Below is a list of selected peer-reviewed papers published between 2004 and 2006 in major medical and scientific journals by physicians in The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Urology division.
Austin JC, Chacko SK, DiSanto M, Canning DA, Zderic SA: A male murine model of partial bladder outlet obstruction reveals changes in detrusor morphology, contractility and myosin isoform expression. Journal of Urology. 172(4, Part 1 Of 2):1524-1528, Oct. 2004.
Carr MC, Snyder HM: Urethral valves, fate of the bladder and upper urinary tract: Urologe A. 43(4): 408-413, April 2004.
Casale P, Grady RW, Feng WC, Joyner BD, Mitchell ME. A novel approach to the laparoscopic Antegrade Continence (LACE) mechanism — intracorporeal and extracorporeal techniques. Journal of Urology. 171(2): 817-819, Feb. 2004.
Casale P, Feng WC, Grady RW, Joyner BD, Lee RS, Mitchell ME. Intracorporeal laparoscopic appendicovesicostomy: a case report of a novel approach. Journal of Urology. 171(5): 1899-1900, May 2004.
Casale P, Grady RW, Zeltser I, Joyner BD, Kuo RA, Mitchell ME. Transperitoneal laparoscopic pyelolithotomy after failed percutaneous access in the pediatric patient. Journal of Urology 172(2): 680-683, Aug. 2004.
Casale P, Feng WC, Grady RW, Joyner BD, Mitchell ME. The pediatric caliceal diverticulum: diagnosis and laparoscopic management. Journal of Endourology. 18(7): 668-671, Sept. 2004.
Casale P, Grady RW, Waldhausen JHT, Joyner BD, Wright J, Mitchell ME. Cloacal exstrophy variants: Can blighted conjoined twinning play a role? Journal of Urology. 172(3): 1103-1107, Sept. 2004.
Casale P, Grady RW, Joyner BD, Zeltser I, Kuo RA, Mitchell ME. A comparison between dismembered and nondismembered laparoscopic pyeloplasty in the pediatric patient. Journal of Endourology. 18(9): 875-878, Nov. 2004.
Delaney DP, Carr MC, Kolon TF, Snyder HM, Zderic SA: The physical characteristics of young males with varicocele. British Journal of Urology 94:624-626, 2004.
Delaney DP, Kolon TF, and Zderic SA. Persistent Mullerian duct syndrome associated with 47,XXY genoty pe. J Urol,171:852-853, 2004.
Feng WC,Casale P, Grady RW, Joyner BD, Mitchell ME. The ureter as a pedicle for construction of a ureteral urethra: The Double Tunnel. Journal of Urology. 172(3): 1089-1091, Sept. 2004.
Ginsberg JP, Hobbie WL,
Hutcheson JC, Stein R, Chacko S, Carr M, Canning DA, Zderic SA: Murine in vitro whole bladder model: A method for assessing phenotypic responses to pharmacologic stimuli and hypoxia. Neurourology and Urodynamics 23(4):349-354, June 2004.
Hyun G and Kolon TF. Endocrine evaluation of hypospadias. Adv Exp Med Biol, 545: 31-43, 2004.
Kirsch AJ, Macarak EJ, Chaqour B, Quinn T, Zderic S, Flake A, Crombleholme T,
Lee R, Clement MR, Carr MC, Canning DA, Brayman KL: Successful treatment of encrusted cystitis and pyelitis with preservation of renal graft. Transplantation 78(2): 302-303, 2004.
Nance ML, Lutz N, Carr MC, Canning DA, Stafford PW: Blunt renal injuries in children can be managed nonoperatively: outcome in a consecutive series of patients. The Journal of Trauma Injury, Infection, and Critical Care 57(3):474-478, Sep. 2004.
Patel, RP, , AR, Snyder, HM: The Island Tube and Island Onlay Hypospadias Repairs Offer Excellent Long-Term Outcomes: A 14-Year Follow-up. Journal of Urology 172, 1717-1719 October 2004.
Shukla AR, Woodard C, Carr MC, Huff DS, Canning DA, Zderic SA, Kolon TF, Snyder HM: Experience with testis sparing surgery for testicular teratoma. Journal of Urology 171(1):161-163, Jan. 2004.
