Two Micrometer Continuous-Wave Thulium Laser Treating Primary Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: Is It Feasible? A Randomized Prospective Study.

Background And Objective: Until now, various laser types have been used in the treatment of bladder cancer. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of 2 μm continuous-wave (CW) thulium laser in treating primary non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).

Methods: A comparative (randomized prospective) interventional study was conducted in our center.

Treatment of urethral strictures using lingual mucosas urethroplasty: experience of 92 cases.

Background: Urethroplasty of complex urethral stricture is a difficult procedure, and there is no widely accepted standard approach described in the published literature. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of urethroplasty using lingual mucosa grafts (LMGs) for the repair of urethral strictures.

Methods: Between August 2006 and April 2009, 92 cases of urethral strictures (length ranging from 2.

Oral mucosal grafts urethroplasty for the treatment of long segmented anterior urethral strictures.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of using oral mucosal grafts for urethroplasty in the treatment of complex segmented urethral strictures.

Methods: Between January 2002 and January 2008, 25 cases of long or multi-segmented urethral strictures (10-18 cm, mean 11.72) were treated using combined two oral mucosal graft urethroplasty.

Ileal ureteric replacement with an ileo-psoas muscle tunnel antirefluxing technique for the treatment of long segment ureteric strictures.

Objectives: To develop and report our initial experience with a novel antirefluxing technique for segmental ileal ureteric replacement for the treatment of long ureteric strictures.

Patients And Methods: Between January 2000 and January 2007, 12 cases of ureteric strictures (nine bilateral and three unilateral) were treated using a novel surgical technique in which the ureter was replaced with a segment of ileum using an end-to-side anastomosis. An antireflux valve was constructed by fixing the distal part of upper ureter (4 cm) between the psoas muscle and ileal segment (the ileo-psoas tunnel technique).

[Adrenal myelolipoma:clinical diagnosis and management of 26 cases].

Objective: To evaluate the diagnosis and management of adrenal myelolipoma.

Methods: The clinical data of 26 cases were analyzed retrospectively and the selected articles were reviewed. There were no specific clinical symptom and endocrine abnormality, except increasing catecholamine in 2 cases.

[One-stage urethroplasty using colonic mucosa in the treatment of complex lengthy urethral stricture].

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of urethral reconstruction with colonic mucosa graft in the treatment of complex lengthy urethral stricture.

Methods: Between October 2000 and May 2003, 19 male patients with complex lengthy urethral stricture that had undergone unsuccessful urethral repair 3 times on average, aged 18 - 65, were treated with free graft of colonic mucosa 10 to 17 cm (mean 13.2 cm) long.