Contralateral adrenal metastasis of renal cell carcinoma: treatment, outcome and a review.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate both the patterns of prescription of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with prostate cancer (PCa) and the adherence to European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines for ADT prescription. METHODS:The Choosing Treatment for Prostate Cancer (CHOICE) study was an Italian multicentre c...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Morgia G,Russo GI,Tubaro A,Bortolus R,Randone D,Gabriele P,Trippa F,Zattoni F,Porena M,Mirone V,Serni S,Del Nero A,Lay G,Ricardi U,Rocco F,Terrone C,Pagliarulo A,Ludovico G,Vespasiani G,Brausi M,Simeone C,Novell

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the relationship of age to side-effects leading to discontinuation of treatment in patients with stage Ta-T1 non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) treated with maintenance bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG). PATIENTS AND METHODS:We evaluated toxicity for 487 eligible patients with intermediate- ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Oddens JR,Sylvester RJ,Brausi MA,Kirkels WJ,van de Beek C,van Andel G,de Reijke TM,Prescott S,Alfred Witjes J,Oosterlinck W

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:What's known on the subject? and what does the study add?: Variations in the type of urinary diversion exist for patients undergoing radical cystectomy. Although its use has been increasing from 2001 to 2008, patients who are older, female, and primary insured by Medicaid are less likely to receive continent...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kim SP,Shah ND,Weight CJ,Thompson RH,Wang JK,Karnes RJ,Han LC,Ziegenfuss JY,Frank I,Tollefson MK,Boorjian SA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore whether the number of unfavourable pretreatment risk factors predicts cause-specific mortality in men treated with prostate brachytherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between April 1995 and March 2006, 739 patients were treated who had at least one of the following adverse risk factors: pretreatment pros...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Taira AV,Merrick GS,Galbreath RW,Butler WM,Lief JH,Wallner KE

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:•To determine the optimal treatment for incidentally detected small renal masses between radical nephrectomy, partial nephrectomy, ablative therapy (AT) and active surveillance (AS) using a decision-analytic Markov model. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:•The reference case was an otherwise healthy 60-year-old patient. ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Abouassaly R,Yang S,Finelli A,Kulkarni GS,Alibhai SM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To present our experience with bladder cancer among a renal transplant population and to review critically the relevant literature. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In all, 1865 renal graft recipients were followed for a mean (SD) of 6.5 (5) years. Seven recipients (all men) developed a urothelial bladder tumour. The s...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kamal MM,Soliman SM,Shokeir AA,Abol-Enein H,Ghoneim MA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the relevance of ureterocele ectopia and associated reflux on the outcome of duplex system ureteroceles (DSU) after neonatal transurethral incision (TUI). PATIENTS AND METHODS:The study included 41 neonates with a diagnosis of DSU; the ureterocele was ectopic in 24 (58%). Before TUI, vesico-urete...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Castagnetti M,Cimador M,Sergio M,de Grazia E

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:•  To systematically review the current literature concerning perioperative, functional and oncological outcomes reported after open and minimally invasive prostate cancer surgery specifically from institutions within Australasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS:•  Four electronic databases were searched to identify s...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Cathcart P,Murphy DG,Moon D,Costello AJ,Frydenberg M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the associations of a range of personal and clinical variables with bladder cancer survival in men and women in NSW to see if we could explain why bladder cancer survival is consistently poorer in women than in men. PATIENTS AND METHODS:All 6880 cases of bladder cancers diagnosed in NSW betwee...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Tracey E,Watt H,Currow D,Young J,Armstrong B

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review patients who had vesico-ureteric reflux corrected surgically by ureteric reimplantation during childhood, and thus assess their long-term outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between 1970 and 1979, 322 children underwent ureteric reimplantation; 100 (79 women and 21 men) were re-assessed and the long-term...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Mor Y,Leibovitch I,Zalts R,Lotan D,Jonas P,Ramon J

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the urinary cytological changes caused by flexible cystoscopy and provide clinical guidelines for a reliable time interval for urinary cytological examination after flexible cystoscopy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Forty-eight patients attending for flexible cystoscopy were recruited into the study. Each ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： McVey RJ,Persad RV,Brown SC,Robinson E,Payne SR

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report our 12-year experience with radiological treatment (ureteric embolization) for refractory urinary fistula, as malignancy, radiation therapy, and/or chronic inflammation increase the risk of lower urinary tract fistula after surgical urinary diversion, which can lead to significant morbidity, and for...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Shindel AW,Zhu H,Hovsepian DM,Brandes SB

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of antimuscarinic treatment with tolterodine combined with behavioural modification as a first-line treatment, before invasive investigation, in children with non-neurogenic voiding dysfunction but no obvious anatomical or neurogenic cause. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The study comprised 44 chi...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Ayan S,Kaya K,Topsakal K,Kilicarslan H,Gokce G,Gultekin Y

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess atypical cytology as a positive bladder tumour marker and to determine if indexing atypical cytology to nuclear matrix protein-22 (NMP22) can decrease the false-positive results or increase the positive predictive value (PPV). PATIENTS AND METHODS:In all, 197 patients at risk of bladder cancer wer...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Raina R,Pahlajani G,Ponsky LE,Agarwal A,Zippe CD

