A closer look at serum prostatic acid phosphatase as screening test.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the efficacy, tolerability, and quality of life benefits of bicalutamide (Casodex) 150-mg/day monotherapy and castration in previously untreated nonmetastatic (M0) advanced prostate cancer. METHODS:A total of 480 patients with Stage T3/T4 nonmetastatic disease randomly received oral bicalutamide ...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Iversen P,Tyrrell CJ,Kaisary AV,Anderson JB,Baert L,Tammela T,Chamberlain M,Carroll K,Gotting-Smith K,Blackledge GR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More and more renal artery aneurysms are being diagnosed, especially after the introduction of selective arteriography for the evaluation of renovascular hypertension. However, renal artery aneurysm still remains a rare entity. The pathogenesis of renal artery aneurysm is identical to the pathogenesis of arterial aneu...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Altebarmakian VK,Caldamone AA,Dachelet RJ,May AG

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare aspiration and sclerotherapy using sodium tetradecylsulfate (STDS) with open hydrocelectomy in the treatment of hydroceles with regard to safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. METHODS:Patients with symptomatic hydroceles were prospectively enrolled in an aspiration and sclerotherapy protocol ...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Beiko DT,Kim D,Morales A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relative costs of prone percutaneous nephrostolithotomy (PCNL) versus PCNL performed with the patient in the Galdakao-modified supine Valdivia (GMSV) position to determine whether a cost differential exists. METHODS:We compared prone PCNL with PCNL using GMSV positioning. Cost data were obtain...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Friedlander JI,Duty BD,Smith AD,Okeke Z

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of the expression profile of E-cadherin and N-cadherin in urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract (UC-UUT) on the probability of intra- and extravesical disease recurrence in patients undergoing nephroureterectomy. METHODS:This study included 59 consecutive patients diagnose...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Muramaki M,Miyake H,Terakawa T,Kusuda Y,Fujisawa M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Partin tables provide pretreatment information regarding the probability of various pathologic stages (eg, organ confined, extraprostatic extension, and seminal vesicle or lymph node involvement). Although the pathologic stage serves as an excellent surrogate for outcome after radical prostatectomy (RRP)...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Khan MA,Partin AW,Mangold LA,Epstein JI,Walsh PC

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the risk of bladder rupture of bladder augmentation using ileocystoplasty versus that of autoaugmentation with myomyotomy in a rat model. METHODS:Bladder rupture pressure and volume of three groups of female Sprague-Dawley rats were determined by cystometry. The first group of 11 rats had undergo...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Rivas DA,Chancellor MB,Huang B,Epple A,Figueroa TE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if use of the hematuria risk index can reduce testing and cost, while maintaining equivalent lesion detection in patients with asymptomatic microscopic hematuria. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Retrospective cohort study of 1049 patients at single institution. Hematuria risk index score was calculated ba...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Rabinowitz DE,Wood AM,Marziliano A,Perez-Orozco A,Ng A,Diefenbach MA,Samson P,Vira MA,Han J,Schulman A,Hall SJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sildenafil has been demonstrated to be safe and effective in the treatment of men with erectile dysfunction. The role of sildenafil in treating women with sexual dysfunction has heretofore not been reported. The purpose of this preliminary study was to ascertain the response of postmenopausal women with self...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Kaplan SA,Reis RB,Kohn IJ,Ikeguchi EF,Laor E,Te AE,Martins AC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of renovascular hypertension with renal artery stenosis concealed by aneurysms. Arteriography demonstrated no apparent renal artery stenosis, but did reveal aneurysms on the left renal artery. Captopril-loaded renoscintigraphy could not detect disturbed renal perfusion. High basal and exaggerated pl...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Tanemoto M,Abe T,Satoh F,Ito S

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish whether a difference in the clinical outcomes of patients with progressive and primary muscle-invasive bladder cancer exists. METHODS:The records of patients who had undergone radical cystectomy for bladder urothelial carcinoma from 1990 to 2005 were reviewed. According to our inclusion criteri...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Türkölmez K,Tokgöz H,Reşorlu B,Köse K,Bedük Y

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred girls with recurrent urinary tract infections and documented reflux were seen in our private practice during the last twenty years. All patients received medical treatment for three to forty-eight months (an average of fifteen months) after which the 250 who were not cured were submitted to corrective sur...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Lyon RP,Marshall SK,Scott MP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the efficacy of transvaginal tape mobilization as a method of treating urinary retention after tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedures, and secondly to evaluate the time to resumption of voiding function after TVT procedures. METHODS:Postoperative voiding function and the 1-year continence st...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Nguyen JN

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies to detect ultrastructural changes in testicular tissues after a fifteen-minute exposure to ultrasonic waves were done in 10 men undergoing bilateral orchiectomies for prostatic carcinoma. Examination of Sertoli cells and germ cells in different stages of differentiation failed to reveal significant differences...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Grunberger I,Suhrland MJ,Greco MA,Glasser J,Al-Askari S

