BACKGROUND Seroma formation is the most frequent postoperative complication after breast cancer surgery. We carried out a study to investigate the effect of various demographic, clinical and therapeutic variables on seroma formation. PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective cross sectional study of patients who underwent surgical therapy for breast cancer with either modified radical mastectomy (...

BACKGROUND Single minimum incision endoscopic surgery (MIES) involves the use of a flexible high-definition laparoscope to facilitate open surgery. We reviewed our method of radical nephrectomy for renal tumors, which is single MIES combined with preoperative virtual surgery employing three-dimensional CT images reconstructed by the volume rendering method (3D-CT images) in order to safely and ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the occurrence of severe urinary complications within 2 years of surgery in men undergoing either robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) or retropubic open radical prostatectomy (ORP). PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a population-based cohort study in men who underwent RARP (n = 4 947), LRP (n = 5 479) or ORP (n = 6 873) ...

PURPOSE To analyze the location of the positive surgical margin (PSM) and its association with the biochemical recurrence (BCR) rate in cases of radical prostatectomy (RP) according to the type of surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 1,880 cases of RP. Baseline characteristics were analyzed. Locations of the PSM were recorded in the four surgery groups as apex, anterior,...

qct calculations were performed to study the behavior of energized nh2oh formed by association collision of nh2 radical with oh radical. a potential energy surface that describes the behavior of the title reaction has been constructed by interpolation of ab initio data. h2o, hon, hno, nh3, o, h2no, cis or trans-honh, and h products and two vibrationally energized nh2oh and nh3o adducts were obs...

OBJECTIVE Upper limb lymphedema is a common complication after radical mastectomy in patients with breast cancer. In this study, we examined the efficacy of self-manual lymph drainage (MLD) after modified radical mastectomy for the prevention of upper limb lymphedema, scar formation, or shoulder joint dysfunction in breast cancer patients. METHODS Breast cancer patients scheduled for modified...

BACKGROUND Radical prostatectomy reduces mortality among men with localized prostate cancer; however, important questions regarding long-term benefit remain. METHODS Between 1989 and 1999, we randomly assigned 695 men with early prostate cancer to watchful waiting or radical prostatectomy and followed them through the end of 2012. The primary end points in the Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Gro...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to assess the waiting time, from establishing the indications for radical cystectomy to surgery, in patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder at different Polish urological centres and to determine its influencing factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective analysis of data was performed on all consecutive radical cystectomies, performed in 2008-2...

A known complication of laparoscopic surgery is pneumothorax. Most reported pneumothoraces occur during laparoscopic transperitoneal abdominal surgery. Clinically significant pneumothorax from pelvic extraperitoneal surgery has not been reported. In this paper, we describe symptomatic bilateral pneumothorax following a totally extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy. The management of the complic...

Aims of study Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer has been gaining wider acceptance as an alternative procedure to open radical prostatectomy. The laparoscopic surgery have been reported to be less invasive and expected to give more favorable impacts on postoperative urinary continence as compared with the open procedure. However, the precise impacts of the laparoscopic proce...