Purpose: Pathology reviews for upper urinary tract cancer (UTUC) remained scarce in the literature. Here, we reported the interobserver variation among the review and local pathologies of featured histologic characteristics for UTUC.
Methods: Patients who underwent definitive surgical treatments for UTUC were retrospectively reviewed for eligibility of pathology review.
Objective: Long-term outcomes (especially mortality and/or major cardiovascular events (MACE)) of the unilateral primary aldosteronism (uPA) patients who underwent medical or surgery-targeted treatment, relative to those with essential hypertension (EH), have been scarcely reported.
Design And Settings: Using the prospectively designed observational Taiwan Primary Aldosteronism Investigation cohort, we identified 858 uPA cases among 1220 primary aldosteronism patients and another 1210 EH controls.
Exposures: Operated uPA patients were grouped via their 1-year post-therapy statuses.
Our aim was to analyze the clinical and survival differences among patients who underwent the two main treatment modalities, endoscopic ablation and radical nephroureterectomy. This study examined all patients who had undergone endoscopic management and RNU between Jul. 1988 and Mar.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Since the introduction of robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery, a variety of conventional laparoscopic procedures have been explored via this approach. In the robotic era, most of the reported robot-assisted laparoscopic hernia repairs were performed with the trans-abdominal pre-peritoneal approach. According to the evidence extrapolated from laparoscopic ventral hernia repair, simultaneous fascial defect closure and mesh repair can significantly decrease the risk of seroma formation and recurrence over those without fascial closure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of this study was to analyze patterns of sensory protein expression and urothelial dysfunction in ketamine-related cystitis (KC) in humans.
Methods: Biopsies of bladder mucosa were performed in 29 KC patients during cystoscopy. Then specimens were analyzed for tryptase, zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1), E-cadherin, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) with immunofluorescence staining and quantification.
Background: The purpose of the article is to report our long-term results of minilaparoscopic inguinal hernia repair in children.
Methods: Between September 2003 and September 2008, 161 children with inguinal hernia were treated with minilaparoscopic herniorrhaphy. The asymptomatic contralateral internal ring was routinely explored and repaired if a patent processus vaginalis of not less than 2 cm was noted.
Background: Retroperitoneoscopic lumbar sympathectomy is a safe and effective treatment for plantar hyperhidrosis.
Objective: To evaluate the safety and feasibility of laparoendoscopic single-site retroperitoneal lumbar sympathectomy in plantar hyperhidrosis.
Methods: Bilateral laparoendoscopic single-site retroperitoneal lumbar sympathectomy was performed in a 27-year-old man who suffered from excessive sweating from the soles of the feet.
Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech
February 2011
Background: Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) is a novel technique developed to reduce the port-related morbidities and improve the cosmetic outcomes of laparoscopic surgery. To date, no series of LESS inguinal hernia repair has been published or documented. This study aimed to determine the safety and feasibility of LESS technique for inguinal hernia repairs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A
April 2010
A 65-year-old female suffered from recurrent urinary tract infection and intermittent right-flank soreness when active. Serial renal ultrasonography and supine/erect intravenous (i.v.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A prospective clinical trial was designed to compare the midterm surgical and functional results between open (OR) and minilaparoscopic (MR) herniorrhaphy repairs for pediatric inguinal hernia.
Methods: Between May 2005 and May 2008, 174 children with inguinal hernias were prospectively enrolled for either open or minilaparoscopic hernia repair. Of these children, 65 underwent open herniorrhaphy and 109 underwent minilaparoscopic herniorrhaphy.
J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A
October 2008
Background: To validate its safety and efficacy, we evaluated our preliminary results of the three-port minilaparoscopic nerve-sparing extravesical ureteral reimplantation for patients with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR).
Methods: Between July 2005 and February 2007, 9 consecutive patients (4 girls and 5 boys) with a mean age of 3.4 years (range, 7 months to 5 years) underwent a minilaparoscopic nerve sparing extravesical ureteral reimplantation for VUR.
Background: This prospective, randomized, single-blind trial was to determine if local anesthesia or oral analgesics reduce postoperative pain after mini-laparoscopic functional surgery.
Methods: One hundred fifteen patients who underwent mini-laparoscopic herniorrhaphy or varicocelectomy were assigned randomly to receive wound infiltration with xylocaine, regular oral analgesics, or a placebo after the procedures. Visual analog pain scores owing to carbon-dioxide irritation and trocar wounds were recorded 2 hours, 1 day, and 1 week after surgery.
The anterior urethral valve (AUV) is a rare congenital urethral anomaly that can lead to variable urinary tract symptoms. We report on a 13-year-old boy with AUV who was referred from a primary care physician for nocturnal enuresis. AUV was disclosed by videourodynamic study and confirmed by simultaneous retrograde cystourethroscopy and antegrade urethroscopy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We designed a technique of pure minilaparoscopic hernia sac transaction and ligation to repair primary inguinal hernias in children and young adults.
Methods: Between September 2003 and December 2004, 83 patients with primary inguinal hernia were treated surgically with minilaparoscopic herniorrhaphy. The mean patient age was 6.
Purpose: We report a prospective randomized study comparing the effects of highly potent and moderately potent topical steroids in treating pediatric phimosis.
Materials And Methods: A total of 70 boys 1 to 12 years old with phimosis were randomly assigned to receive topical application of either betamethasone valerate 0.06% (a highly potent steroid) or clobetasone butyrate 0.