[Salvage laparoscopic pyeloplasty in the worst case scenario: after failed open repair and endoscopic salvage].

Objectives: We present the video of a laparoscopic correction of a left ureteropelvic junction obstruction in a patient who has already undergone previous surgical open pyeloplasty and subsequent acucise for failure of the first surgery. At 8 years after the second surgery, the patient showed a recurrence of the obstruction of the left ureteropelvic junction.
 It was decided to perform the retroperitoneal laparoscopic correction of the obstruction.

Dorsal free graft urethroplasty according to Barbagli. Minimum follow-up of 2 years.

Series of free graft methroplasties for structure of the urethra according to Barbagli. Fifteen men underwent dorsal free graft methroplasty for structures situated in the penile urethra in 6 cases, in the bulbous urethra in 7 and in the urethra geno bulbous in 2. The length of the structures ranged from 1.

Interstitial cystitis.

Interstitial cystitis (IC) is still considered a rare disease, but in the future its incidence will probably be revised if tendency is that of considering interstitial cystitis on the basis of clinical rather than endoscopic-histological criteria. According to some urologists, cystodistension and vesical biopsy, even if not pathognomonic, are still effective up till now, at least for their prognostic-therapeutic value as well. If on one hand in the diagnosis of this condition symptoms tend to be of more and more value unlike instrumental investigations, on the other hand little has changed in therapy.

Pubo-vaginal sling.

The Authors discuss their experience in the use of pubo-vaginal sling in the treatment of female urinary stress incontinence. In the last 5 years (1997-2002) 35 patients with type 3 incontinence underwent pubo-vaginal sling with rectus fascia or porcine skin. Healing was obtained in 74.

[Complications of urinary diversion after radiotherapy].

Primary radiation therapy may be recommended for patients with invasive bladder cancer, gynecological or prostatic cancer. When complications occur or in case of malignant recurrence, urinary diversion may be the best chance to restore an acceptable quality of life. The complication rate after this surgery is doubled.

[Pathology of the gynecologic ureter: our experience].

Unlabelled: Endometriosis, surgery and radiotherapy are the main causes of ureteral injuries in gynaecologic pathology.

Materials And Methods: In this paper we present our experience about ureteral injuries. We treated 31 patients; 6 cases of endometriosis, 13 cases of pelvic radiotherapy for gynecologic tumors, 12 cases of ureteral injuries after gynecologic surgery.