INTRODUCTION Open prostatectomy is the conventional surgical treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. The major early complication of this procedure is bleeding. We introduce a technique of prostatectomy in order to prevent significant bleeding, reduce morbidity, and shorten convalescence and hospital stay periods. MATERIALS AND METHODS We enrolled 202 consecutive patients diagnosed with be...

Introduction There is contradictory evidence in literature with respect to the association of asymptomatic prostatic inflammation on biopsy with complications of Transurethral Resection of Prostate. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the association of prostatitis in biopsy specimens of patients undergoing transurethral resection of prostate with bladder neck contracture (the primary ...

Seventy-nine patients of bladder neck suspension using an extraperitoneal variation of laparoscopic surgery were performed for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. Using a balloon dissector the anterior vesical pelvic space is secured. The bladder neck suspension similar to the Burch operation was performed through a laparoscopic procedure. Symptoms of patients were assessed preoperati...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated cervical lymph node metastases at level IIb in cases of hypopharyngeal cancer and analyzed the possibility of preservation of level IIb during neck dissection. METHODS In total, 34 patients (51 neck sides) with hypopharyngeal cancer that underwent neck dissection from April 2008 to April 2011 were retrospectively analyzed. We evaluated the distribution of metas...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influence of preservation of the muscular internal sphincter and proximal urethra on continence recovery after radical prostatectomy (RP). MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty-five consecutive patients with organ confined prostate cancer were submitted to RP with the preservation of muscular internal sphincter and the proximal urethra (group 1) and compared to 55 patients sub...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to review and assess the safety of carrying out transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) and transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT) simultaneously, in men who require TURP for bladder outflow obstruction and are incidentally found to have a transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. METHODS A detailed Medline search between 1966 and 2005 identified onl...

The role of radiotherapy (RT) in the treatment of urinary bladder cancer has undergone several modifications along the last decades. In the beginning, definitive RT was used as treatment in an attempt to preserve the urinary bladder; however, the results were poor compared to those of radical surgery. Recently, many protocols have been developed supporting the use of multi-modality therapy, and...

OBJECTIVE To review the results of bladder-neck reconstruction in patients with repaired bladder exstrophy and pubic diastasis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Nine girls (mean age 7 years, range 4-17) and four boys (mean age 9 years, range 5-15) underwent a modified Young-Dees-Leadbetter bladder-neck reconstruction with augmentation cystoplasty (YDL-C). The patients were reviewed retrospectively (follo...

OBJECTIVE To review the management of major urethral injury in three girls with fractured pelvis following blunt abdominal trauma. PATIENTS AND METHODS Three girls aged 5 years, 1 year and 3 years sustained major urethral injury in association with fractured pelvis following blunt abdominal trauma. Initial management was undertaken elsewhere. Two girls, with complete loss of the urethra and a...