AR , Huff DS, Canning DA, Filmer RB, Snyder HM, Carpintier D, Carr MC: Juvenile granulosa cell tumor of the testis: Contemporary clinical management and pathological diagnosis. Journalof Urology 171(5):1900-1902, May 2004.
Shukla AR, Nguyen T, Zheng Y, Zderic SA, DiSanto M, Wein AJ, Chacko S: Over expression of smooth muscle specific caldesmon by transfection and intermittent agonist induced contrac-tion alters cellular morphology and restores differentiated smooth muscle phenotype. Journal of Urology 171(5):1949-1954, May 2004.
AR , Huff DS, Canning DA, Filmer RB, Snyder HM, Carpintier D, Carr MC: Juvenile granulosa cell tumor of the testis: Contemporary clinical management and pathological diagnosis. Journal of Urology. 171:1900-1902, May 2004.
AR , Kiddoo D, Kolon TF, Canning DA: The neonatal vanishing kidney: Congenital and vascular etiologies. Journal of Urology 172(1):317-318, July 2004.
AR , Patel RP, Canning DA: The 2-stage hypospadias repair: Is it a misnomer? Journal of Urology. 172(4, Part 2 Of 2):1714-1716, Oct. 2004.
Shukla AR, Bellah RA, Canning DA, Carr MC, Snyder HM, Zderic SA: Giant bladder diverticula causing bladder outlet obstruction in children. Journal of Urology 172(5):1977-1979, Nov. 2004.
AR , Kiddoo DA, Canning, DA: Unilateral nephrectomy as palliative therapy in infant with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease. Journal of Urology 172(5):2000-2001, Nov. 2004.
Stanton MC, Delaney D, Zderic SA, Moreland RS: Partial bladder outlet obstruction abolishes the receptor and G-protein dependent increase in calcium sensitivity in rabbit bladder smooth muscle. American Journal of Physiology Renal Physiology. 2004 May 25 [Epub ahead of print];
Wu HY, Zderic SA, Wein AJ, Chacko S: Decrease in maximal force generation in the neonatal mouse bladder corresponds to shift in myosin heavy chain isoform composition. Journal of Urology 171(2 Pt 1):841-844, Feb. 2004.
ZdericSA: Renal and adrenal tumors in children. Urologic Clinics of North America . 31(3):607-617, Aug. 2004
Zhang EY, Stein R, Chang S, Zheng Y, Zderic SA, Wein AJ, Chacko S: Smooth muscle hypertrophy following partial bladder outlet obstruction is associated with overexpression of non-muscle caldesmon. American Journal of Pathology 164(2):601-612, Aug. 2004
Biard JM, Johnson MP, Carr MC, Wilson RD, Hedrick HL, Pavlock C, Adzick NS: Long-term outcomes in children treated by prenatal vesicoamniotic shunting for lower urinary tract obstruction. Obstet Gynecol 106(3):503-508, Sep. 2005.
Casale P, Grady RW, Joyner BD, Mitchell ME. Symptomatic refluxing disteral ureteral stumps after nephroureterectomy and heminephroureterectomy: what should we do? Journal of Urology. 173(1): 204-206, Jan. 2005.
Casale P, Grady RW, Mitchell ME, Healey P. Recurrent urinary tract infection in the post transplant reflux nephropathy patient: is reflux in the native ureter the culprit? Pediatric Transplantation. 9(3):324-327, June 2005.
Chang, S, Hypolite, JA, Zderic SA, Wein, AJ, Chacko, S, , ME: Increased corpus cavernosum smooth muscle tone associated with partial bladder outlet obstruction is mediated via Rho-kinase. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2005 Oct;289(4):R1124-30
Cserni T, Jozsa T, Csizy I, Carr MC, Canning DA, Rushton HG: The danger of intraoperative antegrade cannulation of the ureter in infancy and early childhood. Journal of Urology 173(3):967-968, Mar. 2005.
Delaney DP, Carr MC. Urethral strictures incident to bicycle motocross racing. Urology 65(4):798, Apr. 2005.
