Bilateral single-session retrograde intra-renal surgery: A safe option for renal stones up to 1.5 cm.

Introduction: Assessment of treatment outcomes in patients undergoing bilateral single-session retrograde intra-renal surgery (RIRS) for bilateral renal stones up to 1.5 cm.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective analysis of 74 patients was done with bilateral renal calculi, who underwent bilateral single-session RIRS at our stone referral hospital from December 2011 to May 2014.

Can the need for palliative transurethral prostatic resection in patients with advanced carcinoma of the prostate be predicted?

Purpose: To identify the factors predicting the need for palliative transurethral resection of the prostate (channel TURP) in patients with advanced carcinoma of the prostate (CAP) receiving androgen ablation therapy.

Patients And Methods: From January 1996 to January 2004, 203 patients with advanced CAP were treated by androgen ablation. Patients presenting with retention were catheterized initially, and those (N = 12) who failed a catheter-free trial and had immediate channel TURP were excluded.

Buccal mucosal urethroplasty for balanitis xerotica obliterans related urethral strictures: the outcome of 1 and 2-stage techniques.

Purpose: Balanitis xerotica obliterans (BXO) related strictures are complex and generally managed by 2-staged urethroplasty. We present our results with 1-stage dorsal onlay and 2-stage buccal mucosal urethroplasty for such strictures.

Materials And Methods: Between January 2000 and April 2004, 39 patients underwent buccal mucosal urethroplasty for BXO related anterior urethral strictures.