Publications by authors named "R E El-Galley"
The utility of routine frozen section (FS) analysis for margin evaluation during radical prostatectomy (RP) remains controversial. A retrospective search was conducted to identify RPs evaluated by FS over a 5-year period. The potential of FS to discriminate between benign and malignant tissue and to predict final margins was evaluated.
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- A new formula called PSA-age volume (AV) score integrates age, prostate volume, race, and PSA levels to improve prostate cancer detection.
- The PSA-AV score was developed from 1000 biopsy specimens and validated with a larger sample group, demonstrating that a lower score indicates a higher cancer risk.
- Using a PSA-AV score of 700 provides a better detection method, increasing the detection of cancers while reducing unnecessary biopsies in certain patient groups.
Purpose: To identify patients who would benefit from robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC), we report perioperative outcomes and complications.
Patients And Methods: We compared patients who underwent RARC to patients who underwent open cystectomy (OC) in our institution. Data included demographics, operative variables, and recovery.
Purpose: We explored the safety and reproducibility of hand assisted laparoscopic bilateral native nephrectomy. We also present our improvements to the surgical technique.
Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 36 patients who underwent hand assisted laparoscopic bilateral nephrectomy at our institution between 2003 and 2010.
Objective: The objective was to provide urologists with a simple basis for optimizing the number of prostate biopsy cores that should be taken.
Methods: The records of 1024 patients who had undergone transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsies were reviewed. The prostate volume was divided by the number of biopsies to obtain the volume/biopsy ratio (VBR).