Welcome to the pediatric surgery service. Pediatric surgery is primarily concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of children, and differs from general surgery in that it is an age defined surgical specialty instead of an anatomically defined specialty. Pediatric surgeons are usually trained in the management of general surgical disease of children but also in the treatme...

I Is fitting that the inaugural issue of the Journal ofthe American Society ofNephrology highlights the 1990 Long Range Plan of the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board. The release of this historic report in March 1 990 signalled the beginning of a critical period for the future of nephrology. Achievement of the major recommendations outlined In this long-range plan would subst...

Early diagnosis and surveillance for metastasis and recurrences are critical issues of urologic cancer. Deregulation of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) has been implicated in urologic malignancies and represents potential markers or therapeutic targets. However, the utility of lncRNA as biomarkers appears to be overstated due to heterogeneous or irreproducible results from different studies. Thu...

Urologic complications associated with the ureterovesical anastomosis after transplantation may cause graft loss and mortality [1]. Today, extravesical ureteroneocystostomy has become a popular procedure to reestablish urinary tract continuity in renal transplantation. Complication rates vary from around 20% to less than 5% [2, 3]. At many transplantation centers, surgeons have adopted new sutu...