4 Cases with Complications Necessitating Surgical Correction of Tension- Free Vaginal Tape Procedure in Female Stress Urinary Incontinence

The tension-free vaginal tape procedure has become a state of the art operation for female urinary stress incontinence and is a simple surgical procedure with good postoperative outcomes. Cases of complication requiring surgical correction are reported to be rare. There are possibilities of major complications, which should be corrected with surgery, such as bowel perforation, obturator nerve injury, vascular injury, persistent urinary retention. We report on 4 patients with complications necessitating surgery, of which obturator nerve injury, vaginal erosion, cystocele, urinary retension.

Metastatic Tumor of the Spermatic Cord from Gastric Cancer / 대한비뇨기과학회지

Metastatic tumors of the spermatic cord are rare. In the majority of cases the primary tumor occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, with metastasis to the spermatic cord by retrograde lymphatic flow, or direct invasion of tumor cells through the peritoneal cavity. The possibility of metastasis or recurrence of prior malignancies should be considered when a palpable tumor is identified in the scrotum or spermatic cord. Here, we document a case of gastric cancer involving metastasis to the spermatic cord.