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the possible influence of non-pharmacological interventions, such as compressive bandages and intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC), on leg oedema and nocturnal polyuria (NP), and the possible interrelation between both pathologies in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI), as patients with SC...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Viaene A,Roggeman S,Goessaert AS,Kessler TM,Mehnert U,Besien VV,De Muynck M,Everaert K

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report our experience with the Safyre (Promedon, Cordoba, Argentina), a new re-adjustable and minimally invasive sling for treating stress urinary incontinence (SUI), which combines the efficacy of slings with re-adjustability. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In all, 126 consecutive patients with a clinical and urod...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Palma PC,Dambros M,Riccetto CZ,Thiel M,Netto NR Jr

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:• To investigate the relationship between pretreatment testosterone levels and pathological specimen characteristics, by prospectively examining serum androgen concentrations in a well-studied cohort of patients who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP) for localized prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:• A ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Xylinas E,Ploussard G,Durand X,Fabre A,Salomon L,Allory Y,Vordos D,Hoznek A,Abbou CC,de la Taille A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the use of commercially available single-layer small intestinal submucosa (SIS) for urethral replacement, both as an onlay and as a tube, in a rabbit model. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Thirty-six male rabbits were assigned to four experimental groups. Group 1 had the ventral wall of the penile urethra ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： El-Assmy A,El-Hamid MA,Hafez AT

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has revolutionized the detection and management of patients with prostate cancer. Despite this there has always been a concern among clinicians about the usefulness of total PSA levels as a marker for prostate cancer. We discuss the use of calculated variables and mo...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Shariat SF,Karam JA,Margulis V,Karakiewicz PI

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To systematically review and create nomograms of flaccid and erect penile size measurements. METHODS:Study key eligibility criteria: measurement of penis size by a health professional using a standard procedure; a minimum of 50 participants per sample. EXCLUSION CRITERIA:samples with a congenital or acquire...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Veale D,Miles S,Bramley S,Muir G,Hodsoll J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the performance of a primary magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)/ultrasonography (US) fusion-guided targeted biopsy (TB), and in combination with an added systematic biopsy (SB). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Analysis of 318 consecutive biopsy-naïve men with suspicious multiparametric MRI (mpMRI; Prostate Ima...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Maxeiner A,Kittner B,Blobel C,Wiemer L,Hofbauer SL,Fischer T,Asbach P,Haas M,Penzkofer T,Fuller F,Miller K,Cash H

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether men with premature ejaculation who fail to respond to 25 mg clomipramine as needed improve when taking 10-30 mg clomipramine daily. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:Four men with premature ejaculation whose ejaculation latencies increased minimally or not at all when taking 25 mg clomipramine as nee...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Rowland DL,De Gouveia Brazao CA,Koos Slob A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present early outcome data from patients treated for invasive penile cancers with organ-sparing surgery, as the treatment of such malignancies has traditionally either been amputative surgery or radical radiotherapy, both associated with significant physical and psychosexual morbidity. PATIENTS AND METHOD...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Pietrzak P,Corbishley C,Watkin N

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the validity of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) as a tumour marker in men with clinically localized prostate cancer who have selected watchful waiting, by determining if serial PSA level measurements are correlated with findings of malignancy or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) at serial endo...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Coakley FV,Chen I,Qayyum A,Westphalen AC,Carroll PR,Hricak H,Chen MH,Kurhanewicz J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the feasibility of laparoscopic augmentation cystoplasty (LAC) in the porcine model and to compare LAC using standard bowel vs a small intestinal submucosa (SIS) allograft. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Fourteen female pigs underwent LAC; six had standard ileal AC and eight AC with SIS. All the pigs ha...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Wang DS,Anderson DA,Fretz PC,Nguyen TT,Winfield HN

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the results of transperitoneal laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy as a separate staging procedure in patients with early prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The results were reviewed from the first 27 patients with prostate cancer admitted for laparoscopic lymphadenectomy between January 1994 an...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Shackley DC,Irving SO,Brough WA,O'Reilly PH

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare prospectively obtained symptom scores (pre-tests) with retrospective assessment (then-tests) in patients with newly diagnosed advanced prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients with newly diagnosed locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer were recruited. They completed the International...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Rees J,Waldron D,O'Boyle C,Ewings P,MacDonagh R

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the value of gene-expression profiling as a predictor of the status of the regional nodes in patients with penile carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Tumour samples of 56 patients with penile squamous cell carcinoma were analysed for the gene expression on 35 k oligoarrays; 32 were from patients wit...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kroon BK,Leijte JA,van Boven H,Wessels LF,Velds A,Horenblas S,van't Veer LJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the changes in cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), E-cadherin and alpha-catenin expression after partial bladder outlet obstruction (PBOO), and whether a selective COX-2 inhibitor (celecoxib) might inhibit COX-2 expression and have beneficial effects on urothelial cell-to-cell interactions in rats subjecte...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Erdogru T,Celik-Ozenci C,Seval Y,Emreoglu I,Ustunel I,Korgun E,Koksal TI,Baykara M,Demir R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the replicability and robustness of findings about urological symptoms in men and women, classified using an objective statistical method, cluster analysis, by planned sensitivity analyses conducted within and across two large, epidemiological studies of lower urinary tract symptoms. METHODS:Sensitiv...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Rosen RC,Coyne KS,Henry D,Link CL,Cinar A,Aiyer LP,Mollon P,Kaplan SA,Roehrborn CG,Thompson C

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00