Urology

Robot-assisted laparoscopic management of duplex renal anomaly: Comparison of surgical outcomes to traditional pure laparoscopic and open surgery.

INTRODUCTION: Surgical management of duplex renal anomaly (DRA) is complex because of individual ana...

Toward teleoperated needle steering under continuous MRI guidance for prostate percutaneous interventions.

BACKGROUND: To propose a human-operated in-room master-slave bevel-tip needle steering system under ...

Identifying relevant group of miRNAs in cancer using fuzzy mutual information.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) act as a major biomarker of cancer. All miRNAs in human body are not equally impo...

Identification of Risk Factors for Initial Elevated Vancomyin Trough Concentrations.

Recent literature suggests that elevated vancomycin trough concentrations (>20 µg/mL) may be associ...

Medium-Term Renal Function in a Large Cohort of Stable Kidney Transplant Recipients Converted From Twice-Daily to Once-Daily Tacrolimus.

BACKGROUND: There is some evidence pointing toward better renal function in kidney transplant recipi...

Uroflow Stop Test and Potency Recovery: A Surrogate for Pelvic Floor Integrity Post Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy?

OBJECTIVE: To study the relation between uroflow Stop Test and early recovery of potency following r...

Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: Critical appraisal of the anatomic landmarks for a complete intrafascial approach.

To provide an overview of the anatomical landmarks needed to guide a retropubic (Retzius)-sparing ro...

A risk management model for familial breast cancer: A new application using Fuzzy Cognitive Map method.

Breast cancer is the most deadly disease affecting women and thus it is natural for women aged 40-49...

Computational Discrimination of Breast Cancer for Korean Women Based on Epidemiologic Data Only.

Breast cancer is the second leading cancer for Korean women and its incidence rate has been increasi...

Urinary Bother as a Predictor of Postsurgical Changes in Urinary Function After Robotic Radical Prostatectomy.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize changes in indices of urinary function in prostatectomy patients with pre...

A literature-driven method to calculate similarities among diseases.

BACKGROUND: "Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads and along these sympathetic fib...

Sexual and urinary functions after robot-assisted versus pure laparoscopic total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer.

Breast cancer detection and classification in digital mammography based on Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and Super Resolution.

Breast cancer is one of the most perilous diseases among women. Breast screening is a method of dete...

Respiratory gas exchange during robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy requires patients to be secured in a st...

Salvage robot assisted radical prostatectomy: A propensity matched study of perioperative, oncological and functional outcomes.

BACKGROUND: To report the perioperative, functional and oncological outcomes of salvage robot-assist...

Is peri-operative urethral catheter drainage enough? The case for stentless pediatric robotic pyeloplasty.

BACKGROUND: The necessity for urinary diversion with trans-anastomotic ureteral stenting during pyel...

Total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer with emphasis on pelvic autonomic nerve preservation: Expert technical tips for robotic surgery.

The primary goal of surgical intervention for rectal cancer is to achieve an oncologic cure while pr...

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Treatment by Transurethral Enucleation of the Prostate Using a 2-μm Laser.

This study investigates the efficacy of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) treatment by prostate tra...

Understanding safety-critical interactions with a home medical device through Distributed Cognition.

As healthcare shifts from the hospital to the home, it is becoming increasingly important to underst...

The impact of days off between cases on perioperative outcomes for robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

PURPOSE: To examine the effect of days off between cases on perioperative outcomes for robotic-assis...

Lack of association between anemia and renal disease progression in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.

AIMS/INTRODUCTION: Anemia has a close interaction with renal dysfunction in diabetes patients. More ...