BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether resection of the nerve that innervates the origin of the adductor muscle group in addition to an adductor fasciotomy will decrease pain and improve function in patients with a chronic "groin pull." METHODS The authors conducted a retrospective multicenter chart review of 12 patients presenting with refractory groin pull. In two pat...

INTRODUCTION Diverticulosis coli is the most common disease of the colon in Western countries. Giant colonic diverticulum, defined as a colonic diverticulum measuring 4 cm in size or larger, represents an unusual manifestation of this common clinical entity. CASE PRESENTATION A 68-year-old Caucasian British woman with a history of intermittent lower abdominal mass, leg swelling and focal neur...

The obturator nerve is an extremely rare location for schwannomas to originate, and such diagnosis is typically not considered among the imaging diagnostic possibilities for a cystic-solid pelvic mass. A 63-year-old female with a known pelvic mass presented with increasing pelvic pain. The mass, which had been followed by serial imaging over five years, was described showing mixed solid and cys...

Background: To establish a new technique for en bloc resection of bladder carcinoma using a transurethral laparoscopic technique. Methods: Nine patients with primary bladder tumors underwent Partial Cystectomy with Transurethral Laparoscopic Technique (PCTLT). A 22 Fr Peel-Away sheath was inserted into the urethra for endoscopy, fluid discharge, and tumor removal. A 20.8 Fr nephroscope was used...

PURPOSE Although transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TURBT) is still regarded as thegold standard for the treatment of clinical non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, alternative surgical options remain investigating. Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of potassium- titanyl-phosphate (KTP) laser for the treatment of primary, clinically non-muscle invasive bladder cancer comp...

PURPOSE To map the vascular anatomy of the obturator foramen using fixed anatomic landmarks. METHOD Twenty obturator regions were dissected in 10 fresh female cadavers after vascular blue dye injection in five cadavers (50%). Furthermore, 104 obturator regions were reconstructed by angiotomodensitometry from 52 women under investigation for suspected arterial disease. The anatomy of the obtur...

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION The variability of the obturator artery inside the pelvis is well known; however in the thigh only two branches encircling the obturator foramen are described. With the evolution of minimally invasive trans-obturator approaches to pelvic surgery the anatomy in this area needs to be better understood. Trans-obturator approach has been shown clinically more effective and less i...