160 publications
Outcomes science, patient-reported outcomes, registries, staging, quality of life, learning curves, guidelines, education, simulation, and methods papers that support surgical interpretation.
JU open plus · 2026
Vesicourethral anastomotic stenosis (VUAS) occurs after 1 to 3% of robotic-assisted radical prostatectomies (RARPs). Pelvic fascia-sparing techniques preserve more native anatomy and may reduce stenoses, but evidence is lacking. The aim of this study was...
World journal of urology · 2026
To report perioperative and short-term outcomes of single-port (SP) robotic vascular-preserving (non-transecting) Y-V flap pyeloplasty with stricturoplasty for ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO). The most commonly performed pyeloplasty technique is...
World journal of urology · 2026
Ileal ureter interposition is a well-established option for complex ureteral strictures. While minimally invasive approaches have evolved, the application of the single-port (SP) robotic platform for ileal ureter reconstruction has not been previously...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2026
The intersection between urology and plastic surgery represents an important collaborative frontier in modern reconstruction. Defects involving the genitourinary and perineal regions frequently require the coordinated expertise of both specialties to...
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · 2026
European Urology · 2026
World journal of urology · 2026
PURPOSE: Robot-assisted surgical management of ureteral stricture is a relatively uncommon procedure with numerous techniques described. This literature review combined with expert opinion outlines the key surgical principles of ureteral reconstruction and...
Journal of Urology · 2026
European urology open science · 2025
Robot-assisted buccal mucosa graft (BMG) ureteroplasty was introduced a decade ago and has since gained wide adoption within the urology community. However, available data on the outcomes of robot-assisted BMG ureteroplasty remain limited, and no large...
BJUI compass · 2025
To compare the outcomes of open versus robotic ureteral reimplantation procedures at a single centre. The charts of all patients with ureteral strictures who underwent open ureteral reimplantation between 2005 and 2024, and those who underwent robotic...
Urology · 2025
To generate surgeon consensus on metoidioplasty and phalloplasty gender-affirming surgery outcomes statements using a modified Delphi method. We invited metoidioplasty and phalloplasty gender-affirming surgery surgeons to anonymously participate in a...
Annals of surgery · 2025
To determine the outcomes of robotic peritoneal flap vaginoplasty. There is a lack of long-term outcomes data for gender-affirming vaginoplasty to inform patient decision-making. A retrospective cohort of 500 consecutive patients undergoing robotic...
BMJ Open · 2025
Annals of plastic surgery · 2025
The learning curve (LC) is the process of mastering a new technique. This study assesses the LC for robotic-assisted peritoneal flap gender-affirming vaginoplasty (RPGAV). A retrospective chart review of all consecutive patients undergoing RPGAV between...
Journal of robotic surgery · 2025
Little is known regarding the incidence of symptomatic, de novo vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) after ureteral reimplantation in adults. We sought to characterize this phenomenon in a contemporary cohort. We conducted a retrospective review of a...
JAMA network open · 2025
There is an urgent need for a validated gender-affirming care-specific patient-reported outcome measure (PROM). To field test the GENDER-Q, a new PROM for gender-affirming care, in a large, international sample of transgender and gender diverse (TGD)...
Nature reviews. Urology · 2025
The advent of the purpose-built da Vinci single-port robotic platform marks a pivotal advancement in minimally invasive urological surgery. Designed to overcome the ergonomic and technical limitations of prior single-site approaches, the single-port system...
Journal of robotic surgery · 2025
The surgical approach of ureteral stricture has changed dramatically over the past 15 years with the rise of robotic upper urinary tract reconstruction. This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of all robotic ureteral reconstructions performed at a single...
Urology · 2025
To describe our institutional experience of a case series using a novel multi-segment, chimeric free ileal flap for posterior urethral reconstruction, focusing on surgical technique, perioperative management, and functional outcomes. Complex posterior...
