Polyethylene glycol hydrogel rectal spacer implantation in patients with prostate cancer undergoing combination high-dose-rate brachytherapy and external beam radiotherapy.

Purpose: To present rectal toxicity rates in patients administered a polyethylene glycol (PEG) hydrogel rectal spacer in conjunction with combination high-dose-rate brachytherapy and external beam radiotherapy.

Methods And Materials: Between February 2010 and April 2015, 326 prostate carcinoma patients underwent combination high-dose-rate brachytherapy of 16 Gy (average dose 15.5 Gy; standard deviation [SD] = 1.

Surgical management of bilateral ureteral endometriosis.

Ureteral endometriosis is a rare disease that typically is unilateral. Endometriosis involving both ureters and surgical management after hormone therapy failure has seldom been described. We describe a patient with bilateral ureteral endometriosis who underwent ureteroneocystostomy with psoas hitches of both ureters.