Publications by authors named "Hellara W"
Purpose: Identify predictors for selecting patients who requires analgesia during lithotripsy.
Methods: This is a prospective study over a period of 13 months, 100 patients with kidney stones treated by an electromagnetic lithotripter (siemens; lithoskop) were selected. For the study of subjective pain caused by the ESWL at different times of the session, a visual analog scale (VAS) was used at different times (T) of the session (T0 before shots, T1 at 500 shots, T2 at 1500 shots, T end of treatment).
Background: Studies that evaluated the effect of age and gender on the stone composition were scarce. The aim of this study was to identify the stone composition in Tunisian patients and to highlight their modification according to patients' sex and age.
Patients And Methods: We studied 1200 urolithiasic patients, from the urologic and the pediatric surgery departments, ranging from six months to 92years old and known as having urinary stones (729 males and 471 females).
Background: Studies that evaluate the effect of age and gender on the stone composition are scarce. The aim of this study is to highlight the modification of epidemiological characteristics of this pathology according to patients' sex and age.
Patients And Methods: We studied 1269 urolithiasic patients ranging from 6 months to 92 years old and known as having urinary stones (752 males and 517 females).
Objective: To compare the epidemiological profiles and histoprognostic factors of two groups of prostate cancer: T1a versus T1b.
Materials And Methods: Between January 1996 and December 2005, 1359 patients were operated for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in our urology department. All patients had a PSA less than 4 ng/ml, an adenomatous prostate on digital rectal examination with a homogeneous appearance on prostatic ultrasonography.