Impalpable Testis
Fig. 18.1 Diagram showing the positioning of the staff and equipment around the operating table Port Positioning The camera port is placed either in a supra- or infraumbilical skin crease,…
Posterior Urethral Valves
Fig. 25.1 Appearances on micturating cystourethrogram While the child is on catheter drainage, biochemical parameters are monitored, awaiting stabilization of renal function and achievement of a nadir creatinine level. Following…
Preparing the Child for Minimally Invasive Surgery and What Parents and Children Truly Remember
Operation Preoperative dose Neonatal (<72 h old) surgery 50 mg/kg ampicillin and 2.5–3 mg/kg gentamicin Class I Cefazolin 25 mg/kg Vancomycin (if MRSA or MRSE likely) 10 mg/kg Class II…
Ureteroscopy for Urinary Calculi
Fig. 29.1 Schematic diagram showing the positions of the surgical team, equipments and the patient (Modified with permission from Lopez and Duffy [34]) Cystoscopy is done to evaluate the bladder…
Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy: Principles of Fragmentation Techniques
Complications Incidence (%) Renal colic 2–19 Fever 0.8–8.5 Urinary tract infection 1.2–7.7 Stone street 1.1–17.4 Urethral stone <1 Dermal ecchymosis/bruises 0–100 Perirenal hematoma <1 Enteric wall hematoma <1 Gross hematuria…
Laparoscopic-Assisted Bladder Reconstruction
Fig. 16.1 Port placement for laparoscopic-assisted bladder augmentation using three ports While there is no ideal bowel segment for augmentation cystoplasty, ileum is clearly the most common segment utilized due…
Operative Pneumovesicoscopy
Fig. 12.1 Principle of ureteral reimplantation under pneumovesicoscopy 1. To insufflate the bladder with a gas (carbon dioxide) that allows creation of a working space equal to the bladder capacity…
Laparoscopy in Children: Basic Principles
Fig. 1.1 Beaver handle with a no. 69 blade Retroperitoneal Approach This approach may be performed with the patient in either a prone, lateral, or even supine position. The approach…
Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty
(1) Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences Division, Chicago, IL, USA (2) Comer Children’s Hospital, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Abstract…
Ergonomics of Laparoscopy
and Hiep T. Nguyen1, 2, 3 (1) Department of Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA (2) Department of Surgery (Urology), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (3) Innovative Urological Technology, Boston…
