BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The incidence of ureteral injuries is on the rise. Endoscopic treatment of long distal ureteral strictures is associated with poor success rates, and open ureteral reimplantation is a potentially morbid surgical procedure. The objective of this study was to review our early results with laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation. METHODS Between May 2004 and February 2007,...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation is a feasible method for treating ureteral pathology with good preliminary results in the literature. In this study, we review medium term results for laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation and discuss current developments of this procedure. METHODS Medline and Embase databases were searched using relevant key terms to identify reports of paediatr...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the main post-traumatic complications of severe luxation and replanted teeth using clinical and radiographic analyses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty-three patients aged between 7 and 55 years old presenting 180 traumatized teeth that suffered extrusive luxation (n=67), lateral luxation (n=69), intrusive luxation (n=10) and tooth avulsion (n=34) followe...

INTRODUCTION Surgery for revision of cochlear implantation is an unusual but not uncommon occurrence. The purpose of this study was to discuss the major complications of cochlear implantation that we observed in 11out of 275 patients who underwent cochlear implantation in Khalili Hospital at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of 275patients w...

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a common problem in women. Successful treatment is now mid urethral sling but it would be a cause of urethral obstruction. In this case report, a 50 years old woman presented with a huge introitus mass after 3 months of midurethral sling. The mass protruded from the urethra and could not be reduced. Emergency MRI of pelvis was demonstrated prolapsed ureteroc...

Laparoscopic procedures have usually been employed as an alternative to open surgery for the management of several urologic problems. Laparoscopic ureteroneocystostomy is rarely reported despite the description of different techniques. Ramalingam et al. described a 3case series of successful laparoscopic Boari flap ureteral reimplantations. Gao el al. also described a 3-case series of laparosco...

Anomalous right coronary artery (ARCA) from left sinus of Valsalva could present in several forms either being intramural or extramural, and most occurring with separate ostium from left coronary system. ARCA originating from the left main coronary artery (LMCA) is very rare and treatments proposed for this type of anomaly are pulmonary artery translocation or coronary artery bypass grafting (C...

INTRODUCTION Retrograde ejaculation is not a recognized complication of ureteric reimplantation surgery. We describe this unusual complication in a 25-year-old man, with no other cause for his ejaculatory dysfunction. CASE PRESENTATION A 25-year-old Caucasian man presented with left hydronephrosis ascribed to a megaureter. Following open reimplantation of the ureter, the patient developed ret...