10th SEEM: Best Poster and Video Awards

Research on sex reassignment surgery and female urology won the top prizes for Best Poster presentations at the EAU 10th South Eastern European Meeting (SEEM) which ended today in Belgrade, Serbia.

Research on sex reassignment surgery and female urology won the top prizes for Best Poster presentations at the EAU 10th South Eastern European Meeting (SEEM) which ended today in Belgrade, Serbia.

Dr. V. Kojovic (Serbia) won first prize from Karl Storz for Best Poster for his work titled “Reversal surgery in regretful male to female transsexuals after sex reassignment surgery, “ while K. Mytilekas (Greece) won the first prize from Berlin Chemie for his work on the diagnosis of female obstructive voiding.

Best Video Awards went to submissions from Macedonia, Kuwait and Tehran.

Below are the list of winners:

Karl Storz Best Poster Awards

1st Prize- V. Kojovic, et al, “Reversal surgery in regretful male to female transsexuals after sex reassignment surgery," (Belgrade Serbia)

2nd Prize- M. Al-Kandari, et al, “Loupe - assisted varicocelectomy with testicular delivery and proximal spermatic cord occlusion with a tourniquet for primary infertility”

3rd Prize-Co-winner: S. Shamrayev, et al. “The prostate tissue changes in patients with BPO after medical treatment (Donetsk, Ukraine)

3rd Prize- Co-winner: H. Aboutaleb, “Role of the urethral plate characters in the success of tubularized incised plate urethroplasty” (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates)

Berlin-Chemie Best Poster Awards

1st Prize- K. Mytilekas, et al., “Evaluation of two novel urodynamic parameters in the diagnosis of female obstructive voiding" (Thessaloniki, Greece)

2nd Prize- S. Saidi, et al., “Microsatellite instability in urinary bladder cancer,” (Skopje, Macedonia)

3rd Prize- Co-winner: M. Ortac, et al., “Effects of low-energy shockwave therapy on angiogenesis factors at the penile tissue of diabetic rat,” (Istanbul, Turkey)

3rd Prize- Co-winner: S. Bajramovic, et al., “Surgery for incidental adrenal mass,” (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Best Video Awards

1st Prize: O. Ivanovski and B. Shabani, “Reconstruction of complicated urethral stricture in two stages with buccal mucosal graft” (Skopje, Macedonia)

2nd Prize: O. Alhunaidi, “Filarial epididymitis diagnosed by Filarial dance sign,” (Farwaniya, Kuwait)

3rd Prize: K. Tavakkoli Tabassi, “Fold back perineo-scrotal flap plus penile inversion vaginoplasty,” (Tehran Iran)