This book has been refreshed across all topics and is an academic and practical guide to the diagnostic methods and management strategies for both common and rare scrotal diseases. Chapters focus on the normal anthropometric measures of the scrotum as a unique organ and the latest relevant advancements in the field. Techniques including scrotal reconstruction for congenital abnormalities, trauma, and cancer-related extirpation are all covered. Critical tools and methods related to aesthetics are also detailed. Emphasis is also placed on identifying common pitfalls and how to avoid them, ensuring that the reader is fully equipped to deal with a range of scenarios. The different tools of artificial intelligence are introduced for their use in diagnosing and differentiating the diverse diseases and conditions affecting the scrotum.
Normal and Abnormal Scrotum 2e describes how to approach diagnosing and managing the entire range of scrotal diseases, making it essential for all general practitioners, pediatricians, urologists, and pediatric and aesthetic surgeons who encounter these patients in their day-to-day practice.
Mohamed Fahmy is a prominent pediatric surgeon and medical scientist who innovate and established a continent urinary diversion technique for children with failed repair of bladder exstrophy, and many other techniques and procedures in pediatric surgery to succor children with congenital anomalies. He practiced surgery in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Germany for 35 years. He added his own experience in different fields of pediatric surgery; mainly in the rare genitourinary anomalies, and genital reconstruction. He spent almost of his life managing and reporting about the rare genitourinary diseases.
He developed and innovate the use of surgical staplers in many fields which were not customary in use before him; like his innovation in cases of recurrent Hirschsprung’s disease, intestinal duplication and multiple familial polyposis.
Fahmy evolved the idea of intralesional injection of bleomycin for a wide spectrum of cases of vascular and lymphatic malformations, with a great success in curing many children and boosted them to resume a normal outlook.
His experience and publications about the implication of tissue expanders for the management of vascular malformations and giant melanomas are an obvious landmark in this field.
Fahmy pioneered the reconstruction of post circumcision deformities in both male and female, and shared effectively in many global foundations to compete the malpractice of preputial mutilation. It seems that Fahmy is fond of helping the children to assume their normal body image.
Another side of Fahmy’s career is the scientific researches, editing and publication; in this regard, Fahmy authored 6 international textbooks published by the most famous publications houses; Springers and Elsevier. Fahmy had 40 international publications in a prestigious journal with a high impaction, and his researches were read by more than 1.5 minions’ researchers and cited by more than 1800 authors all over the world. In the field of pediatric surgery; Fahmy was ranked as No 1 in his university, Al-Azhar, No 3 in Egypt, No 8 in Africa and No 158 among the 1,614,852 world pediatric surgeons. Fahmy served as an editor-in chief, associated editor, as a member of the editorial board and reviewer for a wide range of highly respectables journals and periodicals.
Along his career Prof Fahmy trained, monitor and supervised many junior pediatric surgeons and urologists, who’ became also a pioneer in their field all over the world