Urology · 2025
To determine the early experience with paclitaxel-drug coated balloon (DCB) for both anterior urethral stricture disease (aUSD) and posterior urethral stenoses (PUS). A retrospective review of patients undergoing Optilume DCB in the Trauma and Urologic...
BJU international · 2025
Gender-affirming care has emerged as a critical component of healthcare, addressing the specific medical and psychosocial needs of transgender and non-binary individuals. In this review article, we address what we see as the most pressing evidence gaps in...
The Journal of urology · 2024
The purpose of this study was to create and validate an anterior urethral stricture disease (aUSD) staging system based on the previously validated Length (L), Urethral Segment (S), and Etiology (E; LSE) classification system. The Trauma and Urologic...
Neurourology and urodynamics · 2024
With increased access to gender affirming care, the rate of vaginoplasties in the US has risen rapidly. Although some retrospective studies report high rates of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) after gender affirming vaginoplasty, the type and severity...
Urology · 2024
To evaluate the incidence of gender-affirming phalloplasty and postoperative complications in a large population-based dataset. Retrospective cohort study was done using the California Department of Health Care Access and Information datasets which include...
World journal of urology · 2024
To compare the outcomes of patients undergoing robotic YV plasty for bladder neck contracture (BNC) vs. vesico-urethral anastomotic stricture (VUAS). A retrospective study included male patients who underwent robotic YV plasty for BNC after endoscopic...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2024
Sexual health is critical to overall health, yet sexual history taking is challenging. LGBTQ+ patients face additional barriers due to cis/heteronormativity from the medical system. We aimed to develop and pilot test a novel sexual history questionnaire...
Transgender health · 2024
High quality data regarding long-term clinical and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of genital gender-affirming surgery (GGAS) are lacking, and transgender and non-binary (TGNB) community voices have not historically been included in research development....
Urology · 2024
To characterize a large cohort of patients undergoing robotic buccal mucosa graft ureteroplasty (RU-BMG), determine the technique's durability, and assess the impact of patient- and disease-specific factors on outcomes. We conducted a retrospective review...
Annals of plastic surgery · 2024
Often secondary to obesity, adult-acquired buried penis (AABP) is an increasingly common condition. AABP is often detrimental to urinary and sexual function, psychological well-being, and quality of life. Surgical treatment involves resection of excess...
The Canadian journal of urology · 2024
We describe a method of robotic ureterocalicostomy (RALUC) with the Da Vinci Single Port (SP) platform and present clinical outcomes in our cohort of patients. We retrospectively reviewed all patients undergoing RALUC with the SP platform in a...
Journal of endourology · 2024
Introduction: To investigate preoperative predictors of surgical success for patients undergoing robotic ureteral reconstruction (RUR) for management of distal ureteral strictures. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed our multi-institutional Collaborative...
The Journal of urology · 2024
Several factors influence recurrence after urethral stricture repair. The impact of socioeconomic factors on stricture recurrence after urethroplasty is poorly understood. This study aims to assess the impact that social deprivation, an area-level measure...
Urology · 2024
Urology · 2024
Transgender health · 2024
Gender-affirming vaginoplasty can involve profound postoperative challenges related to the typical healing process and potential complications. We present a qualitative analysis of the greatest challenges that individuals experience after vaginoplasty with...
Urology · 2024
Asian journal of urology · 2023
Bladder neck contracture and vesicourethral anastomotic stenosis are difficult to manage endoscopically, and open repair is associated with high rates of incontinence. In recent years, there have been increasing reports of robotic-assisted bladder neck...
Urology · 2023
To address instances when there is insufficient remnant tissue to perform revision following canal-deepening gender affirming vaginoplasty revisions as indicated by insufficient depth. Options for lining of the vaginal canal include skin grafts, peritoneal...
Urology Video Journal · 2023
BJUI compass · 2023
To describe our multi-institutional experience with robotic ureteral reconstruction (RUR) in patients who failed prior endoscopic and/or surgical management. We retrospectively reviewed our Collaborative of Reconstructive Robotic Ureteral Surgery (CORRUS)...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2023
Patient-reported outcomes regarding sexual health are lacking or have not been validated for transgender patients following vaginoplasty. The aim of this study is to further characterize the difference in sexual health, genital self-image, and the...
