Robotic management of a duplicated ureter during intracoporeal urinary diversion following robotic cystectomy Abdullah Erdem Canda1, Erem Asil2, Erdem Koc2, Mustafa Aldemir2, Arslan Ardicoglu3, Ali Fuat Atmaca3 1Yildirim Beyazit University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey 2Ankara Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Department of Urology, Ankara, Turkey 3Yildirim Beyazit University, School...

PURPOSE The optimal form of urinary diversion following radical cystectomy remains controversial. We sought to compare the long-term health-related quality-of-life outcomes between patients with orthotopic neobladder and ileal conduit diversion (ICD). PATIENTS AND METHODS We enrolled 95 patients following radical cystectomy and ICD (n = 49) or orthotopic neobladder reconstruction (ONR) (n = 4...

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in American men and almost 25% is muscle invasive at the time of diagnosis (Cancer Facts and Figures, 2009; Nieder et al., 2008). Currently, most effective local treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer and noninvasive, high-grade bladder tumors that recur or progress despite intravesical therapies is open radical cystoprostatectomy with ur...

Radical cystectomy (RCX) and urinary diversion is the standard treatment for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer and some patients with non-muscle invasive disease who failed the intra-vesical treatment [1]. Multiple techniques of urinary diversion are present. However, the orthotopic neobladder (OBS) may be better in terms of quality of life, as it is the closest to the normal bladder...

SIMPLE cystectomy has proved to be a satisfactory method of treatment for carcinoma of the urinary bladder. We became interested in this method of treatment in 1948 and have performed 265 cystectomies since then. During the period between 1948 and 1953, ureterosigmoidostomy was utilized as a means of urinary diversion. Since then, we have been using the ileal loop as a method of urinary diversi...