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Treatment for children born with vaginal agenesis remains difficult, without a clear gold standard for tissue replacement. An autologous-engineered vaginal replacement would significantly improve quality of life for people born with this condition. The aim of this study was to critically review literature on the current state of tissue engineering for vaginal reconstruction in a pediatric population. An electronic literature search was conducted using PubMed for articles describing pediatric vaginal tissue engineering from January 2003 to December 2020. Nine studies met inclusion criteria and were reviewed. The model, methods, cell type and source, scaffold type, and time of analysis and evaluation were compared. Three studies used

Introduction: Ureterocele excision is a procedure that is typically performed in an open fashion. The robotic approach has many challenges associated with it, as well as many advantages. This video will demonstrate a robotic intravesical ureterocele excision, highlighting several novel techniques to aid the procedure, including bladder fixation to the rectus muscle and a unique approach to effective and watertight port closure, which can make a robotic approach a feasible, safe, and effective approach to ureterocele excision. Methods: A suitable patient was selected who had a large enough bladder, clinical indication for ureterocele excision, and interest in a robotic approach. The patient had congenital multicystic kidney without much function, and underwent a right nephroureterectomy previously. He had recurrent episodes of hematuria, and a ureterocele was identified via voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG). The ureterocele was a simple orthotopic stenotic ureterocele, seen on VCUG as a filling defe...

Introduction: We demonstrate a technique for robot-assisted laparoscopic augmentation enterocystoplasty with antegrade continence enema (ACE). These two steps have traditionally been perfo...

Introduction: We demonstrate a technique for robot-assisted laparoscopic bilateral ureterouretero-stomies of upper pole to lower pole ureters through a single approach. The patient is a 2-...