Urology · 2023
1) To describe the authors' technique of anterolateral thigh (ALT) phalloplasty with staged skin graft urethroplasty and 2) to report the surgical outcomes and complications of this technique in a preliminary patient cohort. Following IRB (Institutional...
Journal of endourology · 2023
Objectives: There is presently scarce literature describing the outcomes of patients undergoing robotic ureteral reconstruction (RUR) using the Boari flap (BF) technique. Herein, we report our prospective, multi-institutional experience using BF in...
Urology · 2023
To describe the authors' experience with surgical management of complications following intestinal vaginoplasty and review the literature on incidence of complications following gender-affirming intestinal vaginoplasty. Retrospective chart review...
Urology · 2023
To clinically validate a previously developed adult-acquired buried penis (AABP) classification system that is based on a standardized preoperative physical examination that subtypes patients by their penile skin/escutcheon complex (P), abdominal pannus...
Urology · 2023
To determine surgical outcomes in a large of cohort men undergoing robotic-assisted posterior urethroplasty (RPU), which has been described in small series as a viable option. We performed a retrospective review of all 105 men who underwent RPU from...
Urology · 2023
To describe the characteristics, management, and functional outcomes of patients with synchronous urethral stricture disease (SUSD) utilizing a multi-institutional cohort. Data were collected and assessed from a prospectively maintained,...
Urology · 2023
To investigate predictors of surgical success for patients undergoing robotic ureteral reconstruction (RUR) for ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO), proximal, and middle ureteral stricture disease. We retrospectively reviewed our multi-institutional...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2023
Urologic complications in genital gender-affirming surgery are imperfectly measured, with existing evidence limited by "blind spots" that will not be resolved through implementation of patient-reported outcomes alone. Some blind spots are expected in a...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2023
The number of transgender adolescents seeking gender-affirming surgery (GAS) in increasing. Surgical care of the adolescent transgender patient is associated with several unique technical, legal, and ethical factors. The authors present a review of the...
World journal of urology · 2023
We sought to determine whether preoperative stricture length measurement affected the choice of procedure performed, its correlation to intraoperative stricture length, and postoperative outcomes. The Collaborative of Reconstructive Robotic Ureteral...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2022
Gender-affirming mastectomy, or "top surgery," has become one of the most frequently performed procedures for transgender and nonbinary patients. However, management of perioperative testosterone therapy remains controversial. Despite a lack of supporting...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2022
Insufficient genital tissue has been reported as a barrier to achieving depth in gender-affirming vaginoplasty. The authors sought to characterize vaginal depth and revision outcomes in patients with genital hypoplasia undergoing robotic peritoneal flap...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2022
Following gender-affirming penile inversion vaginoplasty or vulvoplasty, patients may seek vulvar revision procedures for a variety of common aesthetic and functional concerns. These indications for revision and accompanying techniques are not...
Microsurgery · 2022
Reducing donor site morbidity after deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap harvest relies mainly upon maintaining integrity of the anterior rectus sheath fascia. The purpose of this study is to describe our minimally-invasive technique for...
Urology · 2022
To describe the authors' experience diagnosing and managing intra-abdominal complications following robotic peritoneal flap vaginoplasty. The peritoneal flap vaginoplasty is a technique used to achieve consistent vaginal depth regardless of available natal...
Urology · 2022
To examine the safety, feasibility and durability of robotic reimplantation of ureteroenteric stricture after radical cystectomy. A retrospective multi-institutional review was performed for all patients undergoing robotic repair of ureteroenteric...
Urology · 2022
To provide a summary of surgical technique and outcomes for Heineke-Mikulicz preputioplasty (HMP), a foreskin-preserving surgical treatment for phimosis in the adult population. We retrospectively reviewed 7 patients who underwent HMP by a single surgeon...
