BACKGROUND Posterior urethral valve (PUV) is life-threatening congenital anomaly of the urinary tract that results in vesicoureteric reflux, recurrent UTI, voiding dysfunction and renal insufficiency if not treat timely. Endoscopic ablation of posterior urethral valves using cold knife or laser is the current gold standard therapy. Many urologists go for repeat cystoscopy to see residual valve ...

Occult bladder injury may sometimes go unrecognized during tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedures. We report a case of occult intraperitoneal bladder injury that occurred during a TVT procedure. There was no sign of bladder perforation on the initial cystoscopy, which was performed just after the insertion of the trocar. Signs of general peritonitis appeared after the patient started to voi...

During the last few years I have had several opportunities of testing the value of cystoscopy in both sexes, and of cathe-terization of the ureters in the female. The manipulations are often somewhat delicate and require considerable patience; but once the preliminary difficulties are surmounted, diagnoses may be arrived at which would be otherwise impossible. A reference to the table at the en...

Single system orthotopic ureteroceles often present in adulthood are associated with characteristic radiographic findings. We present the case of a 54 year old woman with 8 months of urgency/frequency and pelvic pain that has the cystoscopic appearance of a bladder tumor. Cystoscopic images, radiographs and intraoperative photos demonstrate the work-up, evaluation, and treatment of this unique ...

INTRODUCTION Flexible cystoscopy is a diagnostic procedure usually performed under local anesthesia and has been used in the outpatient setting since the 1980s. METHODS We performed an electronic search of MEDLINE(®) and the Cochrane Central Search Library between 1990 and 2010. Duplicate references were removed. One reviewer extracted the publications relevant to general clinical practice. ...

We consider dynamic scenes consisting of moving points whose motion is constrained to happen in one of a pencil of planes. This is for example the case when rigid objects move independently, but on a common ground plane (each point moves in one of a pencil of planes parallel to the ground plane). We consider stereo pairs of the dynamic scene, taken by a moving stereo system, that allow to obtai...

conclusions nbi cystoscopy improved the detection rate. although false positives were more common with nbi, this was not statistically significant. nbi found additional aggressive tumors, which underscores the impact of detection in eortc recurrence risk scoring. results fifty patients, aged 63.86 ± 10.05 years, were enrolled. the overall detection rate was 98.9% for nbi vs. 89.4% for wli (p = ...

PURPOSE We assessed the impact of hexaminolevulinate fluorescence cystoscopic detection of papillary, nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer on the long-term recurrence rate. MATERIALS AND METHODS Long-term followup was assessed in 551 participants enrolled in a prospective, randomized study of fluorescence cystoscopy for Ta or T1 urothelial bladder cancer. In the original study 280 patients in th...