Background: The COVID-19 pandemic drastically reduced opportunities for surgical skill sharing between high-income and low to middle-income countries. Augmented reality (AR) technology allows mentors in one country to virtually train a mentee in another country during surgical cases without international travel. We hypothesize that AR technology is an effective live surgical training and mentorship modality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a case of Conn's adenoma in a 35-year-old female successfully managed in a poor hospital technology environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBladder duplication is an unusual and congenital abnormality that is usually associated with other abnormalities. We reported the first case in a 16-year-old child who has complete bladder duplication by a tranversal septum. No duplication of the urethra was noted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ West Afr Coll Surg
May 2016
Background: Kidney cancer is the third most common urological tumour. Diagnosis is made in most cases at an advanced stage of the disease in our setting.
Aim & Objectives: The aim of this work was to describe the management of solid tumors of the kidney and the outcome at the National University Hospital, Cotonou, Benin Republic, from January 2008 to December 2014.
Background: Gangrene of the male genitalia called Fournier's gangrene is not an uncommon surgical condition in the urological service at Cotonou, Benin Republic; it is associated with high mortality and morbidity.
Patients & Methods: This is a retrospective, descriptive study conducted at the Teaching Clinic of Urology and Andrology at the National and Hospitable Center CNHU- Hubert Koutoukou MAGA in Cotonou, Benin Republic. The study is on patients managed for Fournier's gangrene from January 2002 to December 2012.