The Journal of urology · 2022
A successful urethroplasty has been defined in different ways across studies. This variety in the literature makes it difficult to compare success rates and techniques across studies. We aim to evaluate the success of anterior urethroplasty based on...
Sexually transmitted diseases · 2022
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) after penile reconstruction in transgender, nonbinary, and other gender expansive (T/GE) populations have not previously been described, despite known risk factors in the population. After T/GE penile reconstruction,...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022
Increased access to care and insurance coverage has led to an increase in gender-affirming surgeries performed in the United States. Gender-affirming phalloplasty has a variety of donor sites and surgical techniques including both pedicled and free flaps....
Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022
Gender-affirming mastectomy has become one of the most frequently performed procedures for transgender and nonbinary patients. Although there are a variety of potential surgical approaches available, the impact of technique on outcomes remains unclear....
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2022
The surgical treatment of gender incongruence with gender-affirming surgery requires a sophisticated understanding of the substantial diversity in patient expectations and desired outcomes. There are patients with gender incongruence who desire surgical...
The Journal of urology · 2022
There are no established guidelines regarding management of antibiotics for patients specifically undergoing urethral reconstruction. Our aim was to minimize antibiotic use by following a standardized protocol in the pre-, peri- and postoperative setting,...
The Urologic clinics of North America · 2022
With the widespread dissemination of robotic surgical platforms, pathologies that were previously deemed challenging can now be treated more reliably with minimally invasive procedures via the robot. The advantages of precise articulation for dissection...
Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes · 2022
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2022
The journal of sexual medicine · 2022
Many patients have goals related to sexual health when seeking gender-affirming vaginoplasty, and previous investigations have only studied the ability to orgasm at cross-sectional timepoints. Our aim is to quantify the time to orgasm postoperative...
Urology · 2021
To describe the technique, feasibility and short-term outcomes of buccal mucosa grafts in robotic lower urinary tract reconstruction. We reviewed 9 patients who underwent single-port robotic posterior urethroplasty with buccal mucosa graft from...
Urology · 2021
To evaluate the outcomes of excision and primary anastomosis (EPA) for radiation-associated bulbomembranous stenoses using a multi-institutional analysis. The treatment of radiation-associated urethral stenosis is typically complex owing to the adverse...
Urology · 2021
To report our novel technique and mid-term follow-up for robotic-assisted laparoscopic vaginectomy (RALV), a component procedure of staged gender-affirming penile reconstructive surgery. The records of patients seeking gender-affirming penile...
Urology · 2021
To evaluate the effect of ureteral rest on outcomes of robotic ureteral reconstruction. We retrospectively reviewed all patients who underwent robotic ureteral reconstruction of proximal and/or middle ureteral strictures in our multi-institutional database...
The journal of sexual medicine · 2021
Current literature on surgical outcomes after gender affirming genital surgery is limited by small sample sizes from single-center studies. To use a community-based participatory research model to survey a large, heterogeneous cohort of transmasculine...
Urology · 2021
To present the technique and early outcomes of salvage neovaginal reconstruction using robotic dissection and peritoneal flap mobilization. Twenty-four patients underwent robotic peritoneal flap revision vaginoplasty from 2017 to 2020. A canal is dissected...
Journal of endourology · 2021
Background: Robotic pelvic surgery is being increasingly utilized for reconstruction proximal to the genitourinary diaphragm. We describe a combined robotic, transabdominal, and open transperineal approach for complex anastomotic posterior urethroplasty....
Urology · 2021
To describe the outcomes of single-stage and staged repairs in properly selected patients with phalloplasty anastomotic strictures. A bi-institutional retrospective review was performed of all patients who underwent anastomotic stricture repairs between...
Urology · 2021
To describe a novel method of robotic assisted laparoscopic parastomal hernia repair (RAL-PHR), including the evolving use of the Da Vinci Single Port (SP) robotic system. Demographic, intraoperative, and postoperative variables were collected for patients...