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an analysis of the United States Renal Data System to determine the incidence, risk factors and prognosis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in a national population of patients receiving incident long-term dialysis. In Cox regression, male gender, older age, end-stage renal disease caused by obstruction, tu...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Hurst FP,Jindal RM,Fletcher JJ,Dharnidharka V,Gorman G,Lechner B,Nee R,Agodoa LY,Abbott KC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion of either a semirigid or inflatable penile prosthesis at the completion of surgery for various malignancies was performed. Twelve men had implants and were followed at least one year with excellent results. Careful preoperative sexual counseling with the patient's spouse is recommended and adds immeasureably...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Bennett AH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To utilize Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to quantify costs of managing recurrent urinary tract infections (RUTI) in women. METHODS:RUTI was defined as ≥2 UTIs in 6 months or ≥3 UTIs in 12 months. A care-delivery value chain outlined RUTI management (visits, urine studies, and imaging) for acute UTI foll...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Gaitonde S,Malik RD,Zimmern PE

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the safety and efficacy of holmium laser resection for primary, clinically nonmuscle-invasive, bladder cancer (HoLRBT) compared with standard transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT). METHODS:The data from a total of 212 consecutive patients with primary nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer w...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Zhu Y,Jiang X,Zhang J,Chen W,Shi B,Xu Z

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrogenic rests are nodular collections of undifferentiated renal blastema cells in the postnatal kidney that are recognized as putative precursor lesions of Wilms tumor. In this study, we report the case of a 3-year-old boy who was diagnosed with a hyperplastic intralobar nephrogenic rest extending through the rena...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Mizuno K,Hayashi Y,Tozawa K,Iwatsuki S,Kojima Y,Kohri K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using cultured HeLa S3 cells an ID50 of 2.5 micrograms/ml was found after a twenty-four-hour incubation with estradiol-17 beta- 3N -bis-(2-chloroethyl) carbamate (estramustine). Similar ID90 values were found in two Walker 256 rat carcinoma cell lines which were either sensitive or resistant to nitrogen mustards. Alka...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Tew KD,Hartley-Asp B

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether Zuidex using a non-cystoscopy mid-urethral injection technique produces as good a result (i.e. was not inferior) as Contigen injected endoscopically at the bladder neck in the treatment of urinary stress incontinence secondary to intrinsic sphincter deficiency in adult women. METHODS:A ...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Lightner D,Rovner E,Corcos J,Payne C,Brubaker L,Drutz H,Steinhoff G,Zuidex Study Group.

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of the peripheral vein levels of the steroids in the adrenal biosynthetic pathway affords a further possible definitive method of differentiating adrenocortical carcinoma from adrenal adenoma in the presence of Cushing syndrome. In patients with adrenal carcinoma the blood levels of 17-hydroxyprogesterone,...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Gabrilove JL,Freiberg EK,Nicolis GL

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the potential protective effects of selenium and lycopene, either alone or in combination, for cisplatin-induced oxidative stress and testicular dysfunction in male rats. METHODS:A total of 50 adult male Wistar rats were divided into 5 groups of 10 animals each, as follows: control group (trea...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Salem EA,Salem NA,Maarouf AM,Serefoglu EC,Hellstrom WJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate comparatively fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and cytology performed on exfoliated urothelial cells obtained from voided urine and bladder washings as a method of diagnosis and follow-up in patients with transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder. METHODS:Thirty patients with con...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Degtyar P,Neulander E,Zirkin H,Yusim I,Douvdevani A,Mermershtain W,Kaneti J,Manor E

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To provide a brief overview of intravesical dimethly sulfoxide (DMSO) therapy for interstitial cystitis and offer a practical approach to patient treatment. METHODS:A review of the literature and a summation of the experience with treatment of > 300 patients with DMSO at the Interstitial Cystitis Clinic, Ne...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Parkin J,Shea C,Sant GR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheochromocytoma accounts for about 0.1 per cent of patients with diastolic hyperstension. It mimics many diseases varying from anxiety psychoneurosis to intracranial tumors. Cardinal symptoms include sevre headache (72 to 92 per cent), sweating (60 tp 70 per cent), palpitations (51 to 73 per cent), and hypertension (...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Juan D

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital anorchism is a rare condition. Bilateral impa-pable undescended testes are relatively common by comparison. Surgical exploration has been regarded as the final arbiter between anorchism and bilateral cryptorchism. Exploration has not proved completely reliable in making this differentiation. Endocrine studi...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Levitt SB,Kogan SJ,Schneider KM,Becker JM,Sobel EH,Mortimer RH,Engel RM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the correlation between Visual Prostate Symptom Score (VPSS) and the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) and uroflowmetry parameters in men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) with literature review. METHODS:Patients were pooled from 4 different urology clinics in Turkey and divided ...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Ölçücü MT,Aydın ME,Avcı S,Koraş Ö,Eren AE,Yılmaz K,Ateş M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether the addition of a single dose of an aminoglycoside to a fluoroquinolone-based prophylaxis regime would decrease septic complications associated with transrectal prostate biopsy. METHODS:A retrospective survey of all patients undergoing transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy (TRUS-P...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Lorber G,Benenson S,Rosenberg S,Gofrit ON,Pode D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the role of intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP) as a predictive factor for adverse clinical outcomes in patients treated with dutasteride for lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to benign prostatic enlargement (BPE). METHODS:In total, 111 patients treated with dutasteride for symptomatic B...

journal_title：Urology

authors： Yoshida T,Kinoshita H,Yoshida K,Mishima T,Taniguchi H,Yanishi M,Komai Y,Yasuda K,Sugi M,Matsuda T

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00