Urology

Effect of Postoperative Pain Management after Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy: A Study on Reducing Hospital Length of Stay and Medical Costs Using Japanese Nationwide Database.

Prostate cancer has a high incidence rate. Many articles reported its usefulness with the advent of robotic surgery in 2001. However, epidural analgesia is declining due to the spread of minimally invasive treatment. There have been no studies using nationwide databases on the impact of epidural analgesia use on length of hospital stay and medical costs. Therefore, we used a Japanese national inpa...

Pulse Sequence Dependence of a Simple and Interpretable Deep Learning Method for Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer Using Multiparametric MRI.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is increasingly used for risk stratification and localization of prostate cancer (PCa). Thanks to the great success of deep learning models in computer vision, the potential application for early detection of PCa using mpMRI is imminent.

Re: Hilda A. de Barros, Matthias N. van Oosterom, Maarten L. Donswijk, et al. Robot-assisted Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen-radioguided Salvage Surgery in Recurrent Prostate Cancer Using a DROP-IN Gamma Probe: The First Prospective Feasibility Study. Eur Urol 2022;82:97-105.

Machine Learning Diffusion Monte Carlo Energies.

We present two machine learning methodologies that are capable of predicting diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) energies with small data sets (≈60 DMC calcul...

Financial Toxicity After Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy and Its Relation with Oncologic, Functional Outcomes.

PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to evaluate frequency of financial toxicity among patients who underwent robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for pr...

Volume-outcome relationship in intra-abdominal robotic-assisted surgery: a systematic review.

As robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) expands to smaller centres, platforms are shared between specialities. Healthcare providers must consider case volum...

Comparison of single-port and multi-port Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

Dissemination of robotic surgical technology for robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) has yielded advancements including the Retzius-spari...

Positive surgical margin's impact on short-term oncological prognosis after robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (MARGINS study: UroCCR no 96).

The oncological impact of positive surgical margins (PSM) after robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) is still under debate. We compared PSM and N...

Improving the Reliability of Scale-Free Image Morphometrics in Applications with Minimally Restrained Livestock Using Projective Geometry and Unsupervised Machine Learning.

Advances in neural networks have garnered growing interest in applications of machine vision in livestock management, but simpler landmark-based appro...

Video labelling robot-assisted radical prostatectomy and the role of artificial intelligence (AI): training a novice.

Video labelling is the assigning of meaningful information to raw videos. With the evolution of artificial intelligence and its intended incorporation...

Intraoperative angiography of the neurovascular bundle using indocyanine green and near-infrared fluorescence improves anatomical dissection during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: initial clinical experience.

Landmark artery identification in the neurovascular bundle (NVB) is important for nerve-sparing in radical prostatectomy. We aimed to investigate intr...

Long-term comparative outcome analysis of a robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy with retropubic radical prostatectomy by a single surgeon.

We aimed to report a comprehensive outcome analysis of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomies (RALP) performed by a single surgeon and compared i...

Urologic latency time during uroflow stop test with electromyography: an incontinence detector in rehabilitation after robotic radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Stress urinary incontinence (UI) is the most common presentation following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), but a postoperativ...

Clinical significance of limited and extended pelvic lymph node dissection during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for patients with localized prostate cancer: A retrospective, propensity score matching analysis.

OBJECTIVES: We investigated the diagnostic and therapeutic benefits of limited or extended pelvic lymph node dissection during a robot-assisted radica...

Simplified approach to the medial internal iliac region using a uretero-hypogastric nerve fascia development procedure for extended pelvic lymph node dissection during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer.

INTRODUCTION: Although several clinical guidelines for prostate cancer (PC) recommend extended pelvic lymph node dissection (ePLND) during radical pro...

Prediction of recovery time of urinary incontinence following robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

OBJECTIVES: Postoperative urinary incontinence recovery following robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy is an important outcome. We investigated w...

Predicting risk of sepsis, comparison between machine learning methods: a case study of a Virginia hospital.

Sepsis is an inflammation caused by the body's systemic response to an infection. The infection could be a result of many diseases, such as pneumonia,...

3Ddose verification in prostate proton therapy with deep learning-based proton-acoustic imaging.

Dose delivery uncertainty is a major concern in proton therapy, adversely affecting the treatment precision and outcome. Recently, a promising techniq...

A nomogram to predict pathologic T2 stage in candidates to robot-assisted radical prostatectomy with iT3 prostate cancer on preoperative multiparametric MRI: results from a multi-institutional collaboration.

In candidates to robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) for locally advanced (iT3) prostate cancer on preoperative MRI, the performance of MRI fo...

Robotic ureteral reimplantation and uretero-ureterostomy treating the ureterovesical junction pathologies in children: technical considerations and preliminary results.

Robot-assisted laparoscopic extravesical ureteral reimplantation (RALUR) and robotic ureteroureterostomy (RUU) are two mini-invasive surgical techniqu...