Metastatectomy prior to immunochemotherapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review the incidence of healthcare-associated infections/urinary tract infection (UTI), risk factors, microorganisms isolated and antibiotic resistances in patients who underwent lower urinary tract endoscopic surgery (LUTES) in a tertiary care hospital. METHODS:A prospective observational study was carr...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Sopeña-Sutil R,Medina-Polo J,Justo-Quintas J,Gil-Moradillo J,Garcia-Gonzalez L,Benítez-Sala R,Alonso-Isa M,Lara-Isla A,Tejido-Sanchez A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the association between the development of a urethral stricture (US) and disease-free survival for patients with localized prostate cancer treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients with clinical stage T1-T2N0M0 prostate cancer were eligible for treatment wit...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Komura K,Inamoto T,Black PC,Fujisue Y,Katsuoka Y,Watsuji T,Azuma H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that diabetes mellitus is accompanied by complications of sexual dysfunction and it is believed that diabetic neuropathy may cause impotence. In our study, we found that not all the patients who visited our center with the chief complaint of diabetic impotence were suffering from organic impotence, an...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Takanami M,Nagao K,Ishii N,Miura K,Shirai M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to assess the impact of a virtual reality trainer in improving percutaneous renal access skills of urological trainees. METHODS:A total of 36 urology trainees participated in this prospective study. Initially, they were taken through the exercise of gaining access to the lower pole calyceal ...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Papatsoris AG,Shaikh T,Patel D,Bourdoumis A,Bach C,Buchholz N,Masood J,Junaid I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study assesses the differences in the presentations, complications and metabolic abnormalities of children with renal calyceal microlithiasis (RCM) and overt urolithiasis in different pediatric ages. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A total of 465 children with urolithiasis were investigated retrospectively. Pa...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Fahimi D,Habibi Zoham M,Sheikh M,Salabati M,Ghazanfari A,Firouzi M,Honarmand M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small group of patients with nephrolithiasis who forms mixed (calcium oxalate and uric acid) calculi presents particular problems in their clinical management. In 3,158 stones analyzed in our laboratory, we found 158 mixed calculi in 86 of the patients. In this work, the clinical and biochemical results obtained fro...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Alvarez Arroyo MV,Traba ML,Rapado A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To introduce our modified retroperitoneoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (RPLDN) techniques and estimate the learning curve. METHODS:We retrospectively evaluated 121 consecutive donors who underwent modified RPLDN performed by a single surgeon. While the surgeon controlled the renal vessels, one hand was ins...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Zhu D,Hong P,Zhu J,Ye X,Chen Y,Fan Y,Zhang Z,Shen C,Yu W,Jin J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to examine the relationship between chronic prostatic inflammation and prostatic calculi, and clinical parameters of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). MATERIALS AND METHODS:This study was based on 225 patients who underwent transurethral resection of the prostate for BPH. Chronic inflammati...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Kim SH,Jung KI,Koh JS,Min KO,Cho SY,Kim HW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phytate as sodium salt has been used at high doses to treat stone-former patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria. The experimental and clinical hypocalciuric effects of dietary fiber have also been assigned to the presence of phytate as calcium-magnesium salt (phytin). As a consequence of the additional inte...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Grases F,Perelló J,Simonet BM,Prieto RM,García-Raja A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined Southern blot analysis of genomic DNAs from 70 patients with sporadic renal cell carcinoma, using the human L-myc oncogene fragment as a hybridization probe. Our purpose was to study the relationship between the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of the L-myc and the frequencies of metastasis....

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Kakehi Y,Taki Y,Yoshida O

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new device for the simultaneous in vivo measurement of pressure and developed force in the ureter is introduced. The 5-French catheter was cystoscopically inserted into the ureters of 12 dogs under anesthesia. The forms of the peristaltic waves for pressure and force show considerable differences. A basal force anal...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Pohl J,Dambacher U,Marx G

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The German Research Activities on Natural Urologicals (GRANU) study was a randomized, partially blinded, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial that investigated the efficacy of pumpkin seed in men with lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH/LUTS). SUBJECTS AND METH...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Vahlensieck W,Theurer C,Pfitzer E,Patz B,Banik N,Engelmann U

