BACKGROUND The use of posterior capsular plication to decrease capsular volume and address capsular laxity for treatment of posterior instability, multidirectional instability, or as an additional technique in the treatment of anterior instability is common. Multiple different suturing techniques have been described. HYPOTHESIS The simple stitch will have inferior biomechanical properties com...

Urinary incontinence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is one of the most bothersome complications affecting patients' daily lives. The efficacy of the bladder neck plication stitch technique in promoting an earlier return of continence was prospectively evaluated in 158 patients who underwent RARP for clinically localized prostate cancer by a single surgeon at our institute fro...

BACKGROUND The cervicomental (CM) angle is formed by the horizontal plane of the submental region and the vertical plane of the neck. OBJECTIVE To compare the 2-dimensional effect of 4 surgical techniques on the CM angle in a human cadaver model. DESIGN Anatomic presurgical and postsurgical comparative study performed on human cadavers preserved with ethylene glycol. SETTING Academic medi...

BACKGROUND To evaluate our experience of early surgical plication for diaphragmatic eventration (DE) in infancy and childhood. METHODS This study evaluated infants and children with symptomatic DE who underwent plication through an open transthoracic approach in our childhood development department between January 2005 and December 2012. Surgical plication was performed in several rows using ...