Extracorporeal shock-wave therapy for treating chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a feasibility study and the first clinical results.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether the position of the working channel affects the effectiveness of flexible ureteroscopy. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We compared the ureteroscopes Flex-X2S and Flex-XC (working channel at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions, respectively) in eight cavities of a K-Box model, simulating the distribution...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Villa L,Ventimiglia E,Proietti S,Giusti G,Briganti A,Salonia A,Montorsi F,Doizi S,Traxer O

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and efficacy of the tension-free vaginal tape procedure in the treatment of primary genuine stress incontinence. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A two-centre follow-up study was conducted on 40 women with urodynamically confirmed primary genuine stress incontinence who had a tension-free vaginal ta...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Moran PA,Ward KL,Johnson D,Smirni WE,Hilton P,Bibby J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of histotripsy treatment parameters (pulse number and pulse-repetition frequency [PRF]) on the efficiency of histotripsy induced homogenisation of the prostatic urethra. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In all, 34 transabdominal prostate histotripsy treatments were applied along a perpendicular pla...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Schade GR,Styn NR,Ives KA,Hall TL,Roberts WW

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the pattern and prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and related help-seeking behaviour in men of South Asian origin living in the UK, and to compare this to the white population. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:Data were obtained as part of the Leicestershire MRC Incontinence Study. Community-...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Taylor J,McGrother CW,Harrison SC,Assassa PR,Leicestershire MRC Incontinence Study Team.

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To illustrate the ultrastructural fibre composition of the rat cavernosal nerve at serial levels, from its origin in the main pelvic ganglion to its termination in the corpus cavernosum of the distal penile shaft, and to develop a technique that permits repeated electrophysiological recording from the fibres ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Schaumburg HH,Zotova E,Cannella B,Raine CS,Arezzo J,Tar M,Melman A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe and evaluate the outcomes of a new epididymovasostomy technique. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Nine patients with obstructive azoospermia were treated at the Minia University Hospital using a new microsurgical bilateral epididymovasostomy technique. The technique involved the opening of a small window in...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Hussein A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review long-term oncological and functional outcomes of testicular-sparing surgery (TSS) in men presenting with bilateral or monorchide testicular tumours at one of five reference centres for testicular neoplasm and infertility. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We review 25 cases of bilateral synchrone and metachrone...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Ferretti L,Sargos P,Gross-Goupil M,Izard V,Wallerand H,Huyghe E,Rigot JM,Durand X,Benoit G,Ferriere JM,Droupy S

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To highlight the existence of Schistosoma haematobium in certain ethnic minority groups in Britain and in English citizens who have recently visited Africa and the Middle East, so that general practitioners and paediatric nephrologists/urologists are aware of its occurrence and consider it among the different...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Samuel M,Misra D,Larcher V,Price E

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether heat, used in transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT) for benign prostatic hyperplasia and which causes necrotic lesions within the adenoma, induces apoptosis in benign human prostatic stromal cells. Materials and methods Prostatic stromal cells were cultured from benign human prosta...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Brehmer M,Svensson I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in patients with prostate cancer and in control patients with no malignancy, and to evaluate any possible influence of testicular androgen withdrawal on the level of IGF-1 in patients with prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:IGF-1 was mea...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kurek R,Tunn UW,Eckart O,Aumüller G,Wong J,Renneberg H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the predictive accuracy of the Kattan preoperative nomogram by comparing predictions at 5 years with actual progression in patients who had a radical prostatectomy (RP). MATERIALS AND METHODS:We reviewed the data for 928 patients treated by RP as a first-line treatment for localized prostate can...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Rouprêt M,Hupertan V,Comperat E,Drouin SJ,Phé V,Xylinas E,Demanse D,Sibony M,Richard F,Cussenot O

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the risk of failure during drug development in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and to identify factors that could improve outcomes. METHODS:We investigated CRPC by analysing compounds in phase I to phase III clinical trials between 1998 and April 2011. Drug development failures were...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Tenuta A,Klotz L,Parker JL

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of a deep and narrow pelvis on apical positive surgical margins (PSM) at radical prostatectomy (RP), controlling for other clinical and pathological variables and surgical approach, i.e. open retropubic (RRP) vs laparoscopic (LRP), as apical dissection is expected to be more challengin...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Matikainen MP,von Bodman CJ,Secin FP,Yunis LH,Vora K,Guillonneau B,Laudone V,Eastham JA,Scardino PT,Akin O,Rabbani F