Urology · 2021
To describe and assess the outcomes of dorsal onlay oral mucosa graft urethroplasty for female urethral stricture. We retrospectively reviewed the charts of all female patients who underwent dorsal onlay oral (buccal or lingual) mucosa urethroplasty for...
The Journal of urology · 2021
Postoperative surveillance urethroscopy has been shown to be an effective tool to predict reoperation within 1 year after urethroplasty. We aimed to evaluate early surveillance urethroscopy findings and long-term outcomes among urethroplasty patients in...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2021
To optimize neovaginal dimensions, several modifications of the traditional penile inversion vaginoplasty are described. Options for neovaginal lining include skin grafts, scrotal flaps, urethral flaps, and peritoneum. Implications of these techniques on...
Current opinion in urology · 2021
Developments in robotic reconstructive urology have introduced novel treatments for complex upper and lower urinary tract disease. Short-term and mid-term data demonstrates excellent outcomes and minimal morbidity, suggesting the advanced instrumentation...
Therapeutic advances in urology · 2021
With the widespread dissemination of robotic surgical platforms, pathology previously deemed insurmountable or challenging has been treated with reliable and replicable outcomes. The advantages of precise articulation for dissection and suturing, tremor...
Urology · 2021
European urology · 2021
Refractory vesicourethral anastomotic stenosis (VUAS) after radical prostatectomy poses challenges distinct from bladder neck contracture, due to close proximity to the sphincter mechanism. Open reconstruction is technically demanding, risking de novo...
Urology · 2020
To update our prior multi-institutional experience with robotic ureteroplasty with buccal mucosa graft and analyze our intermediate-term outcomes. Although our previous multi-institutional report provided significant insight into the safety and efficacy...
Investigative and clinical urology · 2020
To report our intermediate-term, multi-institutional experience after robotic ureteral reconstruction for the management of long-segment proximal ureteral strictures. We retrospectively reviewed our Collaborative of Reconstructive Robotic Ureteral Surgery...
Urology · 2020
To determine surgical site infection and urinary tract infection (UTI) rates in the setting of urethroplasty. Given significant variation in the utilization of antibiotics, there is an opportunity to improve antibiotic stewardship. This study aims to...
Urology · 2020
To describe a technique for perineal urethrostomy (PU) revision using a posterior thigh propeller flap for a complex repair at high risk for stenosis. Our technique utilizes the consistent posterior thigh perforators for a local flap with ideal length and...
Journal of Urology · 2020
Urology · 2020
To describe surgical techniques and peri-operative outcomes with secondary robotic pyeloplasty (RP), and compare them to those of primary RP. We retrospectively reviewed our multi-institutional, collaborative of reconstructive robotic ureteral surgery...
Urology · 2020
Urology · 2020
Urology · 2020
PracticeUpdate · 2020
The Journal of urology · 2020
Risk factors for complications after artificial urinary sphincter surgery include a history of pelvic radiation and prior artificial urinary sphincter complication. The survival of a second artificial urinary sphincter in the setting of prior device...
Urology · 2020
To validate the Martini staging system for postoperative rectourethral fistula (RUF) utilizing data from previous studies to determine whether it can accurately predict postoperative success rate. A systematic search of peer-reviewed studies was conducted...
European urology · 2020
Robotic-assisted peritoneal flap gender-affirming vaginoplasty (RPGAV) with the da Vinci Xi system has been reported to be a safe alternative to traditional penile inversion vaginoplasty. Utilizing the Single Port (SP) robot system, our surgical approach...
Urology · 2020
To develop and validate a clinical classification system for urethral stricture disease (USD) based on the retrograde urethrogram (RUG), physical exam, and stricture-specific patient history. Three elements were chosen to be included in the classification...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2020
The omentum provides abundant lymphatic tissue with reliable vascular anatomy, representing an ideal donor for vascularized lymph node transfer without risk for donor site lymphedema. We describe a novel, robotically assisted approach for omental flap...
