Michael Stifelman
Chairman and Professor of Department of Urology
Director of Department of Urologic Oncology
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ
USA

Provides a complete and thorough guide to perform robotic urinary tract reconstruction procedures

Discusses potential complications

Written by experts in the field

Why Robotic Surgery?.- Keys for Intraoperative Success: Principles of Urinary Tract Reconstruction.- Principles of Reconstruction: Spatulation, Blood Supply, Wound Healing.- Tissue Substitution in reconstruction: Graft, Flaps.- Adult Robotic Pyeloplasty.- Pediatric Robotic Pyeloplasty.- Managing Stones; Unusual Anatomy in a Patient with UPJ Obstruction.- Recurrent Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction.- Proximal Ureteral Reconstruction: Ureteo-Ureterostomy, Buccal Mucosa Graft, Retrocaval Ureter.- Ureteral Reconstruction- An Overview of Appendiceal Interposition and Ureterocalicostomy.- Robotic Renal Autotransplantation and Ileal Ureter.- Ureterolysis and Boari Flap.- Proximal and Mid-Ureteral Reconstruction in the Pediatric Population.- Diagnosis, Evaluation and Preoperative Considerations in Distal Ureteral Reconstruction.- Robot-Assisted Reconstructive Surgery of the Distal Ureter.- Distal Ureteral Injury and Repair in Children.- Distal Ureteral Reconstruction in Children.- Adult Bladder Diverticulectomy and Partial Cystectomy.- Pediatric Bladder Augmentation and Urinary Diversion.- Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Bladder Surgery for Nonmalignant Conditions in the Pediatric Patient (Bladder Diverticulectomy, Urachal Cyst Excision, and Cystolithotomy).- Surgical Complications after Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy.- Orthotopic Ileal Neobladder and Continent Catheterizable Urinary Diversion.- Robotic-Assisted Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion.- Urinary Diversion: Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Malone Antegrade Continence Enema (MACE) and Mitrofanoff Appendicovesicostomy (MAPV).- a. simple prostatectomy.- Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Bladder Neck Reconstruction.- Robot-Assisted Bladder Neck Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implantation.- Rectourethral and Colovesical Fistula.- Ureter-Vaginal Fistula.- Robotic Management of Vesicovaginal Fistulas.- Posterior Urethroplasty.