The role of tumor-free status in repeat resection before intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin for high grade Ta, T1 and CIS bladder cancer.

Purpose: We evaluated the outcome of repeat transurethral bladder tumor resection for high risk nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer before induction and maintenance bacillus Calmette-Guerin.

Materials And Methods: Included in the study were 151 consecutive patients with a mean age of 68.6 years (range 32 to 86) with primary high grade, nonmuscle invasive (Ta, T1 or CIS) bladder cancer.

Intrafascial nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy with a laparoscopic robot-assisted extraperitoneal approach: early oncological and functional results.

Objective: We investigated whether an intrafascial approach to prostatectomy would provide significantly improved outcomes compared with retropubic and laparoscopic approaches. We performed 50 radical prostatectomies with an intrafascial, nerve-sparing, laparoscopic, robot-assisted extraperitoneal approach.

Methods: From December 2007 to June 2008, 50 consecutive patients underwent nerve sparing surgery using the intrafascial technique with robotic assistance.

Oncologic outcome after extraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: midterm follow-up of 1115 procedures.

Background: Although the first laparoscopic radical prostatectomy was performed in 1997, few midterm oncologic data have been published for the extraperitoneal procedure.

Objective: To determine the oncologic outcome of extraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (ELRP).

Design, Setting, And Participants: From 2000 to 2007, 1115 consecutive patients underwent ELRP for a localized prostate cancer at our department.

Is robot assistance affecting operating room time compared with pure retroperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy?

Purpose: To compare operating room times between retroperitoneal robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALRP) and pure retroperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP).

Patients And Methods: From March 2007 to April 2008, 288 patients underwent an extraperitoneal LRP in our institution. Eighty-three LRPs were performed with robot assistance using the da Vinci Surgical System (RALRP) whereas 205 pure LRPs were performed.

[Haemospermia due to seminal vesicle amyloidosis. Treatment by laparoscopic vesiculectomy. A case report].

Amyloidosis of the seminal vesicles is a rare cause of haemospermia. The authors report the case of a 42-year-old patient with recurrent haemospermia over a period of 2 years and abnormalities of one seminal vesicle on ultrasonography and MRI, justifying laparoscopic resection. Histological examination demonstrated localized amyloidosis, secondary to inflammation.

[Inflammatory pseudotumour of the bladder in children: report of a new case and review of the literature].

Bladder tumour is rare in children and usually corresponds to embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma. However one of the differential diagnoses is inflammatory pseudotumour of the bladder which is a benign lesion with a good prognosis. The authors report the case of a 3-year-old boy who presented with macroscopic haematuria related to a lesion of the anterior bladder wall.