Publications by authors named "Yi-Sheng Tai"
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak can be spontaneous or nonspontaneous. The management options include conservative treatments, blood patch, and surgical repairs. We compared clinical symptoms, image findings, management options, hospitalization, and relapse rates among different causes of CSF leaks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of tumor location on oncologic outcomes in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) stratified according to pathologic stage.
Material And Methods: Between January 1996 and March 2009, 503 patients with UTUC were enrolled who had undergone radical nephroureterectomies and had no nodal or distal metastases. Preoperative chemotherapy or radiation therapy was not administered to any study patient.
Purpose: To evaluate the oncological outcomes and complications of patients with saturated prostate cryoablation.
Methods: A cohort of 208 patients cumulatively treated between June 2008 and December 2012 qualified for study inclusion, each undergoing total-gland cryoablation for prostate cancer. The degree of saturated prostate cryoablation was defined as the average prostate volume per cryoprobe (APVC), and divided into four groups (groups 1-4: <3 ml, 3 to <4 ml, 4 to <5 ml, ≧5 ml, respectively).
Background: The association of diabetes mellitus and bladder cancer recurrence following radical nephroureterectomies (RNUs) in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) was investigated.
Methods: Between January 1996 and March 2009, 538 patients with UTUC who received RNU and had no previous bladder cancer histories were enrolled. The clinicopathological characteristics were obtained and used for the analysis of metachronous bladder recurrence by using Cox proportional hazard model.