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BACKGROUND Delayed urethrocutaneous fistula (UCF) presentation after hypospadias repair is rarely reported. The aim of this study is to report our experience with delayed UCF presenting more than 5 years after hypospadias repair. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of patients who underwent UCF repair (CPT codes 54,340 and 54,344) at our institution between 1997 and 2017. Delayed UCF presentation was defined as a single normal urinary stream after initial hypospadias repair and subsequent presentation of a UCF/s urinary stream more than 5 years after initial hypospadias or UCF repair. Demographic and clinical data were reviewed after approval from our institutional review committee. RESULTS We identified 12 patients with delayed UCF. The mean age at hypospadias repair was 12.3 months (Range 6-32). The mean time to delayed UCF presentation was 11.5 years (Range 7.1-15.8). Four patients with delayed UCF (33.3%) required additional surgery for UCF recurrence with a mean time to recurrence of 2.2 years (Range  less then  1-5.6). CT99021 manufacturer CONCLUSIONS Delayed UCF presentation can occur more than 15 years after initial repair. Pubertal penile skin changes and increased genital awareness in older children may be contributing factors as all but one presented at age 10 years or older. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III. INTRODUCTION Dermatofibrosarcoma (DFS) is a common dermic sarcoma. It is a local malignant tumor occurring in young adults. The recurrence potential justifies an R0-type surgery with a three centimeters margin. We report our experience of the management of locally advanced DFS by resection and reconstructive surgery. METHODS It is an ongoing descriptive study spanned from June 2005 to December 2018. We included all DFS cases treated by curative resection and reconstruction. A total of eight cases of DFS among 108 soft tissue sarcomas were studied. All patients were males. The mean age was 41.8 years [32-60]. Carcinologic results, cosmetic results, and outcomes were analyzed. RESULTS R0-type resection was performed in six cases. In two cases, the resection was R1-type and resulted in amputation. In four cases, it was an iterative surgery. Average desease duration was 4 years [1-8]. Reconstructive surgery was needed for wound closure in six cases. Wounds healed in 28 days [18-90]. Outcomes showed hyperchromic keloid scars (N=2) at the trunk localization. CONCLUSION DFS is a common cancer with a good outcome if managed earliest. Delayed diagnoses and inadequate first-time surgery led to tumor extension and recurrences. Locally advanced tumors management needs extensive resections and reconstructive surgery. In addition to surgery, Imatinib and radiotherapy improve outcomes, but are not available in our context. Mobile health technologies (wearable, portable, body-fixed sensors, or domestic-integrated devices) that quantify mobility in unsupervised, daily living environments are emerging as complementary clinical assessments. Data collected in these ecologically valid, patient-relevant settings can overcome limitations of conventional clinical assessments, as they capture fluctuating and rare events. These data could support clinical decision making and could also serve as outcomes in clinical trials. However, studies that directly compared assessments made in unsupervised and supervised (eg, in the laboratory or hospital) settings point to large disparities, even in the same parameters of mobility. These differences appear to be affected by psychological, physiological, cognitive, environmental, and technical factors, and by the types of mobilities and diagnoses assessed. To facilitate the successful adaptation of the unsupervised assessment of mobility into clinical practice and clinical trials, clinicians and researchers should consider these disparities and the multiple factors that contribute to them. BACKGROUND Oral treatment options for disease-modifying therapy in relapsing multiple sclerosis have substantially increased over the past decade with four approved oral compounds now available fingolimod, dimethyl fumarate, teriflunomide, and cladribine. Although these immunomodulating therapies are all orally administered, and thus convenient for patients, they have different modes of action. These distinct mechanisms of action allow better adaption of treatments according to individual comorbidities and offer different mechanisms of treatment such as inhibition of immune cell trafficking versus immune cell depletion, thereby substantially expanding the available treatment options. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS New sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor (S1PR) modulators with more specific S1PR target profiles and potentially better safety profiles compared with fingolimod were tested in patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis. For example, siponimod, which targets S1PR1 and S1PR5, was approved in March, 2019, by the USe long-lasting effects on the immune system, the cumulative effects of sequential monotherapies can resemble the effects of a concurrent combination therapy. This treatment scheme might lead to higher efficacy but also to new safety concerns. These sequential treatments were largely excluded in phase 2 and 3 trials; therefore, monitoring both short-term and long-term effects of sequential disease-modifying therapies in phase 4 studies, cohort studies, and registries will be necessary. Dopaminergic neurons (DAns), generated from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), are capable of functionally integrating following transplantation and have recently advanced to clinical trials for Parkinson's disease (PD). However, pre-clinical studies have highlighted the low proportion of DAns within hPSC-derived grafts and their inferior plasticity compared to fetal tissue. Here, we examined whether delivery of a developmentally critical protein, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), could improve graft outcomes. We tracked the response of DAns implanted into either a GDNF-rich environment or after a delay in exposure. Early GDNF promoted survival and plasticity of non-DAns, leading to enhanced motor recovery in PD rats. Delayed exposure to GDNF promoted functional recovery through increases in DAn specification, DAn plasticity, and DA metabolism. Transcriptional profiling revealed a role for mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)-signaling downstream of GDNF. Collectively, these results demonstrate the potential of neurotrophic gene therapy strategies to improve hPSC graft outcomes.