Urology · 2019
To describe the technique of robotic remnant vaginectomy/excision of urethral diverticulum in transmen and report postoperative outcomes. Between 2015 and 2018, 4 patients underwent robotic remnant vaginectomy/excision of urethral diverticulum for relief...
Urology · 2019
To evaluate the presenting complications of patients to reconstructive urologists after masculinizing gender affirming genital reconstructive surgery (GRS) performed elsewhere. We identified patients who underwent revision surgery by one of the co-authors...
Surgical endoscopy · 2019
Buccal mucosal grafts (BMG) are traditionally used in urethral reconstruction. There may be insufficient BMG for applications requiring large grafts, such as urethral stricture after gender-affirming phalloplasty. Rectal mucosa in lieu of BMG avoids oral...
World journal of urology · 2019
To analyze outcomes of posterior urethroplasty following pelvic fracture urethral injuries (PFUI) and to determine risk factors for surgical complexity and success. Patients who underwent posterior urethroplasty following PFUI were identified in the Trauma...
Urology · 2019
To analyze contemporary urethroplasty trends and urethral stricture etiologies over a 7-year study period among urologists from a large multi-institutional surgical outcomes group. Review of a multi-institutional, prospectively maintained urethroplasty...
The Journal of urology · 2019
We report multi-institutional outcomes in patients who underwent urethroplasty with a rectal mucosa graft. We used the TURNS (Trauma and Urologic Reconstructive Network of Surgeons) database to identify patients who underwent urethral reconstruction with...
World journal of urology · 2019
To assess the functional Queryoutcome of patients with cystoscopic recurrence of stricture post-urethroplasty and to evaluate the role of cystoscopy as initial screening tool to predict future failure. Cases with cystoscopy data after anterior...
World journal of urology · 2018
To identify predictors of thirty-day perioperative complications after urethroplasty and create a model to predict patients at increased risk. We selected all patients recorded in the National Surgery Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) from 2005 to 2015...
Urology · 2018
To review a robotic approach to recalcitrant bladder neck obstruction and to assess success and incontinence rates. Patients with a recalcitrant bladder neck contracture or vesicourethral anastomotic stenosis who underwent robotic bladder neck...
Urology · 2018
To compare the utility of generic health quality of life (QOL) and condition specific indicators as patient reported outcomes measures for urethral stricture surgery. Patient data were obtained from the Trauma and Urologic Reconstructive Network of...
Translational andrology and urology · 2018
Minimally invasive surgery has made a profound impact on how urologists approach the challenges in reconstruction of the urinary tract. The advent of laparoscopic approaches to reconstructive urology have demonstrated comparable outcomes to open surgery...
Urology · 2018
To demonstrate the technique and the outcomes of robot assisted Y-V plasty bladder neck reconstruction (RYVBNR). We present our technique for treatment of recalcitrant bladder neck contracture (BNC) in 7 patients who underwent RYVBNR at our institution...
The Journal of urology · 2018
In this study we aimed to define the prevalence of preoperative and postoperative post-micturition incontinence or post-void dribbling after anterior urethroplasty for urethral stricture disease. We also sought to determine risk factors for its presence....
Current urology reports · 2018
A growing number of transgender patients are seeking gender-affirming genital reconstructive surgery (GRS). These complex procedures have high complication rates. We describe common surgical pitfalls in GRS and approaches for minimizing complications....
Minerva urologica e nefrologica = The Italian journal of urology and nephrology · 2018
Iatrogenic ureteral injuries represent a common surgical problem encountered by practicing urologists. With the rapidly expanding applications of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery, ureteral reconstruction has been an important field of recent...
Clinical genitourinary cancer · 2018
Nutritional status has been increasingly recognized as an important predictor of prognosis and surgical outcomes for cancer patients. We evaluated the effect of preoperative malnutrition on the development of surgical complications and mortality after...
