- Renal cell carcinoma treatment
- Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
- Renal and related cancers
- Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
- Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
- Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments
- Hernia repair and management
- Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- Ureteral procedures and complications
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Urologic and reproductive health conditions
- Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- Urological Disorders and Treatments
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Stoma care and complications
- Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers
- IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Pediatric health and respiratory diseases
Riverside University Health System - Medical Center
2024
University of California, Los Angeles
2006-2007
Columbia University
2004
Wayne State University
1997
Open partial nephrectomy has emerged as the standard of care in management renal tumors smaller than 4 cm. While laparoscopic radical been shown to be comparable open with respect long-term outcomes, important questions remain unanswered regarding oncological efficacy nephrectomy. We examined practice patterns and pathological outcomes following nephrectomy.A survey was sent academic medical centers United States Europe performing The total number nephrectomies, positive margins, indications...
To evaluate the influence of an irrigation protocol in preventing reservoir calculi forming after augmentation cystoplasty and continent urinary diversion.Between 1985 1995, 91 patients had and/or diversion (group 1; 54 females 37 males, mean age 11.1 years, range 1-31); these were not routinely instructed to use surgery. The segments used included ileum (44), colon (36), stomach (eight) ureter (three). Between 1995 2000, 42 2) underwent reconstruction (22 20 14.8 4-27), segment being (30),...
To assess the benefits of laparoscopic nephrectomy in children as compared to open surgery and ascertain whether or not retroperitoneal technique offers any surgical advantage over transperitoneal approach.This study gathered retrospective data on a consecutive series 51 paediatric patients comparing; operative time, length hospital stay analgesic requirement. Results show that when is with it took 25 mins longer perform, there was shorter post by 2.5 days, 50% reduction morphine use....
Stoma site incisional hernias (SSIHs) are associated with substantial long-term morbidity, and the rate can be as high 30% to 40%. Recent efforts using prophylactic mesh reinforcement (PMR) reduce development of have shown encouraging outcomes. The objective this study was assess use biosynthetic at time stoma reversal on overall SSIH rate.
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<h3>Introduction and Objective</h3> Nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) is currently bring used for patients with small, localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC) tumors. We reviewed our experience NSS as a treatment modality of choice RCC in contemporaneous cohort (2000-2005) (group 1) (<i>n</i> = 60) compared surgical outcomes, risk factors recurrence, complications to two older UCLA cohorts (1995-1999) 2) 211) (1980-1994) 3) 90). The goal was determine whether increasing the indications would...