Urology

Robot-assisted laparoscopic approach for artificial urinary sphincter implantation in 11 women with urinary stress incontinence: surgical technique and initial experience.

BACKGROUND: Artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) implantation is recommended for women suffering urina...

Application of a two-stage fuzzy neural network to a prostate cancer prognosis system.

OBJECTIVE: This study intends to develop a two-stage fuzzy neural network (FNN) for prognoses of pro...

Robotic transperitoneal infra-renal aortic lymphadenectomy in early-stage endometrial cancer.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the clinical performance of robotic-assisted infra-renal aortic lymphadenectom...

Associated Da Vinci and magellan robotic systems for successful treatment of nutcracker syndrome.

Here, we report the case of a 26-year-old woman suffering from nutcracker syndrome with concurrent d...

Online monitoring and control of particle size in the grinding process using least square support vector regression and resilient back propagation neural network.

Particle size soft sensing in cement mills will be largely helpful in maintaining desired cement fin...

African-American Men with Low-Risk Prostate Cancer: Modern Treatment and Outcome Trends.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical characteristics and treatment patterns for African-American (...

Positive Surgical Margin Trends in Patients with Pathologic T3 Prostate Cancer Treated with Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

INTRODUCTION: We analyzed the trends of positive surgical margin (PSM) location in patients who had ...

Factors Contributing to Early Recovery of Urinary Continence Analyzed by Pre- and Postoperative Pelvic Anatomical Features at Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study is to elucidate factors contributing to early recovery of ur...

Re: Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: combining the best of retropubic and perineal approaches.

Outcomes of Extraperitoneal Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy in the Morbidly Obese: A Propensity Score-Matched Study.

INTRODUCTION: An increasing number of obese patients (body mass index [BMI] >30 kg/m(2)]) with local...

Editorial comment to Prediction of biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: analysis of 784 Japanese patients.

Prostate cancer: Towards mechanical distinction of tissues during MIRP.

Minimally invasive pediatric urologic surgery.

Laparoscopic nephrectomy and partial nephrectomy: intraperitoneal, retroperitoneal, single site.

The indication for use of laparoscopy, in the pediatric population, was initially for diagnostic pur...

Re: Can selective arterial clamping with fluorescence imaging preserve kidney function during robotic partial nephrectomy?

Selective invocation of shape priors for deformable segmentation and morphologic classification of prostate cancer tissue microarrays.

Shape based active contours have emerged as a natural solution to overlap resolution. However, most ...

Improving the evidence for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Prediction of biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: analysis of 784 Japanese patients.

OBJECTIVES: To examine biochemical recurrence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in Japanese...

Comparison of postural ergonomics between laparoscopic and robotic sacrocolpopexy: a pilot study.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare resident, fellow, and attending urologic and gynecologic surgeons' muscu...

Short-term results after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy compared to open radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy has become a widespread technique desp...

3T MR-guided in-bore transperineal prostate biopsy: A comparison of robotic and manual needle-guidance templates.

PURPOSE: To demonstrate the utility of a robotic needle-guidance template device as compared to a ma...