Graphical comparison of bladder augmentation surgery using either ileum (top) or a cell-seeded, biodegradable scaffold (bottom). MSCs and HSPCs represent different types of stem cells found in the ...

For children with neurogenic bladder, augmentation cystoplasty (AC) is safe and effective, with low surgical and metabolic complication rates, according to a study published online Feb. 20 in ...

Can growing blood vessels within a lab-engineered graft improve bladder reconstruction for children? For more than two decades, UC Davis pediatric urologic surgeon Eric Kurzrock has been developing ...

Scientists from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University have succeeded in regenerating fully functional urinary ...

The question at this point is how well complete primary repair of bladder exstrophy, using the phallic disassembly technique, has met the goals of renal preservation, construction of a cosmetically ...

A person may need surgery for bladder cancer to remove the tumor. A person may also need preoperative or postoperative treatments. Bladder cancer occurs when cells of the bladder start to grow out of ...