European Urology · 2017
Journal of Urology · 2017
European urology · 2017
Minimally invasive treatment of long, multifocal ureteral strictures or failed pyeloplasty is challenging. Robot-assisted buccal mucosa graft ureteroplasty (RBU) is a technique for ureteral reconstruction that avoids the morbidity of bowel interposition or...
Urology practice · 2017
Male urethral stricture disease is a challenging urological condition that affects nearly a third of men 65 years old or older. Management options include dilation and urethrotomy as well as urethroplasty, an open approach with increased morbidity and...
Urology · 2017
To evaluate the success of urethroplasty for urethral strictures arising after erosion of an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) and rates of subsequent AUS replacement. From 2009-2016, we identified patients from the Trauma and Urologic Reconstruction...
BJU International · 2016
Urology practice · 2016
We compare the costs associated with primary endoscopic realignment vs delayed elective bulbomembranous anastomotic urethroplasty after initial management of pelvic fracture urethral injuries with suprapubic tubes. Decision analysis was performed comparing...
European urology · 2016
The Journal of urology · 2016
The purpose of this Guideline is to provide a clinical framework for the diagnosis and treatment of male urethral stricture. A systematic review of the literature using the Pubmed, Embase, and Cochrane databases (search dates 1/1/1990 to 12/1/2015) was...
World journal of urology · 2016
To characterize anterior urinary fistulae following radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Over 10 years, 31 men were identified to have an anterior urinary fistula. A retrospective database was created to evaluate patient demographics, presentation, diagnostic...
Therapeutic advances in urology · 2016
Urethral strictures or fistulas are common complications after phalloplasty. Neourethral defects pose a difficult reconstructive challenge using standard techniques as there is generally insufficient ventral tissue to support a graft urethroplasty. We...
BJU international · 2015
To review the guidelines released in the last decade by several organisations for the optimal evaluation and management of genitourinary injuries (renal, ureteric, bladder, urethral and genital). This is a review of the genitourinary trauma guidelines from...
Korean journal of urology · 2015
Tissue transfer techniques are an essential part of the reconstructive urologist's armamentarium. Flaps and graft techniques are widely used in genital and urethral reconstruction. A graft is tissue that is moved from a donor site to a recipient site...
Urology · 2015
To determine variability in urethral stricture surveillance. Urethral strictures impact quality of life and exact a large economic burden. Although urethroplasty is the gold standard for durable treatment, strictures recur in 8%-18%. There are no...
Urology · 2015
To determine a nationwide contemporary description of surgical Fournier gangrene (FG) and necrotizing fasciitis of the genitalia (NFG) outcomes because historically reported mortality rates for FG and NFG are based on small single-institution studies from...
BJU international · 2015
To evaluate the long-term outcomes of robotic-assisted laparoscopic (RAL) upper urinary tract (UUT) reconstruction performed at a tertiary referral centre. Data from 250 consecutive patients undergoing RAL UUT reconstruction, including pyeloplasty with or...
Journal of Urology · 2014
Journal of Urology · 2014
The American Surgeon · 2014
Journal of Urology · 2013
The Journal of urology · 2013
We recently demonstrated that radiotherapy induced urethral strictures can be successfully managed with urethroplasty. We increased size and followup in our multi-institutional cohort, and evaluated excision and primary anastomosis as treatment for...
Urology · 2013
To present our 5-year experience using a "drain and retain" option, in which existing urologic prosthetic balloons and reservoirs (UPBR) were emptied but not removed during routine artificial urinary sphincter (AUS)/inflatable penile prosthesis (IPP)...
Urology · 2013
To evaluate our 5-year experience with deep lateral transurethral incisions of bladder neck contracture (TUIBNC), identify risk factors associated with failure of procedure, and assess outcomes of men subsequently treated for concomitant or de novo stress...
The Journal of urology · 2013
We assessed patient perceptions of regular intermittent self-dilation in men with urethral stricture. We constructed and distributed a visual analog questionnaire to evaluate intermittent self-dilation via catheterization by men referred for urethral...
