(HealthDay News) — Early unexpected recurrences after laparoscopic radical cystectomy occur in 8.7% of patients with favorable pathological characteristics, according to a study published in The ...

Long-term survival rates following laparoscopic surgery for bladder cancer are comparable to those of open surgery, according to a study. The findings, which come from the largest study to date with ...

a No deaths were reported. b Three patients underwent cystectomy for atrophic bladder and four female patients for cervical cancer. c Percentage calculated on a total of 27 patients. d Forty male ...

Laparoscopic cystectomy involves removing the bladder using small cuts (also known as 'keyhole surgery'). In women, the bladder is removed through the wall of the vagina. In men, the bladder is ...

Patients with high grade and/or muscle invasive bladder cancer and with concomitant diseases of the upper urinary tract, e.g. urothelial tumors (transitional cell carcinoma - TCC) or afunctional ...

The gold standard procedure for patients with invasive bladder cancer is open radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) and urinary diversion; however, this procedure remains ...

Patients with bladder cancer of clinical stage Ta–3N0–3M0 (according to the 2010 tumor–node–metastasis [TNM] classification system from the American Joint Committee on Cancer and the International ...

Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2013;8(1):29-55. Ovarian sclerotherapy uses ultrasound-guided aspiration with a sclerosing agent such as 95% ethanol (EST) or methotrexate. The purpose of the sclerosing ...