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and biomedical research give hope to many patients who need bio-implants. Tissue engineering applications have already been developed based on bioreactors. Physiological ureter implants, however, do not still function sufficiently, as they represent tubular hollow structures w...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Seifarth V,Gossmann M,Janke HP,Grosse JO,Becker C,Heschel I,Artmann GM,Temiz Artmann A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the results after implantation of a urethral stent in 6 patients with recurrent urethral strictures. Four patients had strictures located in close vicinity to the external sphincter. In 3 of these 4 patients open urethroplasty procedures had failed. The treatment was successful in 5 of the 6 patients with ...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Baert L,van Poppel H,Werbrouck P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:To evaluate the role of serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) in the prognosis and follow-up evaluation of patients with urothelial carcinoma, the authors studied the association of the serum level and positive rate with clinical features such as infiltration and metastasis in 164 patients admitted to t...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Sashide K,Isobe H,Wakumoto Y,Hanazawa K,Fujita K,Fujime M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The short-term effects of intravesical chemoimmunotherapy with epirubicin and bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) administered repeatedly for prophylaxis of recurrence of superficial bladder cancer (pTa, pT1) were investigated in 24 patients aged a median of 70 years between March 1996 and February 1999, and were co...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Tozawa K,Okamura T,Sasaki S,Kawai N,Ito Y,Hayashi Y,Kohri K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 74-year-old man with a right inguinal hernia since 15 years was admitted because of inguinal pain and enlarged ipsilateral testis. Surgical exploration revealed a hernia with an empty hernial sac and three tumoral masses in the spermatic cord. Tumoral masses, spermatic cord, and testis were removed. Histological exa...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Nistal M,Regadera J,Jareño E,Paniagua R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of phallic stretch on bulbous urethral stricture while performing retrograde urethrography (RUG). METHODS:Between July 2009 and June 2012, 197 adult males with stricture pattern on uroflowmetry underwent RUG. Two films were taken, first without (film A) an...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Kathpalia R,Dalela D,Goel A,Mandal S,Sankhwar SN,Yadav R,Nagathan D,Dalela D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amputation of the penis is by no means the quickest and least invasive of the surgical methods of treating penis carcinoma. Radiation therapy has the advantage of preserving the integrity of the penis and does not render a later operation of the penis impossible. Regional lymph node metastases should be removed surgic...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Hess F,Prignitz R,Walthers E

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship among serum mean platelet volume (MPV) levels, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)/lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and metabolic syndrome (MetS), and study the potential role of serum MPV levels in BPH/LUTS progression in an indirect manner. ...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Zhao S,Tang J,Shao S,Yan Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To help bolster penile tension mechanically, we have tried implantation of silicone penile prostheses varying in type. Our simple and apparently successful procedures for organic impotence with the implantation of intrapenile silicone prostheses may well deserve recommendation in view of spinal impairment therapeutica...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Shishito S,Shirai M,Matsuda S

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The last decade has seen the emergence of a variety of supine positions for carrying out percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). These positions all differ with regard to ease of puncture under image guidance, operative field availability, ability to make and dilate multiple tracts and ease of combining retrogr...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Bach C,Goyal A,Kumar P,Kachrilas S,Papatsoris AG,Buchholz N,Masood J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is a key enzyme involved in the production of prostaglandins and its inhibitors have been shown to induce apoptosis in a variety of cancer cells. We reasoned that combination treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cells with COX-2 inhibitors and anticancer agents may result in syner...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Sato N,Mizutani Y,Li YN,Fujiwara J,Ishida H,Toiyama D,Abe K,Hayashi I,Nakanishi H,Kawauchi A,Miki T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 231 adults the frequency and the pattern of the retroaortic left renal vein were studied. We observed a retroaortic left renal vein in 9.09% ("renal collar" in 5.62%, single retroaortic left renal vein in 3.46%. According to our results and to the findings in the literature a retroaortic left renal vein can be expe...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Schmidt GP,Loeweneck H

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and other microbes was studied in 94 semen samples from asymptomatic infertile males. Simultaneously, we sought evidence for inflammation of the genital tract by determining the polymorphonuclear granulocyte (PMN)-elastase concentration in the seminal plasma. The C. trachomatis ...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Yoshida K,Kobayashi N,Negishi T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:24 h urinary pyrophosphate excretion was studied in 20 normal healthy subjects and 75 idiopathic stone formers from north-western regions of India. The mean 24-hour urinary excretion of pyrophosphate was significantly low in stone formers (50.67 +/- 2.16 mumol/24 h) as compared to that of normal subjects (71.46 +/- 5....

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Sharma S,Vaidyanathan S,Thind SK,Nath R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marked differences were observed in the mechanical reactions of human and guinea pig vas deferens to prostaglandins, irradiation, and cooling. In human preparations prostaglandin E1 (0.1-1 ng/ml) had an augmentory effect on the contractile response after electrical neurostimulation (10 Hz, 0.3 ms, 3 s), but no visible...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Michailov MC,Murray AB,Zettler F,Grindler-Greimel HW

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare and highly malignant neoplasm. We present the case of a 51-year-old male patient with a left-sided ACC admitted to hospital with ipsilateral flank pain, weight loss, difficulty in breathing, abdominal discomfort and swelling and bilateral leg edema. Thoracoabdominal computed to...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Yavascaoglu I,Yilmaz M,Kordan Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This article describes our experience of using a totally extraperitoneal approach for endoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy and inguinal hernia repair with the mesh technique in one procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A total of 52 patients underwent modified pelvic lymph node dissection for the staging of prostate c...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Stolzenburg JU,Pfeiffer H,Neuhaus J,Sommerfeld M,Dorschner W

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This randomized controlled study compared a novel transparent urinary tract simulator with the traditional opaque urinary tract simulator as an aid for efficiently teaching urological surgical procedures. METHODS:Senior medical students were tested on their understanding of urological theory before and after...

journal_title：Urologia internationalis

authors： Zhong X,Wang P,Feng J,Hu W,Huang C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00