Staging bladder carcinoma by three-dimensional ultrasound rendering.

Organ-confined staging for bladder cancer has major impact on further treatment. Most imaging techniques for this purpose are insufficient. We, therefore, assessed the value and the limitations of a new diagnostic tool, the 3-D ultrasound (US) rendering, to distinguish invasive from noninvasive bladder cancers.

Surgical intervention for complications of tension-free vaginal tape procedure.

Purpose: The tension-free vaginal tape procedure has become a state of the art operation for female stress urinary incontinence. Cases of complications requiring surgical revision are reported to be rare. We report on 6 patients with complications necessitating surgery.

Evaluation of disintegration in prevesical ureteral calculi by 3-dimensional endo-ultrasound with surface rendering.

Purpose: Lower ureteral calculi are accessible by transrectal endo-ultrasound, including 3-dimensional image processing with surface rendering. We analyzed the efficiency of this innovative technology compared with that of standard radiographic examinations with respect to the outcome of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) (Dornier Medical Systems, Marietta, Georgia).

Materials And Methods: In patients with prevesical or intramural calculi we performed excretory urography and transrectal endo-ultrasound using a Combison 530 device (Kretz Technik, Zipf, Austria) with integrated optional 3-dimensional image processing and surface rendering.

An innovative mobile lithotripter for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and therapy.

Introduction: To assess the performance of a new mobile device for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) and therapy (ESWT).

Materials And Methods: 278 patients underwent 399 treatment for stone disease. 28 patients received 64 treatments for orthopaedic issues such as pseudarthrosis or enthesiopathies resistant to conservative treatment.

High-flow priapism: a combined interventional approach with angiography and colour Doppler.

Traumatic high-flow priapism caused by a pathologic influx from lacerated arteries to the cavernous bodies is usually treated by transcatheter arterial embolisation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a combined interventional approach with intraoperative perineal colour Doppler ultrasound (US) while performing the embolisation procedure. Our aim was to reduce radiation exposure and application of iodinised contrast media.