The Role of Power Morcellation and Controversies
Fig. 8.1 Power morcellation device . The toothed grasper is used to deliver the tissue to be morcellated to the rotating cylindrical blade housed by the external beveled sheath Prior…
Introduction
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018Jennifer T. Anger and Karyn S. Eilber (eds.)The Use of Robotic Technology in Female Pelvic Floor Reconstruction https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59611-2_1 1. Introduction Jennifer T. Anger1 and Karyn S. Eilber1 (1) Department of Surgery, Division of Urology,…
Sacrohysteropexy
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018Jennifer T. Anger and Karyn S. Eilber (eds.)The Use of Robotic Technology in Female Pelvic Floor Reconstruction https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59611-2_9 9. Sacrohysteropexy Bilal Chughtai1 and Dominique Thomas1 (1) Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine/New-York…
A Brief History of Radiological Imaging and Its Application in Urology
Fig. 13.1 Left humerus radiograph demonstrates a lytic osseous lesion with expansion consistent with a metastatic renal cell carcinoma lesion Retrograde pyelography was first described by Friedrich Voelcker and Alexander…
The History of Shockwave Lithotripsy
Fig. 11.1 (a) Light gas gun. (b) Scheme of lithotripsy. (c) Target and destructed kidney stone In 1971 at the symposium of the German Physical Society, the first results were…
Radiofrequency Ablation in the Treatment of Renal Tumors
Fig. 16.1 Placement of three to four fiber-optic temperature probes (Lumasense, Santa Clara, CA) are placed at the peripheral and deep margins 5 mm from the tumor-parenchymal interface. This allows…
The History of Focused Ultrasound Therapy in Urology
Fig. 22.1 (a, b) Principle of HIFU for prostate treatment: Prostate treatment is performed by the repetition and juxtaposition of several elementary lesions HIFU in Animal Models In 1989 a…
History and Development of Robotics in Urology
Fig. 20.1 Humanoid automaton , designed by Leonardo da Vinci, it is believed to be able to perform several human-like motions However the word robot wasn’t coined until 1923 by…
The Birth of Endourology
Fig. 7.1 Steps required to pull a Gibbons stent into the ureter Shortly after we treated this patient, we had another whose kidney was obstructed by a ureteroileal stone. Once…
History of Transurethral Resection and Fulguration of Bladder Tumors
Year Individual Innovation 1806 P. Bozzini Lichtleiter 1853 A. J. Desormeaux First endoscopic operation—extraction of urethral papilloma 1873 G. Trouve Polyscope—electroendoscopy 1876 D. Rutenberg Blasenspiegel—air cystoscopy 1877 M. Nitze Cystoscope…
