Publications by authors named "Al'a Abdo"
Purpose: To assess the national trends and comparative effectiveness of the various treatments for pediatric ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO).
Patients And Methods: Within the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a weighted estimate of 35,275 pediatric patients (<19 years; 1998-2010) with UPJO underwent open pyeloplasty (OP), laparoscopic pyeloplasty (LP), robot-assisted pyeloplasty (RP, ≥October 2008) or endopyelotomy (EP). National trends in utilization and comparative effectiveness were evaluated.
Objectives: Local tumor destruction (LTD) is a recommended therapy alternative for localized T1 renal cell carcinoma for patients who are unfit for surgery. We examined patterns of use and complication rates of LTD in a large population-based cohort.
Materials And Methods: Overall, data for 5,285 patients undergoing LTD for renal cell carcinoma were extracted from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database from 2006 to 2010.
Objectives: The 2004 National Comprehensive Cancer Network practice guidelines recommend pelvic lymph node dissection at radical prostatectomy. We sought to examine the adherence to the 2004 National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines and to test the their accuracy, as well as the accuracy of the most contemporary National Comprehensive Cancer Network, American Urological Association, and European Association of Urology guidelines to predict lymph node metastases.
Methods: A total of 33 037 radical prostatectomy patients were identified, between 2004 and 2006.
Background: Privately insured patients may have favorable health outcomes when compared to those covered by federally funded initiatives. This study explored the effect of insurance status on five short-term outcomes after partial nephrectomy (PN).
Methods: Within the Health Care Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), we focused on PNs performed between 1998 and 2007.
Objectives: To examine the ability of the threshold recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) in correctly predicting histologically-confirmed lymph node invasion (LNI). The 2010 NCCN practice guidelines for prostate cancer recommend a pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) at radical prostatectomy in all individuals with a nomogram predicted LNI risk of ≥2%.
Patients And Methods: We assessed 20,877 patients who were treated with radical prostatectomy and PLND between 2004 and 2006, within the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database.
Objective: The detrimental effect of unmarried marital status on stage and survival has been confirmed in several malignancies. We set to test whether this applied to patients diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) treated with radical prostatectomy (RP).
Methods: We identified 163,697 non-metastatic PCa patients treated with RP, within 17 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registries.
Background: Previous reports indicated that African-American men with testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) have more aggressive tumor characteristics and less favorable outcomes than other men. The authors of this report evaluated the effects of race and socioeconomic status (SES) on stage distribution, overall mortality (OM), and cancer-specific mortality (CSM) in men with TGCTs.
Methods: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database was used to identify 22,553 men who were diagnosed with TGCTs between 1988 and 2006.
Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is relatively uncommon. In this article, we review prognostic factors, criteria and indications for treatment with the available modalities using contemporary data. A systematic search on PubMed was performed using the keywords 'upper tract urothelial carcinoma', 'upper tract transitional cell carcinoma', 'nephroureterectomy', 'laparoscopic', 'endoscopic' and 'prognostic factor'.
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