OBJECTIVE To evaluate the rate of intrinsic ureteral endometriosis in patients presenting with severe ureteral endometriosis. DESIGN Observational study between June 1992 and December 2007. SETTING University tertiary referral center. PATIENT(S) Twenty-nine patients presenting deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) with severe ureteral endometriosis. Severe ureteral endometriosis was def...

From July, 1987 to Oct, 1989 , 104 patients underwent 111 transurethral ureteroscopy procedures at the Air Force Medical Center. All intramural ureters were dilated by flexible metal dilators. The overall success rate for ureteral stone removal was 95.8 per cent. Ureteroscopy was done for evaluation of gross hematuria, strictures, ureteral stent, and ureteral and pyelocalyceal tumors. The ...

30 cases of obstructing proximal ureteral stones at the level of L3-L5 which could not be pushed back into the pelvis and passed by a guide wire under epidural anesthesia, were removed percutaneously with the rigid ureteroscope. Multiple stones in one ureter, bilateral ureteral stones and a ureteral stone of a solitary kidney were removed successfully in one session showing the reliability...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate predictive factors for retrograde ureteral stent failure in patients with non-urological malignant ureteral obstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 2005 and 2014, medical records of 284 malignant ureteral obstruction patients with 712 retrograde ureteral stent trials including 63 (22.2%) having bilateral malignant ureteral obstruction were retrospectively reviewed. Re...

In patients who have antibiotic-loaded cement hip spacers in the interim period, the correct diagnosis of infection eradication is the major determinant before reimplantation arthroplasty. Diagnosis is usually based on clinical findings and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels. However, diagnosis can be challenging when the clinical findings are normal but the CRP level is high. From March 200...

OBJECTIVE To find if patients experiencing postsurgical facial nerve stimulation caused by underlying disease process (ie, otosclerosis) can improve their hearing performance with their cochlear implant by reimplantation and by an optimal programming strategy. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Academic tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Two cochlear otosclerosis patients with resista...

BACKGROUND Reimplantation and remodeling procedure are two different techniques for valve-sparing aortic root surgery. A number of comparative series have been published but, to date, there has been no meta-analysis comparing outcomes following the two techniques. METHODS This meta-analysis was performed in accordance with the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews. A public domain database...