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About Us : Biographies : Mr Christopher Eden

Mr Christopher Eden

(GMC number 3081165)

Portrait of Mr Christopher Eden

Qualifications

MBBS

King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry

June 1985

FRCS (Urol.)

Royal College of Surgeons of England

December 1995

MS

University of London

March 1997

Prizes & Awards

1984

Almond Prize in Diseases of Children

1985

Legg Prize in Surgery

1994

Everidge Research Prize in Urology

1995

Bard-Angiomed Urolink Travel Award

1995

BAUS-Zeneca Video Prize

1997

Ethicon Foundation Fund Travelling Fellowship

1997

Royal College of Surgeons Foundation Inc., New York

Current Appointments

Consultant Urologist
The North Hampshire Hospital
Aldermaston Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 9NA

Honorary Consultant Urologist
The Royal Surrey County Hospital
Egerton Road
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XX

Special Advisor to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence

Training in Urology

Senior Registrar in Urology

Guy’s Hospital.

10.2.97 – 30.09.97

Senior Registrar to Stone Centre

St. Thomas' Hospital.

1.10.95 – 9.2.97

Senior Registrar in Urology

Kent & Canterbury Hospital

1.1.95 – 30.9.95

Registrar in Urology

Kent & Canterbury Hospital

1.3.94 – 31.12.94

Wickham Research Fellow in Urology

King's College Hospital

1.4.93 – 28.2.94

Registrar in Urology

King's College Hospital

1.10.91 – 31.3.93

Overseas

Radical prostatectomy (September 1997)
Dr P Walsh, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA

Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (January 2000)
Dr G Vallencien, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France

Laparoscopic urology (January 2001)
Dr I Gill, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Publications

Letters

Eden CG. Classifying dissection of the thoracic aorta. Surgery 1991; 97: 2329.

Eden CG. Ultrasound-guided subclavian vein catheterisation. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1991; 73: 399.

Eden CG. Deep tension sutures in high-risk abdominal wound closure. Surgery 1992; 99: i.

Eden CG. Defending the use of deep tension sutures in high-risk abdominal wound closure. Surgery 1992; 10: 72d.

Eden CG, Bradpiece H. Deceleration injury of the gall bladder. Hospital Update 1993; 19: 185.

Eden CG, Carter PG, Bellringer JF, Pryor JP, Coker C. Managing impotence in diabetes. British Medical Journal 1993; 307: 739.

Eden CG, Carter PG. Hospital management of urinary incontinence. Hospital Update 1993; 19: 566.

Haigh AC, Eden CG. Laparoscopic surgery leads to better post-operative pulmonary function. British Medical Journal 1996; 312: 1159.

Cahill D, Eden CG. The management of ureteric stones and laparoscopic ureterolithotomy: the Edinburgh experience. BJU International 2000; 86: 404.

Eden CG. Lessons learned from laser tissue soldering and fibrin glue pyeloplasty in an in vivo porcine model. J Urol 2001; 166; 629.

Points of technique

Eden CG, Murray KHA. A purpose-designed self-retaining kidney retractor for operative retroperitoneoscopy. British Journal of Urology 1995; 76: 511.

Case reports

Eden CG, Williams TG. Duodenal perforation complicating laser cholecystectomy. Endoscopy 1992; 24: 790-792.

Eden CG, Bettochi C, Coker CB, Yates-Bell AJ, Pryor JP. Malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis. Journal of Urology 1995; 153: 1053-1054.

Eden CG, Adamson A, Protheroe A. Trash penis. British Journal of Urology 1995; 75: 675-676.

Eden CG, Adamson A, Jeer PJS, Smith AS, Coptcoat MJ. Retroperitoneoscopic renal cystectomy - an unusual pitfall. British Journal of Urology 1995; 75: 674-675.

Eden CG, Marker AJ, Pryor JP. Human immunodeficiency virus-related bacillary angiomatosis of the penis. British Journal of Urology 1996; 77: 323-324.

Original articles

Newsom SWB, Eden CG, Wells FC, Meredith P. Penetration of enoxacin into lung tissue. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 1989; 23: 113-115.

Eden CG, Breach NM, Goldstraw P. The treatment of desmoid tumours in Gardner's syndrome. Thorax 1992; 47: 662-663.

Eden CG, Carter PG, Haigh AC, Sherwood RA, Green DW, Coptcoat MJ. The metabolic response to laparoscopic and open nephrectomy. Minimally Invasive Therapy 1994; 3: 43-50.

Eden CG, Haigh AC, Carter PG, Coptcoat MJ. Laparoscopic nephrectomy results in better postoperative lung function. Journal of Endourology 1994; 8: 419-423.

