Publications by authors named "Shan-feng Tan"

Unlabelled: OBJECTIVE.The aim of this study was to report the authors' experience with percutaneous intrarenal marsupialization of symptomatic peripelvic renal cysts.

Material And Methods: Thirty-one patients (16 male and 15 female, with a mean age of 49 years) with a peripelvic renal cyst associated with chronic flank or lumbar pain or urinary infection were selected for percutaneous intrarenal marsupialization with a 2 μm laser in the authors' centre from January 2005 to December 2010.

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Objective: To explore the surgical approaches, efficacy and safety of percutaneous nephroscopic 2 µm laser incision and drainage in the treatment of peripelvic renal cysts.

Methods: The peripelvic renal cysts were punctured percutaneously. A 1.

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Objectives: To evaluate the curative efficacy of transurethral 2-mum thulium laser urethrotomy in the treatment of urethral stricture.

Methods: Two hundred and thirty-eight patients suffering from urethral stricture, all male, aged 47.3 (36-58), underwent transurethral 2-mum thulium laser urethrotomy.

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Objective: To evaluate the curative efficacy of transurethral 2 microm thulium laser urethrotomy in the treatment of urethral stricture and atresia.

Methods: 192 patients suffering from urethral stricture (n = 179) or atresia (n = 13), all male, aged 45.4 (38-56), underwent transurethral 2 microm thulium laser urethrotomy.

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