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...

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...

PURPOSE To assess the effect of surgeon experience and technical modifications on functional and oncologic outcomes after robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP). PATIENTS AND METHODS Data were available for 1181 of 1420 consecutive patients undergoing RALP by a single surgeon (DBS). Three techniques were evaluated. The "initial" technique included incision of the lateral endopelvic ...

PURPOSE The indication for surgery in locally advanced prostate cancer is growing considering and long-term follow-up shows that 60-80% of patients can be free of clinical recurrence. The aim of this video is demonstrate the modifications in traditional laparoscopic surgery that permit to observe the oncological principles reproducing open surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 55 years-old male pr...

PURPOSE Decision making regarding the urethra before and after radical cystectomy due to urothelial carcinoma has always been controversial. To determine whether anterior urethra sparing cystoprostatectomy for bladder cancer is an oncologically-safe procedure, we evaluated the long-term oncologic clinical outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 51 male patients with cTa-4N0-2M0 bladder cance...

the use of bovine amnion in the urinary tract for reconstructive purposes following ablative surgery in cases of trauma, cancer or infection is now a common practice in urological surgery. to evaluate urinary bladder reconstruction with bovine amniotic membrane (bam), ten healthy mongrel dogs of either sex weighing 10-40 kg were used. the animals were randomly divided into two groups of five an...