Purpose: To present our experience of laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation using intracorporeal ureteral tapering for management of distal ureteral stricture. Materials and Methods: Between April 2005 and October 2008, six patients, including 3 children and 3 adults, underwent laparoscopic modified Lich-Gregoir type extravesical ureteral reimplantation for distal ureteral stricture. Significant...

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of laparoscopic simple prostatectomy for large volume prostates. Materials and Methods: Between October 2007 and July 2009, laparoscopic simple prostatectomy was performed on 16 patients with the prostates over 80 mL. All the patients were operated with transvesical method. Peri-operative and 3rd postoperative month data were recorded and evaluated. Results:...

1Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen MC, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2Department of Urology, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal 3Department of Continence Medicine, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan 4Department of Urology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 SouthWood Street, Chicago, ...

Pradeep TYAGI,1∗ Yao-Chi CHUANG,2 Naoki YOSHIMURA,3 Jonathan KAUFMANN,4 and Michael B. CHANCELLOR1 1Department of Urology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A., 2Department of Urology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taiwan, 3Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., ...

Address correspondence to Dr. Harold A. Frazier II, Department of Urology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA NSQIP and urology outcomes Harold A. Frazier, II, MD Department of Urology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA Referring to the article publishe...

a Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Medical Faculty, Department of Urology, Canakkale, Turkey b Inönü University, Medical Faculty, Department of Urology, Malatya, Turkey c Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Medical Faculty, Department of Children Disease, Canakkale, Turkey d Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Medical Faculty, Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Canakkale, Turkey e Canakkal...

Serge P Marinkovic director of urology and female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery , Eric S Rovner professor of urology , Robert M Moldwin associate professor of clinical urology, director of the Interstitial Cystitis Center , Stuart L Stanton professor emeritus of urogynaecology , Lisa M Gillen independent researcher and writer , Christina MMarinkovic clinical director of nursing ser...

1. Department of Urology, Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden 2. Department of Urology, Hospital Motol and 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 3. Saarland University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany 4. Department of Onco-Urology, Institut Universitaire du Cancer, Toulouse, France 5. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Hou...

Koichi Sugimoto1,2 Nobutaka Shimizu1 Takashi Oki2 Kazuhiro Nose2 Tsukasa Nishioka2 Shogo Adomi3 Takayuki Ohzeki3 Atsunobu Esa3 Hirotsugu Uemura1 1Department of Urology, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, OsakaSayama, Osaka, Japan; 2Department of Urology, Sakai Hospital Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Sakai, Osaka, Japan; 3Department of Urology, NTT West Osaka Hospital, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

PURPOSE To compare the accuracy of estimating prostatic volume with digital rectal examination (DRE) by urological staffs with different experiences. Measurement of prostatic volume with transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) serves as the reference standard. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-nine consecutive male patients admitted with acute urinary retention had their prostatic volume estimated with...