To describe the technical evolution and perioperative outcomes of vesicourethral anastomosis (VUA) in transvesical (TV) single-port robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (SP-RARP). A retrospective review was performed on 189 patients who underwent T...
Urethral diverticula are rare in children, especially in the absence of trauma. We present a case of a 9-year-old girl with pain with micturition, incontinence, and recurrent urinary tract infections. Diagnosis of urethral diverticulum was made by ma...
INTRODUCTION: The plate objective scoring tool (POST) was recently introduced as a reproducible and precise approach to quantifying urethral plate (UP) characteristics and guide to selecting particular surgical techniques. However, defining the landm...
BACKGROUND: The prostatic urethra (PU) is conventionally resected during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RALP). Recent studies demonstrated the feasibility of the extended PU preservation (EPUP).
In urethra-sparing radiation therapy, prostatic urinary tract visualization is important in decreasing the urinary side effect. A methodology has been developed to visualize the prostatic urinary tract using post-urination magnetic resonance imaging ...
BACKGROUND: Urinary incontinence is a common postoperative complication of radical prostatectomy (RP). In order to improve postoperative urinary continence rate, we proposed a urethral reconstruction technique which can prevent functional urethra ret...
INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: A 31-year-old patient with a history of fetal sacrococcygeal teratoma requiring tumor resection and pelvic reconstruction in infancy presented with a 3-year history of recurrent vulvar abscesses and voiding dysfunction. M...
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