Kiddoo D, Bellah RD, Carr MC: Cross-fused ectopic multicystic dysplastic kidney with associated hydrocele. Urology 66(2):432.e3-432.e5, 2005.
Mannikarottu AS, Hypolite JA, Zderic SA, Wein AJ, Chacko S, Disanto ME.: Regional alterations in the expression of smooth muscle myosin isoforms in response to partial bladder outlet obstruction. Journal of Urology. 2005 Jan;173(1):302-8.
Nguyen MT, Pavlock CT, Zderic SA, Carr MC, Canning DA: Overnight catheter drainage in children with poorly compliant bladders improves post-obstructive diuresis and urinary incontinence. Journal of Urology 174(4):1633-1636, Oct 2005.
Nguyen M and Kolon TF. Ambiguous genitalia consult: A practical approach to the newborn evaluation. Contemporary Urology, Aug:24-25, 2005.
Patel RP, AR, Austin JC, Canning DA: Modified tubularized transverse preputial island flap repair for severe proximal hypospadias. British Journal of Urology International 95(6):901-904, Apr. 2005.
Patel RP, AR, Leone NT, Carr MC, Canning DA: Split onlay skin flap for the salvage hypospadias repair. Journal of Urology 173(5):1718-1720, May 2005
Patel RP, Kolon TF, Huff DS, Carr MC, Zderic SA, Canning DA, Snyder HM 3rd: Testicular microlithiasis and antisperm antibodies following testicular biopsy in boys with cryptorchidism. Journal of Urology 174(5):2008-2010, Nov. 2005.
Patel RP, Kolon TF, Huff DS, Carr MC, Zderic SA, Canning DA, Snyder HM 3rd: Testicular microlithiasis and antisperm antibodies following testicular biopsy in boys with cryptorchidism. Journal of Urology 174(5):2008-2010, Nov 2005.
Schwab CW 2nd, Casale P, Bilateral dismembered laparoscopic pediatric pyeloplasty via a transperitoneal 4-port approach. Journal of Urology. 174(3):1091-3, September 2005.
Shukla AR, Cooper J, Patel RP, Carr MC, Canning DA, Zderic SA, Snyder III, HM. Prenatally detected primary megaureter: Role for extended follow-up. Journal of Urology 173(4):1353-1356, Apr. 2005.
Shukla, A.R., Huff, D.S., Canning, D.A., Filmer, R.B., Snyder H.M. III, Carpintieri, D., Carr, M.C.: Juvenile granulosa cell tumor of the testis: new paradigms for management. Review Series Oncology, 10:16-17, 2005.
Borawski KM, Sur RL, Miller OF, Pak CYC, Preminger, GM, and Kolon TF. Urinary reference values for stone-risk factors in children. Submitted to J Urol, 2006.
Brucker, B, Ernst, L, Meadows, A, Zderic, S: A second leiomyosarcoma of the urinary baldder in a child with a history of retinoblastoma 12 years following partial cystectomy. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 Jun;46(7):811-4.
Casale P. Robotic-Assisted Pyeloplasty in the Infant — Lessons Learned. Journal of Urology. 176(5): 2237-2240, November 2006.
Casale P, Cucchiaor G, Ganesh, A. MS#: 06-0863 Version 4, Low Dose Intrathecal Morphine for Post Operative Analgesia in Children. Accepted Anesthesia & Analgesia Manuscript.
Chang, AY, Canning DA: Is ultrasound a safe alternative to voiding cystourethrogram for vesicoureteral reflux screening of siblings? Nature Clinical Practice Urology 3:308-309, June 2006.
Chang AY, Schwab CW, Kaplan BS and Kolon TF. Asynchronous bilateral renal venous thrombosis with subsequent development of cystic kidneys. Accepted to J Ped Urol, 2006.
DeCambre M, Casale P, Grady R, Swartz M, Mitchell M. Modified bladder neck reconstruction in patients with incontinence after staged exstrophy/epispadias closures. Journal of Urology. 176(1): 288-291, July. 2006.
