Urology

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

OBJECTIVES: To assess the clinical performance of robotic-assisted infra-renal aortic lymphadenectomy (IRL) using a single center-docked approach for patients with endometrial cancer.

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 disabling pelvic congestion syndrome. She was given the minimally invasive treatment of left renal vein transposition with the Da Vinci(®) robotic system (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA), followed the next day by a gonadal vein and pelvic varicose embolization using a robotic intraluminal navigati...

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 fineness or Blaine. Despite the growing use of vertic...

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 (AA) men with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa) using ...

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 pT3 disease at robot-assisted radical prostatectom...

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 urinary continence after robot-assisted laparoscopic...

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 localized prostate cancer are presenting as candidates ...

Prostate cancer: Towards mechanical distinction of tissues during MIRP.

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

The indication for use of laparoscopy, in the pediatric population, was initially for diagnostic purposes. As confidence with the technology and utili...

Minimally invasive pediatric urologic surgery.

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 of these shape-based methods are computationally e...

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 patients, and to develop a risk stratification mo...

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

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare resident, fellow, and attending urologic and gynecologic surgeons' musculoskeletal and mental strain during laparoscopic a...

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 despite a lack of randomised trials showing its superi...

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 manual template for in-bore 3T transperineal magneti...

A novel robotic platform for laser-assisted transurethral surgery of the prostate.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common pathology afflicting ageing men. The gold standard for the surgical treatment of BPH is transure...

Anatomical dimensions using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging: impact on the learning curve of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of anatomical dimensions as measured using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging on the outcomes of robot-assisted...

A data-driven approach to prostate cancer detection from dynamic contrast enhanced MRI.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) imaging, has shown great potential in prostate cancer diagnosis and sta...

Ocular complications in robotic-assisted prostatectomy: a review of pathophysiology and prevention.

Ocular complications reported after robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) include corneal abrasion and ischemic optic neuropathy....

Procalcitonin Strip Test as an Independent Predictor in Acute Pancreatitis.

Plasma procalcitonin (PCT) is a highly specific marker for the diagnosis of bacterial infection and sepsis. Studies have demonstrated its role in the ...