Background: An intrauterine device is commonly used for contraception globally. Although intrauterine device placement is an effective and safe method of contraception, migration into the bladder with stone formation is a rare and serious complication. The management approaches for an intrauterine device embedded in the bladder include endoscopic procedures and open surgical removal. In this st...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic sphincterotomy has been shown to inhibit stone formation in the gall bladder of experimental animals. AIMS To investigate the alterations in bile composition and gall bladder motility after endoscopic sphincterotomy. PATIENTS A study was performed of gall bladder bile composition and gall bladder motility in patients with gallstone disease ((n = 20; age 40-60 years, me...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Inadvertent bladder injury is a potential complication of various urological and pelvic surgeries. Bladder injury can also be a complication of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). The aim of this study was to test the feasibility of a NOTES approach to repair bladder lacerations in a blinded porcine study. METHODS Intentional bladder lacerations...

I read the article by Mannan et al with great interest.(1) The authors have presented several interesting cases from Pakistan regarding foreign bodies in the bladder, which is a significant contribution to the literature. However, there were no cases of polypyroplene suture encrustation in bladder in the series. We would like to report a rare case from Turkey, in which a bladder stone was forme...

PURPOSE Edwin Beer introduced the first endoscopic treatment of papillary bladder tumors in 1910. This historical review describes how his landmark discovery paved the way for office cystodiathermy to treat recurrent papillary tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical writings of Edwin Beer and all studies pertaining to the treatment of papillary bladder tumors from 1879 to the present were r...

A 30-year-old female was admitted in emergency with acute urinary retention due to bladder tumour prolapsed from the external urethral orifice. The patient underwent immediate endoscopic surgery via suprapubic percutaneous approach. The histological examination confirmed a superficial highly differentiated transitional cell bladder carcinoma. During the 6-year follow-up no evidence of local rec...

INTRODUCTION The standard treatment for upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (UUT-TCC) is open radical nephroureterectomy with excision of a bladder cuff. We assess the successful endoscopic completion and oncological efficacy of the various minimally invasive transurethral techniques devised for the management of the intramural ureter during nephroureterectomy. MATERIALS AND METHO...

Endoscopic operation of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) has several advantages such as less invasiveness and technical ease with the procedure and shorter hospitalization for the operation in comparison with coeliotomy, but the cure rate achieved by endoscopic operation compares unfavorably with that by coeliotomy. The unsuccessful cases of VUR by endoscopic operation were investigated to promote t...

Bladder tumour, especially urothelial neoplasm, is a very rare condition in paediatric age. That why true and accurate information on biological grade of malignancy and, correspondingly, the surgical management absent. However, majority physicians take view that this type tumour has low malignization recurrence, even after endoscopic excision neoplasm patients. Purpose - to describe clinical ca...

ntroduction. Bladder neck stenosis (BNS) is one of the most formidable and difficult to correct complications transurethral surgical interventions on prostate. Despite significant progress in endourology abundance new technological solutions used surgery, results endoscopic correction BNS are still unsatisfactory. One methods recurrent robot-assisted YV-plastic surgery BNS. Materials methods. F...