LABORATORY for EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY, DISSECTION and INJECTION

Head: Luciano Alves Favorito, M.D., Ph.D. Associate-Professor and Researcher Urogenital Research Unit Phone: + 55 21 2868-8021 E-mail: favorito@uerj.br

The Laboratory for Experimental Surgery, Dissection and Injection of the Urogenital Research Unit develops research work applied to urology, using experimental models (dogs and pigs, mainly), corpse samples in adults and human fetuses, comparing the results in humans and in experimental models. Besides experimental surgery, the laboratory has great experience in injection-corrosion techniques in adults and fetuses, radiologic anatomy, meso and microscopic dissection and their applications in urology, having published and supervised numerous papers on this field.

The physical facilities of the laboratory include: a) - Anatomic room, with benches for dissection (macro, meso and micro) and injection-corrosion techniques; b) - Operating room for experimental surgery in small sized animals (rats, guinea pigs and rabbits); c) - Basic equipment such as analytical balance, digital balance with 1-gram precision, refrigerator, big freezer for storage of biologic - anatomic material, equipment for vascular injection and in cavities (macro, meso and microscopic), surgical material in general, various polymers for injection, digital pachymeters, conventional and digital cameras for documentation; d) - equipment for micro, meso and microsurgery: stereoscopic surgical microscopes, light equipment by optic fiber, microsurgery material, etc.; e) - Animal room and operating room for middle sized animals, shared, in the same building.

Biology postgraduate student performing experimental microsurgery Human fetus with 15 weeks of gestational age   Fetal kidneys from fetuses with different gestational ages (13 to 30 weeks)

Adrenal, renal and testis analysis in human fetus Intra-vascular resin micorinjection in a 13 weeks human fetus   Intrarenal arteries endocasts in a 20 weeks human fetus   Polyester resin endocast of kidney collecting system and intrarenal arteries   Polyester resin injectiona in the kidney collecting system

Research Lines and Projects Currently in Progress

Intrarenal Anatomy with Repletion-Corrosion in Humans and Experimental Animals

• Experimental Partial Nephrectomy in Human Adult Cadavers.
• Experimental Partial Nephrectomy in Pigs.
• Arterial Segmentation of the Pig Kidney.
• Intrarenal Vein Distribution in the Pig Kidney.

 

Testis, Epididymis, and Gubernaculum in Fetuses and Cryptorchid Patients

• Distal Insertions of the Gubernaculum in Fetuses and Boys with Cryptorchidism.
• Incidence of Anorchism in Cryptorchid Patients and in Human Fetuses.
• Anatomical Aspects of the Tunica Vaginalis and Epididymis in Patients with Torsion of the Spermatic Cord (In collaboration with Souza Aguiar Municipal Hospital - RJ).

 

Penile, Foreskin Anatomy and Urethra in Adults, Children and Fetus

• Structural Analysis of Foreskin and Penis in Fetuses.
• Analysis of the Glandar Urethra Development in Fetuses.
• Structural Analysis of Foreskin in Patients Submitted to Treatment with Betamethasone.

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