone who provides medical care for women.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444332139
• ISBN 13: 9781444332131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Giudice MD Linda C., Evers MD Johannes L. H., Healy David L.