Pelvic Surgery

Pelvic Surgery

The present issue of the International Journal of Surgical Oncology on Pelvic Surgery contains a series of articles on prostate cancer, gynecologic malignancies, and rectal cancer. The article on " radical prostatectomy as a first-line treatment in patients with initial PSA >20 ng/mL " by Hinev et al. reports on patients diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa) and PSA >20 ng/mL. The elevated PSA l...

Bloodless Pelvic Fracture Surgery

Vertebral compression fractures are the most common fractures associated with osteoporosis. Approximately 700,000 osteoporosis-related vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs) occur each year in the U.S. Currently, treatment is focused primarily on prevention. When fractures occur in patients with osteoporosis, treatment options are limited to bed rest and pain medications because open surgery w...

Femoral neuropathy after pelvic surgery.

Femoral neuropathy is an uncommon complication following pelvic surgery. We report on 2 cases of femoral nerve injury after pelvic surgery: 1 patient received radical cystectomy due to invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder, and the other patient had a transurethral resection of the bladder and received exploration and biopsy of a tumor mass over the right sacroiliac joint ...

Umbilical Endometriosis without Pelvic Surgery

We report a recently observed case of primary umbilical endometriosis without previous pelvic surgery. A 41-year-old Japanese woman complained of umbilical nodular tumor. Histopathology revealed endometriosis of an approximate 10 mm resected mass. The stromal cells in endometriosis were immunohistochemically positive for CD10. Two months later the first umbilical surgery, she underwent a left s...

Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery