Increase in the prevalence of symptomatic upper urinary tract stones during the last ten years.

abstract：:In a group of patients consecutively operated on for renal stones, more than half of the patients had urinary tract infection. In a significant number of the patients with infection stones containing magnesium ammonium phosphate, no urease-producing microorganism could be cultured. Escherichia coli was on the other ha...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Bratell S,Brorson JE,Grenabo L,Hedelin H,Pettersson S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the local host response in patients with colonic and ileal neobladders, with or without bacteriuria. METHODS:Twenty-three patients with colonic neobladders and 19 with ileal neobladders were included. Eleven radical prostatectomy patients and seven healthy male volunteers were used as controls. Six ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Wullt B,Bergsten G,Carstensen J,Gustafsson E,Gebratsedik N,Holst E,Månsson W

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Radiolabelled choline positron emission tomography has changed the management of prostate cancer patients. However, new emerging radiopharmaceutical agents, like radiolabelled prostate specific membrane antigen, and new promising hybrid imaging will begin new challenges in the diagnostic field. OBJECTIVE:The c...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Evangelista L,Briganti A,Fanti S,Joniau S,Reske S,Schiavina R,Stief C,Thalmann GN,Picchio M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The European Association of Urology Guideline Panel for Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) has prepared evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for RCC management. OBJECTIVES:To provide an update of the 2010 RCC guideline based on a standardised methodology that is robust, transparent, reproducible, and reliable...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Ljungberg B,Bensalah K,Canfield S,Dabestani S,Hofmann F,Hora M,Kuczyk MA,Lam T,Marconi L,Merseburger AS,Mulders P,Powles T,Staehler M,Volpe A,Bex A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied 38 patients with previously untreated, widespread prostatic cancer, who were submitted to therapy with cyproterone acetate and orchiectomy. 70% of patients with symptoms have shown subjective improvement. Moreover, it was possible to observe the regression, stabilization or progression of metastases in...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Pescatore D,Giberti C,Martorana G,Natta G,Giuliani L

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To know the incidence of tumoural pathology among our cases of horseshoe kidney (HK), a congenital anomaly occurring in 0.25% of the population, as well as their prognostic factors and follow-up. METHODS:A total of 82 patients admitted at our Centre between 1967 and 1996 with an HK diagnosis were retrospect...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Rubio Briones J,Regalado Pareja R,Sánchez Martín F,Chéchile Toniolo G,Huguet Pérez J,Villavicencio Mavrich H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the relative accuracy of a computerised method to quantitatively assess maximum urinary flow. METHODS:A total of 1147 uroflows were evaluated by the computerised method and by three experts from different European countries. The sample consisted of uroflows from the respective visits by a 20% sa...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Witjes WP,de la Rosette JJ,van den Berg-Segers A,Colongo D,Koch G,Zlotta AR,Colau A,de Wildt MJ,Wijkstra H

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined androgen blockade (CAB) is becoming standard treatment for patients with newly diagnosed advanced prostate cancer. This statement is based on the outcome and long-term evaluation of patients treated in prospective randomised trials. Particularly, patients with 'good' prognostic signs at the time of diagnosis ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Debruyne FM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed retrospectively a series of 58 patients with deeply invasive bladder cancer treated with fast neutron therapy (p(65) + Be) in order to evaluate its tolerance and side effects. Patients were divided into three groups according to treatment technique. Patients of group A received whole pelvis irradiation up ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Kirkove C,Richard F,Van Cangh PJ,Ledent G,Octave-Prignot M,Wambersie A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although surgical techniques for radical prostatectomy (RP) have been refined significantly, a significant number of patients still suffer from persisting postprostatectomy stress urinary incontinence (SUI). In recent years, various minimally invasive sling systems have been investigated as treatment options...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Bauer RM,Mayer ME,Gratzke C,Soljanik I,Buchner A,Bastian PJ,Stief CG,Gozzi C

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual behavior after prostatectomy was observed in 90 couples, with a follow-up of 3-6 years. Retropubic prostatectomy was performed on 53 patients (58.7%), transvesical prostatectomy on 12 patients (13.7%), and transurethral prostatectomy on 25 patients (27.7%). In order to have a reliable figure of the sexual behav...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Cytron S,Simon D,Segenreich E,Leib Z,Servadio C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The oncologic safety of blunt tumor enucleation (TE) of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) depends on the presence of a continuous pseudocapsule (PS) around the tumor and on the possibility of obtaining negative surgical margins (SMs). OBJECTIVE:To investigate the PS and SMs after TE to define the real need to take...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Minervini A,di Cristofano C,Lapini A,Marchi M,Lanzi F,Giubilei G,Tosi N,Tuccio A,Mancini M,della Rocca C,Serni S,Bevilacqua G,Carini M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 181 prostatic cancer patients under radiation monotherapy were tested for the therapeutic effect of pelvic lymphadenectomy (PLA). Sixty-seven belonging to the pN0 category formed a highly selective group and presented a 89% rate of 7-year survival. Localized radiation therapy with pelvic irradiation (81 pat...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Schubert J,Kelly LU,Wehnert J,Moravek P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied embryonic and fetal differentiation of the human prostate in relation to androgen-producing Leydig cell differentiation. We have studied the differentiation of human prostatic glands and the synthesis of acid phosphatase in vivo and in vitro. These studies have shown that the mesenchyme at the level of...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Kellokumpu-Lehtinen P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of transcatheter arterial embolization in the management of malignant tumours of the urinary tract and in particular of the kidneys and bladder is described. The results in a series of 10 patients (9 with hypernephroma and 1 with a carcinoma of the bladder) are analyzed and the advantages as well as the ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Vlahos L,Giannopoulos A,Caridis G,Giannopoulos P,Benakis V,Dimopoulos C,Pontifex G

