Percutaneous therapy of low stage and grade urothelial neoplasia: long-term follow up.

Nephroureterectomy with the excision of the ipsilateral ureteral orifice and bladder cuff has been considered the standard treatment of the urinary upper transitional cell carcinoma. With the advent of sophisticated techniques for the endo-urologic management of many benign urologic diseases of the upper tract, there has been growing enthusiasm for the application of these same techniques in the management of upper tract TCC, which is also supported by recent advances in the development of small calibre telescopes with improved optics and the development of small calibre adjunctive instruments and laser fibers. A large number of cases published in the literature has confirmed the safety and efficacy of percutaneous treatment in selected patients with upper tract TCC of low grade and stage.

The use of vesical irrigation system dual pump Endo FMS urology in the endoscopic therapy of benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Objective: Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) remains the reference standard treatment in the management of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The objective of this study was to determine whether vesical irrigation during TURP with the dual pump system Endo FMS Urology is more efficient than standard gravity irrigation.

Methods: A group of 30 patients who underwent TURP using the Endo FMS Urology was compared to a group of 30 patients treated with standard vesical irrigation.

[Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy as surgical therapy in the kidney-ureter calculosis].

Introduction: The coming of the extra-corporeal shock waves lithotripsy (ESWL) represented one of the main progress in medicine of all times.

Materials And Methods: From January '84 up to March '99, 7.508 patients underwent extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) for renal, ureteral and bladder stones with a total of 13.

[Pathology and physiopathology of urethral stenosis].

The research of new techniques for surgical repair of urethral stenosis, has developed interest and knowledge toward tissue handling and transfer in urology. Successful surgical repair of "long" stenosis is possible nowadays, using graft or flap tissue transfer. The knowledge of methral anatomy and of histopathology urethral anatomy, histopathology and physiopathology of the mechanism involved in process of urethral narrowing, is necessary for the diagnosis and the surgical indication of this pathology.