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate long-term recurrence-free and progression-free survival of noninvasive bladder tumours (stage Ta), and the significance of simple risk factors, including concomitant epithelial dysplasia. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The study included 217 patients with primary noninvasive bladder tumour (stage Ta) who w...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Zieger K,Wolf H,Olsen PR,Hojgaard K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the metabolic changes between men with advanced prostate cancer commenced on a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist and those treated with orchiectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Fifty-eight hormone-naive men with advanced prostate cancer were randomly assigned (1:1) to either subcapsular orch...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Østergren PB,Kistorp C,Fode M,Bennedbaek FN,Faber J,Sønksen J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To present the oncological and functional outcomes of salvage focal (SFC) and salvage total (STC) cryoablation for recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) after failed primary radiotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:From March 2003 to August 2010, 50 men with biopsy-proven unilateral (n = 25) or bilateral (n = 25) radio...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： de Castro Abreu AL,Bahn D,Leslie S,Shoji S,Silverman P,Desai MM,Gill IS,Ukimura O

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? With recent improvements in the prognosis for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), focus is now shifting towards maximising clinical benefit from targeted therapies. Factors other than efficacy data are increasingly being considered when select...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Bex A,Gore M,Mulders P,Sternberg CN

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate a group of young women undergoing complex vaginoplasty, which may be defined as where there has already been previous complex pelvic surgery and the patient is unsuitable for conservative treatment or minor surgical revision. PATIENTS AND METHODS:All patients who had undergone a complex vaginopla...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Davies MC,Creighton SM,Woodhouse CR

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To systematically review the literature on the prognostic value of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) and embryonal carcinoma (EC) for occult metastatic disease in clinical stage I nonseminomatous germ cell tumour (CS I NSGCT). MATERIALS AND METHODS:The PubMed, Embase (OVID) and SCOPUS databases were searched up ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Blok JM,Pluim I,Daugaard G,Wagner T,Jóźwiak K,Wilthagen EA,Looijenga LHJ,Meijer RP,Bosch JLHR,Horenblas S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the results of retroperitoneal laparoscopic with open partial nephroureterectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Laparoscopic retroperitoneal partial nephroureterectomy was undertaken in 15 children (13 upper and two lower poles; median age at the time of surgery 61 months, range 5-212). A three-trocar ret...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： El-Ghoneimi A,Farhat W,Bolduc S,Bagli D,McLorie G,Khoury A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify a phenotype that could be informative and prognostic in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) peripheral blood was evaluated for TH1, TH2, regulatory T cells (Tregs), natural killer (NK) and NKT cells and for cytokines/chemokines. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Peripheral blood from 77 patients with RCC...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Polimeno M,Napolitano M,Costantini S,Portella L,Esposito A,Capone F,Guerriero E,Trotta A,Zanotta S,Pucci L,Longo N,Perdonà S,Pignata S,Castello G,Scala S

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe temporal changes in patient characteristics and outcomes for radical cystectomy (RC) in England between 1995 and 2002, using routinely collected administrative data. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Data were extracted from the Hospital Episode Statistics database of the Department of Health in England, des...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Nuttall MC,van der Meulen J,McIntosh G,Gillatt D,Emberton M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if FK506-binding proteins (FKBPs) are localized to the autonomic nerve supply of the human penis because FK506 (an immunosuppressant drug) has been linked to enhanced nerve regeneration after nerve injury and neurodegenerative diseases by binding to FKBPs, a select group of immunophilins. MATERI...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Lagoda G,Sezen SF,Liu T,Höke A,Burnett AL

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the outcomes for laparoscopic vascular hitch (VH) and dismembered pyeloplasty in patients with pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO) secondary to crossing vessels (CV). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients who underwent laparoscopic management of CV at our institution were identified between 2008 an...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kim JK,Keefe DT,Rickard M,Milford K,Lorenzo AJ,Chua ME

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Urothelial cell carcinomas (UCC), including bladder cancer and upper urinary tract cancer, are the second most common malignancy of the urogenital tract after prostate cancer. It is a critical issue to differentiate accurately those patients whose tumour will recur and/or progress after initial treatment from those wi...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Phé V,Cussenot O,Rouprêt M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish a consensus on the utility of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) to identify patients for focal therapy. METHODS:Urological surgeons, radiologists, and basic researchers, from Europe and North America participated in a consensus meeting about the use of mpMRI in focal therapy of ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Muller BG,Fütterer JJ,Gupta RT,Katz A,Kirkham A,Kurhanewicz J,Moul JW,Pinto PA,Rastinehad AR,Robertson C,de la Rosette J,Sanchez-Salas R,Jones JS,Ukimura O,Verma S,Wijkstra H,Marberger M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:• Mid-urethral synthetic slings (MUSS) have grown in acceptance and popularity to gain a foremost position in stress urinary incontinence (SUI) surgery. • There are numerous studies that provide a large amount of Level 1 and 2 evidence that support the concept of a sling placed at the level of the mid-urethra. • Long-...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Fong ED,Nitti VW

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:WHAT'S KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT? AND WHAT DOES THE STUDY ADD?: For patients who are unfit for extirpative surgery, percutaneous cryoablation (PCA) presents a minimally-invasive alternative for the treatment of renal masses. PCA has been demonstrated to be safe, with complication rates <10% being reported consist...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kim EH,Tanagho YS,Bhayani SB,Saad NE,Benway BM,Figenshau RS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00