OBJECTIVE Demonstration of surgical steps of a Boari Flap ureteroneocystostomy in an oncological context. METHODS Clinical case of a 66-year-old woman diagnosed with a left-pelvic recurrence of a high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma, involving the left ureter. After transection of 5cm of ureteral length, up to the level of the bifurcation of common iliac vessels, it was decided to perform a Bo...

OBJECTIVE The placement of indwelling ureteral catheters during colorectal surgery has been recommended for prevention of ureteral injuries. With the advent of laparoscopic colectomy (LCo), the role of preoperative placement of lighted ureteral stents (LUS) has also become commonplace. We sought to evaluate the value of lighted ureteral stent placement in laparoscopic colectomy. METHODS Sixty...

Endoscopic treatment for vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) has become an established alternative to long-term antibiotic prophylaxis and ureteral reimplantation. We present the outcome of endoscopic treatment with dextranomer/hyaluronic acid copolymer (Deflux) for VUR in children by a single surgeon at our institute from October 2003 to October 2009. We reviewed the cases of 150 patients (total 239 u...

OBJECTIVES Vesicoureteric reflux (VUR) is a common cause of urinary tract infections in children, being less commonly diagnosed in adults. Several anti-reflux plasties have been used successfully for the treatment of such condition, such as Politano-Leadbetter, Cohen and Gregoir-Lich techniques, the latter being our preferred approach in open procedures. Here we describe our experience with lap...

Duplication anomalies are quite common with ureteral duplication anomalies being the most frequent. Despite the relatively frequent incidence of a horseshoe kidney and duplication anomalies in any individual patient, the combination of horseshoe kidney and bilateral ureteric duplication is a very rare entity and very few cases have been reported to date. We present a case of a patient with nove...

a prospective study during 1990-1995 was conducted to assess the risk of rejection and infection in kidney-transplant recipients, who's original kidney had vesico-ureteral reflux (ver). two groups of recipients with and without ver were followed for one month after transplant 24 and 250 cases respectively. the calculated relative risks for the effect of ver showed a moderate increased risk...

RET, a tyrosine kinase receptor essential for kidney development, has recently been shown to be important for the formation of the urinary tract. When RET is overexpressed in the HoxB7/Ret transgenic mouse, kidneys are small and cystic, and in some of the mice, the ureters are grossly dilated. Here, we report that the observed ureteral dilatation is associated with the urinary tract abnormality...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present paper was to evaluate the clinical features of primary vesico-ureteral reflux (VUR) in Thai children. METHODS Children with primary VUR attending in the Nephrology Division, Department of Pediatrics, Prince of Songkla University between 1987-2002 were studied. RESULTS Sixty-five girls and 60 boys with primary VUR were evaluated. Age of diagnosis was sig...