Eden CG, Murray KHA. Retroperitoneoscopic dismembered fibrin-glued pyeloplasty ~ initial report. Minimally Invasive Therapy 1995; 4: 147-152.

Eden CG, Coptcoat MJ. Assessment of alternative tissue approximation techniques for laparoscopic surgery. British Journal of Urology 1996; 78: 234-242.

Eden CG, Sultana SR, Murray KHA, Carruthers RK. Extraperitoneal laparoscopic dismembered fibrin-glued pyeloplasty: medium-term results. British Journal of Urology 1997; 80: 382-389.

Eden CG, Mark IR, Gupta RR, Eastman J, Shrotri NC, Tiptaft RC. Intracorporeal or extracorporeal lithotripsy for distal ureteric calculi? The effect of stone size and multiplicity on success rates. Journal of Endourology 1998; 12: 313-317.

Eden CG, Cahill D, Allen JD. Laparoscopic dismembered pyeloplasty: 50 consecutive cases. BJU Int 2001; 88: 526-531.

Eden CG, Cahill D, Vass JA, Adams TH, Dauleh MI. Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: the initial UK series. BJU Int 2002; 90: 876-872.

Eden CG, King D, Kooiman GG, Adams TH, Sullivan ME, Vass JA. Transperitoneal or extraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: does the approach matter? J Urol 2004; 172: 2218-2223.

Eden C, Gianduzzo T, Chang C, Thiruchelvam N, Jones A. Extraperitoneal laparoscopic pyeloplasty for primary and secondary ureteropelvic junction obstruction. J Urol 2004; 172: 2308-2311.

Review articles

Eden CG. Wound closure and suture material - historical perspective. Surgery 1991; 89: 2127a.

Eden CG. A classification of suture material and needles. Surgery 1991; 91: 2179a.

Eden CG. Factors affecting the strength of wound closure. Surgery 1991; 93: 2235a.

Eden CG. Properties of individual suture materials. Surgery 1991; 95: 2271a & 2283a.

Eden CG. Choice of suture material. Surgery 1992; 100: 12a.

Eden CG. Surgical diathermy. Surgery 1992; 10: 256b-256c.

Eden CG, Ison KT, Popert RJ, Carter PG, Coptcoat MJ. A consumer's guide to laparoscopic equipment in Urology. British Journal of Urology 1993; 72: 1-5.

Eden CG. Operative retroperitoneoscopy. British Journal of Urology 1995; 76: 125-130.

Eden CG. Tissue approximation techniques and their laparoscopic application. Minimally Invasive Therapy 1996; 5: 378-392.

Eden CG. Treatment options for pelviureteric junction obstruction ~ implications for practice and training. British Journal of Urology 1997; 80: 365-372.

Invited contributions

Eden CG. Alternative endoscopic access techniques to the retroperitoneum. Endoscopic Surgery and Allied Technologies 1995; 1: 27-28.

Eden CG. Alternative techniques for laparoscopic tissue anastomosis in the retroperitoneum. Endoscopic Surgery and Allied Technologies 1995; 1: 29-32.

Vass J, Eden CG. Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. Revisiones en Urologia 2001; 2: 89-98.

Eden CG. Extraperitoneal laparoscopic simple nephrectomy. www.websurg.com 2001.

Eden CG. Extraperitoneal laparoscopic pyeloplasty. www.websurg.com 2001.

Chapters

Coptcoat MJ, Eden CG. Instrumentation. In: Coptcoat MJ, Joyce AD eds., Laparoscopy in Urology. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1993, Chap. 3, pp. 10-26.

Eden CG, Coptcoat MJ. The metabolic response to operative laparoscopy. In: Coptcoat MJ, Joyce AD eds., Laparoscopy in Urology. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1993, Chap. 7, pp. 54-62.

Coptcoat MJ, Eden CG. Laparoscopic retroperitoneal surgery. In: Coptcoat MJ, Joyce AD eds., Laparoscopy in Urology. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1993, Chap. 14, pp. 110-120.

Eden CG, Coptcoat MJ. Laparoscopic equipment. In: Handbook of Urological Equipment. London: British Association of Urological Surgeons, 1994, Chap. 9.

Eden CG. Development. In: Eden CG ed., Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Surgery. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1997, Chap. 1, pp. 1-5.

Eden CG. Tissue approximation techniques. In: Eden CG ed., Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Surgery. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1997, Chap. 13, pp. 131-143.
Eden CG. Pyeloplasty. In: Eden CG ed., Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Surgery. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1997, Chap. 14, pp. 145-154.

Books

Eden CG ed., Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Surgery. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1997.

Significant achievements in laparoscopy

First laparoscopic pyeloplasty in the UK on 15 August 1994

First laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in the UK on 6 March 2000

First laparoscopic radical cystoprostatectomy in the UK on 18 January 2001

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