With the increasing cesarean section rates gynecologists are facing more number of cases with previously scarred uterus at the time of hysterectomy. Uterine incision especially of cesarean section leads to bladder adhesions which poses great problem at the time of bladder dissection during hysterectomy and sometimes inadvertently ends up in cystostomy. Greater the number of cesareans, higher is...

A 31-year-old man was referred for further management of a urethral stricture. He was a victim of a traffic accident and his urethral injury was associated with a pelvic bone fracture. He had previously undergone a suprapubic cystostomy only owing to his unstable general condition at another hospital. After 3 months of urethral injury, direct urethral anastomosis was attempted, but the surgery ...

A 20 year old Turkish man presented with a one year history of weight loss and epigastric pain. Pancreatitis was confirmed with hyperamylasaemia. CT scanning of the pancreas revealed a complex pseudo-cyst and ERCP demonstrated a pancreatic duct stricture. Hydatid disease was suggested on Ultrasound scan but serological tests were negative. After ERCP the patient deteriorated with sepsis and thi...

Introduction: Indwelling urinary catheters cause a variety of complications including infections, pain and bleeding. Sometimes, the catheter becomes encrusted and blocked. Case Report: A 66-year-old male was presented with increasing suprapubic pain for about two months because of a poorly draining Foley catheter. Two years earlier, the patient had undergone a transurethral resection of the pro...

A bucket-type transpelvic socket was fabricated for a man with paraplegia from spinal cord injury, who underwent right partial pelvic amputation and left hip disarticulation. His main problem was inability to sit due to asymmetrical pelvic shape. We prescribed a transpelvic prosthetic socket to enable him to sit again. The socket consisted of a dual structure: a hard frame and soft liner. The m...

Abstract The odontogenic keratocyst (OKC) is a benign but locally aggressive growing lesion that infiltrates the bone and surrounding tissue. It characterized by high rates of recurrence along with rapid growth. Different forms partly successful treatment therapies are reported. retrospective study at hand examined 114 patients OKC treated over period 20 years. Data extracted includes gender, a...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aju.2016.03.001 2090-598X 2016 Arab Association of Urology. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). This paper by Elshal et al. [1] addresses one of the main difficulties that face surgeons during a holmium laser enucleation of the prostate. Unfortunately...

Tumors and cystic lesions of the jawbones have been described since the late 1600s and it took another 200 years for classification systems to appear in the medical, surgical, and dental literatures. In the late 1800s, Carl Partsch introduced cystostomy, a method by which the cyst is converted into a pouch by suturing its lining to the mucosa of the oral cavity. The purpose of this article is t...