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Urinary retention in women: what a general urologist should know
6 November 2024
| Ahmed Ghonaimy, Ekpeno Inyang, Mehwash Nadeem
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Urinary retention (UR) is classified by the International Continence Society (ICS) into acute (AUR) and chronic (CUR). AUR is defined as the “inability to pass any urine despite having a full bladder which is painfully distended and readily palpable or...
Curing pure CIS with radical surgery: lessons learned
1 September 2014
| Mark Harris
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URO - Urologic Oncology
As carcinoma in situ (CIS) theoretically has no ability to invade or metastasise, performing radical cystectomy for CIS-only disease should be curative. In this single centre review over 37 years, 1964 patients undergoing cystectomy were analysed with 52 undergoing surgery...
Robots
1 November 2014
| Jonathan Charles Goddard
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URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the BAUS Virtual Museum of the History of Urology which is part of the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last four articles I...
How to conduct an endoscopic séance
1 September 2016
| Jonathan Charles Goddard
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URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last article I agreed to tell you how to conduct an...
Uropathology: what’s the diagnosis?
1 September 2017
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URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology
Case 1 A 28-year-old man presented with a left testicular mass. Tumour markers were taken and he went on to have a radical inguinal orchidectomy. The specimen and histology are shown. Which testicular tumour markers were taken? What does their...
Meeting in the middle: a review of the rendezvous technique to treat impassable ureteric strictures and transected ureters
1 August 2015
| Sally J Deverill, Stephen R Keoghane
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URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Introduction Complex ureteric strictures present a significant challenge with some patients undergoing multiple separate urological and radiological procedures to try to cross a stricture without success. Cross-departmental collaboration with uroradiology may allow a decrease in the number of separate interventions....
Management of recurrent cystitis
Acute uncomplicated infective cystitis is most commonly seen in healthy women with a frequency of around 0.5-0.7 episodes per woman per year [1]. Around 10% of women report having had an episode of urinary tract infection (UTI) each year and...Clear cell urothelial carcinoma: a highly aggressive morphological variant in the bladder and upper urinary tract
2 November 2023
| Tom Malik, Benjamin Starmer
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URO - Urologic Oncology
Clear cell urothelial carcinoma (CCUC) is a rare morphological variant of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). It can occur anywhere along the urothelial tract and is characterised histologically by high grade carcinoma with an abundance of clear, glycogen-rich cytoplasm [1]. Alternative...
Novel therapy for SUI
1 March 2014
| Arun K Sharma
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URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
This is a joint study from Iran and University College London. Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a difficult condition to treat for patients and clinicians alike. Various surgical procedures have their benefits and pitfalls. Cell therapy is a new modality;...
Discovering urology during the foundation programme
6 November 2024
| Melanie Sneddon
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URO - Core Urology
My journey to finding urology as a chosen career was not linear. During medical school, I always enjoyed studying urological and renal pathologies. I was exposed to one week of urology placement during my fourth year ‘surgical block’, where I...
Can we make LATE-presenting posterior urethral valves an EARLIER-treated condition?
3 September 2024
| Youssef Ibrahim, Eskinder Solomon, Massimo Garriboli
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URO - Paediatric Urology
What are posterior urethral valves? Posterior urethral valve (PUV) is the most common cause of congenital bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) and renal failure in male children. They were first described by the Italian anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni back in the...
Botox® instillation into the bladder
4 May 2023
| Jay Khastgir
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URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology
Patients with refractory overactive bladder (OAB) may be offered OnabotulinumtoxinA (Botox®) as one of the third-line options. Given the invasive nature of requiring cystoscopy, injections via a needle and local anaesthesia, it would be simpler, more convenient and more accessible...
