Disorders of the Female Urethra and Urinary Incontinence

This monograph is derived from a 1976 symposium on disorders of the urethrovesical junction. The 14 chapters cover a wide range of topics, but unfortunately there is considerable overlap. The reader is reminded with annoying frequency of the importance of an adequate history and physical examination, the appropriate questions that should be asked, the values of various diagnostic procedures, and the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of surgical techniques. When an attempt is made to summarize, as in the three-page chapter on "the results in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence," the majority of the procedures advocated in the monograph are not even mentioned. A Table lists the results achieved by one surgeon, without mentioning the type of operation he performed. It is no wonder that the author concludes that "the surgical correction of stress urinary incontinence remains complex and distressing." The illustrations and photographic reproductions vary considerably in