Fluorescence-enhanced robotic radical cystectomy using unconjugated indocyanine green for pelvic lymphangiography, tumor marking, and mesenteric angiography: the initial clinical experience.

Objective: To describe the initial feasibility of fluorescence-enhanced robotic radical cystectomy (FERRC) using real-time cystoscopic injection of unconjugated indocyanine green (ICG) for tumor marking and identification of sentinel lymphatic drainage with additional intravenous injection for mesenteric angiography.

Methods: Ten patients with clinically localized high-grade bladder cancer underwent FERRC. Before robot docking, rigid cystoscopy was performed, during which a 2.

Fluorescence-enhanced robotic radical prostatectomy using real-time lymphangiography and tissue marking with percutaneous injection of unconjugated indocyanine green: the initial clinical experience in 50 patients.

Background: Pilot studies have demonstrated the utility of indocyanine green (ICG) sentinel lymphadenectomy for prostate cancer. Prior work has used ICG with radiocontrast agents injected at a separate procedure and relied on assistant-controlled fluorescence systems, making the technique costly and cumbersome.

Objective: To describe the initial optimization and feasibility of fluorescence-enhanced robotic radical prostatectomy (FERRP) using real-time injection of ICG for tissue marking and identification of sentinel lymphatic drainage visualized by a fully integrated surgeon-controlled system.

Robotic partial adrenalectomy using indocyanine green dye with near-infrared imaging: the initial clinical experience.

Objective: To present the initial clinical experience with robot-assisted partial adrenalectomy using indocyanine green dye with near-infrared fluorescence (ICG-NIRF) imaging.

Methods: Three consecutive patients with solitary adrenal masses with worrisome features were referred for treatment. The preoperative workup included dedicated axial imaging and adrenal function studies.

Transmesocolic robotic extended pyelolithotomy of a large gas-containing renal stone: Case report and review of the literature.

We present the fifth case in the world literature of a gas-containing urinary stone. Our patient is a 31-year-old woman referred for left flank pain and gross hematuria who was noted on imaging to have a 6.5 cm left renal pelvis stone containing gas.

Indocyanine green cannot predict malignancy in partial nephrectomy: histopathologic correlation with fluorescence pattern in 100 patients.

Introduction: Indocyanine green (ICG) is emerging as a potential adjunct to robot-assisted partial nephrectomy by its ability to aid in the real-time identification of renal vasculature, renal masses, and the renal mass-parenchymal margin. The fluorescence patterns of renal masses have not been adequately described according to histology, and it remains unknown if fluorescence pattern can reliably predict histology or malignancy. We therefore describe the ICG fluorescence pattern of our first 100 robot-assisted partial nephrectomies (RAPN) and correlate with histology.

Gas-containing renal stones: findings from five consecutive patients.

Objective: To describe the clinical course, microbiology, and metabolic findings of 5 patients presenting to our institution with gas-containing renal stones.

Materials And Methods: During a 20-month period beginning in 2009, 5 patients were identified by computed tomography scanning to harbor gas-containing renal calculi. Despite similar imaging and referral practice patterns, no such cases had been seen at our institution in the preceding 20 years.

Lower extremity neuropathy after robot assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and radical cystectomy.

Introduction: To describe the incidence and outcomes of lower extremity neuropathies in a series of robot assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALRP) and robot assisted laparoscopic radical cystectomy (RALRC) patients with 9 months follow up. Additionally, we compare this cohort to other published series of lithotomy based surgery and describe strategies for minimizing risk.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of 179 consecutive patients who underwent either RALRP or RALRC at a single institution during a 17 month period.

Penile sclerosing lipogranulomas and disfigurement from use of "1Super Extenze" among Laotian immigrants.

Introduction: Subcutaneous penile injection of various oils for penile augmentation has been described among men in Laos. We have now treated three Laotian immigrants with penile disfigurement secondary to sclerosing lipogranulomas, also known as paraffinoma, induced by injection of a mineral oil compound marketed as "1Super Extenze," which they purchased in the United States.

Aim: This series describes the clinical course and management of complications associated with the use of "1Super Extenze" in three Laotian men.

Cryoablation of small peripheral renal masses: a retrospective analysis.

Renal cryoablation is a minimally invasive, nephron-sparing option that has shown promise in the treatment of patients with solitary small renal lesions suspicious for malignancy. Few large clinical studies have used this promising technology, although intermediate-term data are encouraging. We present a retrospective review and report the outcomes of a large cohort of patients who underwent renal cryotherapy.