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To present our evaluation of the safety and feasibility of decreasing the impact of anterior urethroplasty by minimizing the surgery time, maximizing adjuvant pain therapy, and using anesthetic agents that decrease the incidence and severity of side effects, which allows most patients to leave the hospital comfortably within 4 hours of surgery. A retrospective chart review of 54 consecutive anterior...
Intracavernous self-injection of pharmacologic agents is an effective method of treatment of erectile dysfunction. Intracorporeal needle breakage is a rare complication of intracavernosal self-injection. We report an unusual case of multiple retained needles in a 44-year-old man who presented with penile edema after intracavernous self-injection complicated by needle breakage. The patient was treated...
Objectives. To assess whether a preliminary skin incision enhances diagnostic yield of percutaneous testis biopsy and to further evaluate the clinical efficacy of this procedure.Methods. A total of 45 men (67 testes) underwent testicular biopsy with two passes of a Biopty gun spring-loaded needle. Twenty-seven biopsies were performed without a preliminary skin incision (group 1), and 40 were performed...