Publications by authors named "W H Cerwinka"
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- Primary valve ablation is favored over vesicostomy for treating posterior urethral valves in neonates; this study explores a preoperative catheter regimen to improve ablation potential.
- A review of 126 cases showed a 97% success rate for ablation, highlighting that a larger catheter size at the time of surgery is more crucial than the baby's weight or urethral dilation levels.
- The study indicates that while progressive urethral dilation can increase the risk of infections, it remains necessary to ensure successful ablation, suggesting catheter sizing is vital for operative planning.
Introduction: and Objective: Health literacy is defined as the ability to obtain, integrate, and appraise health-related knowledge. It is known to correlate with disparities in clinical outcomes in adults with chronic disease. Patients with spina bifida represent a potentially vulnerable cohort as they often have multiple comorbidities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: There are no guidelines for opioid use after pediatric urologic surgery, and it is unknown to what extent prescriptions written for these patients may be contributing to the opioid epidemic in the United States. We sought to characterize opioid utilization in a prospective fashion following outpatient pediatric urologic surgery at our institution.
Materials And Methods: After obtainingapproval from the Institutional Review Board, we prospectively recruited pediatric patients undergoing outpatient urologic surgery.
Large-cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumor (LCCSCT) of the testis is an exceptionally rare lesion, found sparsely in any medical literature. There is a correlation between this entity and Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and Carney complex (40% of tumors). The remaining 60% of tumors are sporadic.
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