The Canadian journal of urology · 2013
To explore the association of artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) cuff sizes and placement techniques with the development of postoperative urinary retention. We analyzed the outcomes of AUS cases performed by a single surgeon at a tertiary referral center...
The Journal of urology · 2013
We propose a novel risk stratified followup protocol for use after urethroplasty and explore potential cost savings. Decision analysis was performed comparing a symptom based, risk stratified protocol for patients undergoing excision and primary...
The journal of sexual medicine · 2013
The epidemiology of priapism is not well characterized. A small number of studies based on inpatient data or small population samples have estimated the incidence to range from 0.34 to 1.5 cases per 100,000 males. To estimate the current epidemiology and...
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery · 2013
Penetrating external genital injuries, although uncommon, may present complex problems for the urologic and trauma surgeon. A paucity of data exists on the incidence, clinical characteristics, and management outcomes of these injuries because few...
Journal of endourology · 2013
Laparoscopic and especially robot-assisted minimally invasive prostatectomy (MIP) has increased in popularity over the past decade. We analyzed how the increasing prevalence of MIP has affected the outcomes of MIP and open radical prostatectomy (RRP). In...
Journal of Urology · 2012
The Journal of urology · 2011
We evaluated the spectrum of symptoms in men with urethral stricture presenting for urethroplasty. We identified 214 men who underwent anterior urethroplasty by a single surgeon (CMG) from March 2001 to June 2010. We retrospectively reviewed the initial...
BJU international · 2011
Study Type - Therapy (case series) Level of Evidence 4 What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Infectious complication is a risk of bacille Calmette-Guérin instillation. Urine analysis in asymptomatic patients has been used as a measure...
The Journal of urology · 2011
Testicular torsion causes considerable morbidity in the pediatric population but the societal burden is poorly quantified. We determined the modern incidence of testicular torsion as well as the current rates of orchiectomy and attempted testicular...
BJU international · 2011
To use the national Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer registry to describe the natural history, national incidence and treatment patterns for ductal prostate cancer (PCa) over the last 20 years, as the available literature on ductal...
Nature Reviews Urology · 2010
Nature reviews. Urology · 2010
Nanotechnology is poised to have a substantial influence on biomedicine. A unique example of a nanotechnology that has progressed from proof-of-concept to human clinical trials is the use of ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles as a...
Journal of robotic surgery · 2009
Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a procedure thought to require experience with a significant number of cases before mastering. Most RARP series examine outcomes after the learning curve or by combining results from multiple surgeons. We...
Journal of endourology · 2009
Approximation of the bladder to urethra during robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) is a critical step toward achieving long-term continence. To determine the impact on surgical outcomes after RALP, we compare two techniques for constructing...
Minerva urologica e nefrologica = The Italian journal of urology and nephrology · 2009
Robotic surgery is becoming rapidly integrated in urology. Nearly every open or laparoscopic procedure has been described with robotic assistance. While the da Vinci robot is recently applied to the upper urinary tract, it has become widely adopted for...
Journal of endourology · 2009
Specimen morcellation during laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is controversial. We seek to evaluate the safety and efficacy of specimen morcellation and LRN for treatment of presumed malignant renal lesions. We...
Journal of endourology · 2009
Most series on ureteroscopy for urolithiasis use postoperative plain radiography of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder (KUB) or intravenous urography (IVU) to determine outcomes. These imaging modalities, however, are not very sensitive and may overestimate...
International Brazilian Journal of Urology · 2008
Journal of Urology · 2008
Journal of endourology · 2008
Specimen morcellation during laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for renal-cell carcinoma is controversial, and supporting literature remains sparse. We seek to evaluate the safety and efficacy of morcellation for specimen removal after laparoscopic radical...
The Journal of urology · 2008
There is limited literature examining urethral reconstruction in patients with neurogenic bladder dysfunction. We describe our experience of urethral reconstruction in men with concurrent neurogenic bladder. A prospectively maintained database of all...