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...
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open · 2023
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...
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2023
Ureteral strictures are a common and often challenging complication of renal transplantation. The use of single-port (SP) robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery is a novel approach in the management of these patients. Here we describe 3 patients with...
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,...
Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2023
The 2 most common techniques for gender-affirming mastectomy are the double-incision free nipple graft and periareolar techniques. However, some patients are not well suited for either technique. When the nipples are high and on the pectoralis muscle, but...
Urology practice · 2023
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...
Current Surgery Reports · 2023
The Journal of urology · 2023
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...
AMA journal of ethics · 2023
Use of body mass index (BMI) as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery. When considering experiences of fat trans individuals, it is important to advocate for equitable divisions of...
AMA journal of ethics · 2023
Surgeons often encounter patients with realistic goals yet who desire unrealistic means of achieving them. This tension is compounded when surgeons consult with patients eager to revise a prior gender-affirming procedure completed by another surgeon. Two...
Urology · 2023
Urology practice · 2023
Nature reviews. Urology · 2023
Seminars in plastic surgery · 2023
Genital surgery for the treatment of gender dysphoria has undergone significant evolution since its inception in the first half of the 20th century. Robotic approaches to the pelvis allow for improved visualization and reduced abdominal wall morbidity,...
AMA journal of ethics · 2023
Since the US Food and Drug Administration first approved robotic surgery for clinical use in 2000, it has gained widespread adoption across multiple surgical domains. While pediatric surgery has had a relatively slower adoption rate, robotic surgery has...
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...