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Biomarkers in prostate cancer detection

1 July 2018 | | Basic Science Research, Technological Developments, Urologic Oncology
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men with an estimated prevalence of 1.1 million worldwide in 2012. This heterogeneous disease resulted in approximately 307,000 deaths, making it the fifth leading cause of cancer-related death in men...

Antimuscarinics and behaviour in patients with spinal dysraphism

1 May 2014 | | Reconstructive Urology | CBCL, CNS, Child Behavior Checklist, SD, antimuscarinic antagonists, behavior, central nervous system, meningomyelocele, neurogenic, spinal dysraphism, urinary bladder
Since the 1980s patients with spinal dysraphism have had aggressive bladder management with clean intermittent catheterisation and anticholinergic therapy from early on in life. This strategy aims at improving lower and therefore upper urinary tract function thus decreasing the risk...

Radiological appearances of non-vascular renal anatomical variants

1 September 2015 | | Uroradiology
Anatomical variants of the renal tract are common and, although often asymptomatic, may present with complications. It is essential to identify anatomical variants, as this may have an impact upon surgical planning and management. This article aims to demonstrate radiological...

Figure 1 app

1 July 2016 | | Technological Developments
Figure 1 is an app that enables the sharing of medical images to aid learning. In essence, Figure 1 is an Instagram for healthcare. It was launched in 2013 and now connects a network of up to one million healthcare...

Urological Complications of Malignancy

1 January 2014 | | Urologic Oncology
Case 1 1. What does this sagittal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan show? 2. Which cancers commonly cause this? 3. What is the acute management? Case 2 1. What is the diagnosis? 2. What local effects can this mass cause?...

Penile cancer

1 July 2021 | | Urologic Oncology
Case 1 A 67-year-old man presents with a worsening red patch over the past three months. It looks velvety in some areas. What is the most likely diagnosis? What are the risk factors? How do you classify this condition? How...

An interview with ChatGPT (3.5)

4 May 2023 | | Technological Developments
For this month’s Digital Review I explored the hype surrounding Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) from Open AI. The free version is still available at https://chat.openai.com/chat (ChatGPT 3.5) and was used in this article. At the time of writing this...

Delivering a laparoscopic urology workshop in West Africa: our initial experience in Senegal

4 September 2020 | | Endourology and Stones, Technological Developments
Despite universal adoption and significant technological innovation since its inception around 30 years ago, access to laparoscopic surgery remains lacking in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Whilst some progress has been made in recent years to bridge the gap with the developed...

Nocturia – the Cinderella of lower urinary tract symptoms

1 March 2014 | | Functional Urology
Nocturia is defined as waking during the night (at least once) to urinate. The important part of the definition relates to the necessity of sleep to precede the episode (although whether sleep must follow the episode is less clear). The...

ICS updates on continence care: making sense of detrusor underactivity and the underactive bladder

1 July 2016 | | Functional Urology
Countless epidemiological studies have established the frequent occurrence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and the significant burden these symptoms incur. For the most part of the past three decades, there has been an overwhelming focus on detrusor overactivity (DO)...

Sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma

1 September 2017 | | Urologic Oncology
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) represents 2-3% of all cancers [1]. It is an adenocarcinoma making up 85% of all renal malignancies. Sarcomatoid transformation is a microscopically identified feature of RCC accounting for 5% of all RCCs [2]. Known as sarcomatoid...

Image-guided renal cryoablation

1 November 2014 | | Urologic Oncology, Uroradiology
Introduction There has undoubtedly been a dramatic increase in the number of patients diagnosed with small renal masses in recent years [1]. The rapidly expanding use of CT has led to a large number of incidental diagnoses, but increasing longevity...