A new titanium-covered transobturator tape for surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence.

Introduction And Hypothesis: To assess the long-term satisfaction, cure rate and safety of a new titanium-covered transobturator tape compared to polypropylene tape for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Methods: A prospective study was conducted with 151 patients. Seventy patients underwent transobturator sling surgery with titanium tape from 2011 to 2019, and a historical control group (CG) of 81 patients was treated with a noncoated tape and underwent incontinence surgery from 1999 to 2009.

Rare case of remission of a patient with small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcaemic type (SCCOHT) stage IV: Case report.

Introduction: Small cell carcinoma of the ovary (SCC) is a very rare (less than 1 % of ovarien neoplasia), highly undifferentiated, aggressive malignancy affecting young women and linked to a poor prognosis. Overall survive rate is very low (about 16 %). SCCOHT has recently been shown to be associated with SMARCA4 gene mutations and shows some genetic similarities to malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRT).

Endometriosis and the menopause: why the question merits our full attention.

As an estrogen-dependent disease, endometriosis was thought to become less active or regress with the onset of the menopause. However, based on some new data, we are discovering that this pathology can emerge or reappear at this period of life. Clinicians must consider it as a possible cause for cases of pelvic pain, and heavy bleeding.

[Laser application in celioscopic surgery].

The laser is certainly one of the most important discoveries of this century. Laser means: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The characteristics of laser radiation are coherence (same phase, amplitude and direction), monochromaticity, and collimation.