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental oedema of the bladder wall was produced by electric coagulation current in 130 rats. The amount of oedema was calculated by determination of the difference between the weight of the freshly excised wet bladder and that after drying to constant weight. Thus, oedema of a fairly constant and reproducible ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Strohmenger P,Wenzel H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the in vitro growth characteristics and morphology of the first established long-term culture of human normal bladder epithelium. Normal bladder cells were grown with a mean generation time of 44 h and a life span of 33 population doublings in 12 weeks. The cells exhibited contact inhibition of growth. The ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Logothetou-Rella H,Nesland JM,Karayiannis A,Dimopoulos C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Well-designed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have the potential to provide high-quality evidence to inform questions of therapy and prevention, but this potential is contingent on the use of appropriate methods and transparent reporting. OBJECTIVE:To systematically assess the quality of urology RCT rep...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Narayan VM,Cone EB,Smith D,Scales CD Jr,Dahm P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a nearly universal concomitant of male aging, yet its natural history is largely undocumented. Most information on the clinical course of untreated prostatism has come from a limited number of studies. This lack of information makes it difficult for urologists to know when, how, a...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Guess HA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Na+- and K+-activated and Mg2+-dependent adenosine triphosphatase, Mg2+-activated adenosine triphosphatase and Ca2+- and Mg2+-activated adenosine triphosphatase activities were determined in washed spermatozoa and in two fractions (pellet and supernatant) of seminal plasma of oligoasthenospermic patients and men with ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Karacagil M,Sade M,Türkyilmaz RK

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptorchidism is the most common male sexual disorder. In the case of an abdominal testis there is no objective criterion to choose between autotransplantation or orchiopexy after ligation of the spermatic vessels with subsequent development of collateral blood supply. By combining near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) w...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Colier WN,Froeling FM,de Vries JD,Oeseburg B

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Based on our recently published anatomic studies, we present the most recent refinement of the endoscopic extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy (EERPE), the intrafascial nerve-sparing EERPE (nsEERPE). METHODS:As part of the intrafascial technique, the dissection plane is directly on the prostatic capsule, f...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Stolzenburg JU,Rabenalt R,Do M,Schwalenberg T,Winkler M,Dietel A,Liatsikos E

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) is a distressing disorder in women. The transvaginal method of VVF repair is generally preferred, as its minimally invasive nature appears to offer several advantages compared with the abdominal approach, including decreased pain and blood loss and reduced hospital stay. A common ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Luo DY,Shen H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen ablation therapy is the treatment of choice for the palliation of patients with advanced prostate cancer. In addition to palliation, maximal androgen ablation (MAA), with a combination of medical or surgical castration and an antiandrogen, has been shown to increase the survival of patients with metastatic pr...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Trachtenberg J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureteral injuries following blunt pelvic trauma are extremely rare. Experiences with two cases of lacerations of the lower ureter due to pelvic fractures are presented. In patients with acetabular fractures the likelihood of lower ureteral injuries should be suspected and excluded by an intravenous urogram. ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Bick C,Oesterwitz H,Ziegler PF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients, mean age 55 years, with testicular hydroceles, were treated by aspiration and two-component fibrin glue injection. One patient was treated twice. The glue contains 70-110 mg fibrinogen and 500 IU human thrombin in 0.5- and 2-ml injections, respectively (Tisseel duo quick, Immune AB). The smaller glue vo...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Sirpa A,Martti AO

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The complications of prostate needle biopsy (PNB) are important when considering the benefits and harms of prostate cancer screening. Studies from the United States and Canada have recently reported increasing numbers of hospitalizations for infectious complications after PNB. OBJECTIVE:Examine the risk of ...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Loeb S,van den Heuvel S,Zhu X,Bangma CH,Schröder FH,Roobol MJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful sexual functioning is a complex process involving psychological and social responses as well as neurological, biochemical and vascular processes. Today it is believed that more than 50% of the sexual dysfunction cases have an organic etiology. Reflecting the controversy over the management of psychogenic im...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Yaman LS,Kiliç S,Sarica K,Bayar M,Saygin B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old patient underwent left radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma and received adjuvant chemotherapy postoperatively with adriamycin and 5-fluoruracil. Twenty months afterwards he developed cerebral and multiple bilateral pulmonary metastases. The cerebral metastasis was excised and nonspecific immunos...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Martínez-Piñeiro L,de la Peña J,Picazo ML,Jiménez León J,Beneitez M,Martínez-Piñeiro JA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laparoscopic cryoablation (LCA) and percutaneous cryoablation (PCA) of small renal masses have gained popularity, but only limited data exist on the complication rates. OBJECTIVES:In this study, we report on postoperative complications associated with LCA and PCA in a single tertiary center experience. DES...

journal_title：European urology

authors： Tsivian M,Chen VH,Kim CY,Zilberman DE,Mouraviev V,Nelson RC,Albala DM,Polascik TJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00