Patient Satisfaction with Telephone Versus Video-Televisits: A Cross-Sectional Survey of an Urban, Multiethnic Population.

Objective: To examine differences between telephone and video-televisits and identify whether visit modality is associated with satisfaction in an urban, academic general urology practice.

Methods: A cross sectional analysis of patients who completed a televisit at our urology practice (summer 2020) was performed. A Likert-based satisfaction telephone survey was offered to patients within 7 days of their televisit.

Initial Experience with Telemedicine at a Single Institution.

Introduction: Several studies have documented the efficacy of and patient satisfaction with video visits in place of face-to-face encounters. We evaluated patient satisfaction by diagnosis and determined whether specific urological diagnoses are more amenable to being managed via remote encounters. A secondary objective was to evaluate patient satisfaction according to patient age and distance from the clinic.

Extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the pancreas: case report and a review of the literature.

Gastrointestinal (GI) stromal tumors are mesenchymal tumors that arise from the GI tract. In rare cases, these tumors are found in intra-abdominal sites unrelated to the GI tract and are immunohistochemically similar to their GI tract counterparts. Primary pancreatic GI stromal tumors are very rare, with only 4 previous cases reported.

Rhabdomyolysis after laparoscopic nephrectomy.

Background And Objectives: Laparoscopic renal surgery has become a widely applied technique in recent years. The development of postoperative rhabdomyolysis is a known but rare complication of laparoscopic renal surgery. Herein, 4 cases of rhabdomyolysis and a review of the literature are presented with respect to pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention of this dire complication.

Outcomes of hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy in technically challenging cases.

Objectives: To evaluate the outcomes of hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy in patients with significant complicating clinical factors.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of 322 hand-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy cases that were completed at a single institution from 1998 to 2004. Patients with a history of extensive abdominal surgery or prior procedures on the affected kidney, evidence of perirenal inflammation, renal lesions 10 cm or more in diameter, or level I renal vein thrombus were included.