Objective Tentorial dural arteriovenous fistulas usually drain into cortical veins and often present with hemorrhage. Treatment goal is occlusion of the draining vein, either by surgery or endovascular techniques. We present the multimodality treatment results of 12 patients with tentorial dural arteriovenous fistulas. Materials and Methods Between January 2007 and January 2017, 12 consecutiv...

OBJECTIVE Self-expandable plastic stents (SEPS) are increasingly being used for treatment of postoperative esophageal leak. This complication occurs in 4-27% of patients after radical gastrectomy, and has a high mortality rate up to 60%.The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of SEPS (Polyflex®) for treatment of post-operative esophago-jejuno anastomosis leak after radical gastrectomy...

introduction: in order to assess our skill in the tubularized incised plate (tip) urethroplasty technique in children with hypospadias. material andmethods: of 307 children (mean age 38 month) who received a tip urethroplasty, all had primary hypospadias. patients who were referred with complication were eliminated from our study. the hypospadias defects were subcoronal in 25 (8%), distal penil...

Purpose To report the sequelae of and preventive strategies for selected lower urinary tract (LUT) complications, i.e., posterior urethral diverticulum (PUD), intraoperative LUT injuries, postoperative dysuria, fistula recurrence in male imperforate anus (IA) with rectourethral/rectovesical (RU/RV) after laparoscopy-assisted anorectoplasty (LAARP) or sagittal (PSARP). Methods 153 boys IA RU/RV ...

Introduction: Perianal fistula is a commonly encountered disease, complete evaluation of which is essential to prevent recurrent surgery. Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and sinogram in evaluation of perianal sinus and comparison between two investigations in pre-operative assessment of perianal fistulas. Materials and Methods: A pros...

Background: Vesico-Vaginal Fistula (VVF) is a pathology with severe social repercussions. Resolution of VVF can be achieved through multiple surgical, abdominal or vaginal techniques, which will generally depend on the fistula's characteristics and surgeon's experience. In this study we describe our experience approach to treat using Martius graft repair.
 Materials methods: This prospecti...

OBJECTIVE New endoscopic techniques have been developed as an alternative to surgical treatment of bronchopleural fistula. The objective of this study was to analyze our experience with endoscopic treatment of such fistulas. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a retrospective study of patients with bronchopleural fistula diagnosed by fiberoptic bronchoscopy. Patient characteristics, underlying ...

BACKGROUND The anal fistula plug was developed as an alternative treatment for perianal fistulas. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the anal fistula plug with the mucosal advancement flap for the treatment of high transsphincteric fistulas. DESIGN This study was a double-blinded, multicenter, randomized trial. PATIENTS Sixty patients with perianal fistulas were randomly assigned to re...

BACKGROUND Acquired rectourethral or urethrovaginal fistula between the rectum or vaginal and lower urinary tract is an uncommon entity, which occurs as a consequence of pelvic disorder, including trauma, iatrogenic injury, inflammatory bowel disease, pelvic neoplasm or infection. But when is it appropriate to repair the fistula and what methods to be chosen? There has been no consensus on them...

Introduction: Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is a rare condition, which could be life-threatening if diagnosed late or mismanaged. Post-intubation TEF is the most common form of acquired, non-malignant TEF and is usually associated with tracheal stenosis, which makes the treatment more challenging. Here, we present our experience of managing 21 patients with post-intubation TEF.   Materials & ...