Delaney DP, Saitta SC, Kolon, TF, Zderic SA and Spinner NB. Circumventing infertility with intracytoplasmic sperm injection: A case of transmission of a ring Y chromosome and true hermaphroditism. Submitted to J Ped Urol, 2006.
Delaney, DP, Zderic, SA: The value of imaging at the time of symptomatic presentation. Ped. Emergency Care, 2005 Feb;21(2):102-3.
Delaney, DP, Kolon TF, Patel RP, Huff DS, Canning DA, and Snyder HM. Cryptorchid Testis Histology in Boys with Non-fusion of the Testis and Epididymis. Submitted to J Urol, 2006.
Gonzalez F, Canning DA, Hyun G, Casale P: Lower pole pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction in duplicated collecting systems. British Journal of Urology International 97(1):161-165, Jan. 2006.
Hypolite, JA, Chang, S, Zheng, Y, , ME , Zderic, SA, Wein, AJ, Chacko, S: Partial bladder outlet obstruction induces urethral smooth muscle hypertrophy and decreased force generation. Journal of Urology 2006 Feb;175(2):777-82.
Kiddoo DA, Canning DA, Snyder HM 3rd, Carr MC. Urethral Dilation as Treatment for Neurogenic Bladder. Journal of Urology 176(4S):1831-1834, Oct. 2006.
Kiddoo DA, Canning DA, Snyder HM 3rd, Carr MC. Urethral Dilation as Treatment for Neurogenic Bladder. Journal of Urology 176(4S):1831-1834, Oct. 2006.
Kiddoo, DA, Valentino, RJ, Zderic, SA, Ganesh, A, , SC, Hale, L, , DE : Impact of the state of arousal and stress neuropeptides on urodynamic function in the freely moving rat. American J. Physiology Regul. Intergr. Comp. Physiol., Jun; 290(6):R1697-1706.
Kutikov A, Resnick M, Casale P. Laparoscopic pyeloplasty in the infant younger than 6 months—is it technically possible?. Journal of Urology. 175(4):1477-9; discussion 1479, April 2006.
Kutikov A, Guzzo T, Canter D, Casale P. Initial experience with laparoscopic transvesical ureteral reimplantation at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Journal of Urology. 176(5): 2222-2226, November 2006.
Kutikov A, Nguyen M, Guzzo T, Canter D, Casale P. Laparoscopic and robotic complex upper tract reconstruction in the child with duplex collecting system. Accepted Journal of Endourology December 2006.
Lee RS, Grady R, Joyner B, Casale P, Mitchell M. Can a complete primary repair approach be applied to cloacal exstrophy? Journal of Urology. 176(6): 2643-2648, December 2006.
Mannikarottu AS, Disanto ME, Zderic SA, Wein AJ, Chacko S.: Altered expression of thin filament-associated proteins in hypertrophied urinary bladder smooth muscle. Neurourology and Urodynamics 2006;25(1):78-88.
Macarak, EJ, Schulz, J, Zderic, SA, Sado, Y, Ninomiya, Y, Polyak, E, Chacko, S, Howard PS: Smooth muscle trans-membrane sarcoglycan complex in partial bladder outlet obstruction. Histochem Cell Biol. 2006 Jan 25;:1-12 , MT , Wagner, K, Delaney, DP, and Kolon, TF Gene expression alterations in cryptorchid males using spermatozoal microarray analysis.. Submitted to N Eng J Med, 2006.
Resnick M, Chang A, Casale P. Laparoscopic renal denervation and nephropexy for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease related pain in adolescents. Journal of Urology 75(6):2274-6; discussion 2276, June 2006.
Schwab CW II, Hyun G, Garabay-Gonzalez F, Canning DA, Grady RW, Casale P. Transperitoneal Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty for Pelvic Kidneys with Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction in Children: Technique and Preliminary Outcomes. Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 10(3):307-309, 2006.
Schwab CW II, Hyun G, Garabay-Gonzalez F, Canning DA, Grady RW, Casale P. Transperitoneal Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty for Pelvic Kidneys with Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction in Children: Technique and Preliminary Outcomes. Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. 10(3): 307-309, July — September 2006.