Pediatric Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma as Seen on 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Pediatric nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a rare malignancy strongly associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection. Patients typically present with non-specific symptoms of epistaxis or serous otitis from eustachian tube obstruction and therefore diagnosis is often delayed. We present a case of a previously healthy 17 year old female who initially complained of migraines which was resistant to oral medication.

Comparison of donor, and early and late recipient outcomes following hand assisted and laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.

Purpose: While laparoscopic donor nephrectomy has encouraged living kidney donation, debate exists about the safest laparoscopic technique. We compared purely laparoscopic and hand assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomies in terms of donor outcome, early graft function and long-term graft outcome.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed the records of consecutive laparoscopic and hand assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomies performed by a single surgeon from 2002 to 2011.

Open surgical repair of ureteral strictures and fistulas following radical cystectomy and urinary diversion.

Purpose: Open surgery after cystectomy can be a challenge. We report the incidence of postoperative urinary diversion-enteric fistula and ureteral strictures in patients undergoing radical cystectomy, and discuss the diagnosis and management of these complications, including our surgical approach to these patients.

Materials And Methods: We preformed a retrospective review of 553 patients undergoing radical cystectomy and urinary diversion for bladder cancer between April 1999 and January 2007.