Robotic assisted laparoscopic excision of a pelvic angiomyofibroblastoma-like tumor.

Angiomyofibroblastoma (AMF) is a rare benign tumor of the female genital tract. Three cases of AMF-like tumors of the male genital tract have been reported in the literature. We present the first documented case of an AMF-like soft tissue tumor of the male pelvis excised with robotic assisted laparoscopic surgery.

Best practices for the treatment and prevention of urinary tract infection in the spinal cord injured population: The Alberta context.

The purpose of this review of clinical guidelines and best practices literature is to suggest prevention options and a treatment approach for intermittent catheter users that will minimize urinary tract infections (UTI). Recommendations are based both on evidence in the literature and an understanding of what is currently attainable within the Alberta context. This is done through collaboration between both major tertiary care centres (Edmonton and Calgary) and between various professionals who regularly encounter these patients, including nurses, physiatrists and urologists.

Age ≥ 80 years is independently associated with survival outcomes after radical cystectomy: results from the Canadian Bladder Cancer Network Database.

Objectives: The role of advanced age as an independent prognostic factor for clinical outcomes after radical cystectomy is controversial. The objective of the current study was to assess the associations between age and clinical outcomes in a large, multi-institutional series of patients treated with radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.

Materials And Methods: Institutional radical cystectomy databases containing detailed information on bladder cancer patients treated between 1993 and 2008 were obtained from 8 academic centers in Canada.

Referral and treatment rates of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer before and after publication of a clinical practice guideline.

Introduction: The objective of this study was to compare referral and treatment rates of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer before and after publication of a clinical practice guideline.

Methods: This was a retrospective comparative cohort study of 236 patients diagnosed with clinical stage >/= T2 bladder cancer in Alberta, Canada. Patients were divided into 2 groups based on the time of diagnosis relative to the publication of the Alberta Genitourinary Oncology Group Clinical Practice Guideline on Bladder Cancer (CPG), which recommends cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle-invasive disease.

Associations between comorbidity, and overall survival and bladder cancer specific survival after radical cystectomy: results from the Alberta Urology Institute Radical Cystectomy database.

Purpose: We determined the associations between comorbidity, and overall survival and bladder cancer specific survival after radical cystectomy.

Materials And Methods: The Alberta Urology Institute Radical Cystectomy database is an ongoing multi-institutional computerized database containing data on all adult patients with a diagnosis of primary bladder cancer treated with radical cystectomy in Edmonton, Canada from April 1994 forward. The current study is an analysis of consecutive database patients treated between April 1994 and September 2007.

Laparoscopic removal of a pelvic cyst associated with obstructed megaureter and dysplastic renal remnant.

We report a case of a 41-year-old man with a solitary functioning left kidney and history of chronic pelvic discomfort associated with lower urinary tract symptoms. Imaging revealed a large cystic structure in the pelvis attached to a dilated tortuous ureter on the right with congenital absence of the right kidney. The patient underwent laparoscopic removal of the pelvic cyst and dilated right ureter.