A 85-year-old woman consulted our clinic due to asymptomatic macrohematuria on January 6, 1987. In the cystoscopic examination, solitary and pedunculated bladder tumor was revealed. This tumor was located on the retrotrigonal region near the right ureteral orifice. On January 20, transurethral resection of bladder tumor was planned but the base of the tumor was stony hard, so complete resection...

Inflammation is an important feature of carcinogenesis. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) can be associated with either poor or improved prognosis, depending on their properties and polarization. Current knowledge of the prognostic significance of TAMs in bladder cancer is limited and was investigated in this study. We analyzed 184 urothelial bladder cancer patients undergoing transurethral r...

Introduction – 78 Preoperative Preparation – 78 Anaesthesia – 78 Strong Indications for Surgery (according to the EAU-Guidelines) – 78 Relative Indications – 78 Limitations and Risks – 78 Contraindications – 78 Instruments – 79 Operative Technique (Step by Step) – 79 Operative Tips – 80 Postoperative Care – 81 Common Complications – 81 TUR Syndrome – 81 Postoperative Complications – 81 Late Com...

PURPOSE In 76% of radical cystectomy patients there is discrepancy between the initial stage at transurethral resection and the final pathological stage of the cystectomy specimen. More specifically in contemporary series the absence of tumor at radical cystectomy specimens (stage pT0) is estimated at 5-25%. Our aim was to determine which factors contributed to the absence of tumor in our serie...

Recent innovations in thulium laser techniques have allowed application in the treatment of bladder cancer. Laser en bloc resection of bladder cancer is a transurethral procedure that may offer an alternative to the conventional transurethral resection procedure. We conducted a review of basic thulium laser physics and laser en bloc resection procedures and summarized the current clinical liter...

OBJECTIVE TURis((R)) is an emerging technique that shows the same efficacy of monopolar resection. However, there is currently little available data on the safety of bipolar devices. We assessed outcome and safety of TURis on a large cohort of patients with at least 6 months' follow-up. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 2006 and October 2007, 1000 consecutive transurethral resection (TUR),...

To explore the new catheter-special pants design and the application for patients with indwelling catheter after transurethral prostate resection, 156 patients after transurethral prostate resection were divided into two groups randomly: experimental group wearing newly designed pants and control group wearing normal pants after transurethral prostate resection; to compare the state of restless...

background: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is a chronic functional bowel disorder that up to 20% of the population is suffering from it. also benign prostatic hyperplasia (bph) is a common problem that approximately 90 percent of men may be affected by this condition until the eighth decade of their life. prostatectomy as a surgery and pelvic intervention can cause ibs. methods: it was a case-c...