A 10-year-old Chicago girl born with an abnormally small bladder that made her incontinent has become the first patient to benefit from a new robotic-assisted bladder-reconstruction procedure. The ...

Bladder neck contracture (BNC) represents a significant complication following various prostate surgeries, including radical prostatectomy and transurethral procedures. This condition involves the ...

Surgery to treat bladder cancer has been enhanced by minimally invasive techniques that continue to evolve with advances in technology. Minimally invasive procedures use keyhole-size incisions that ...

In a breakthrough that moves treatment from repeated stop-gap procedures to a permanent cure, Hamad Medical Corporation has carried out Qatar’s first robotic bilateral ureteric reimplantation, giving ...

Radical prostatectomy remains the gold-standard treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer. Although cancer control is the primary goal, secondary outcomes such as continence recovery are of ...

A series of pre-clinical studies provide important first steps in developing techniques of robotic bladder transplantation in humans, as reported in the October issue of The Journal of Urology ®, an ...

Robot-assisted surgery used to perform bladder cancer removal and reconstruction enables patients to recover far more quickly and spend significantly (20 per cent) less time in hospital, concludes a ...

Staged reconstruction repair of bladder exstrophy results in hydronephrosis or renal scarring in 15-25% of patients. A cosmetically acceptable and functional phallus can be achieved in 85% of patients ...

IN the recent literature considerable attention has been paid to recognition and management of obstructions at the bladder neck in children. This condition is relatively uncommon when compared to the ...