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Botox® instillation into the bladder

4 May 2023 | | 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...

Demanding cases or nightmares in endourology? Jan/Feb 2017

1 January 2017 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
In the fifth article in this series the authors describe some of the most complex cases they have encountered. Case 1 A 45-year-old woman was admitted under the care of the medical team with shortness of breath, renal failure and...
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Textbook of the Neurogenic Bladder (Third Edition)

1 May 2016 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology
The third incarnation of this popular tome remains as imposing as ever. However, it has less the feel of an encyclopaedia about it than one might initially have feared. Whilst there is clearly some very great detail here – with...
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Renal stones: an American perspective

1 November 2016 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
This study is from Dallas, USA and appears on the front cover of the BMJ. About 1 in 11 people will have a kidney stone at some point in their lifetime. There is a linear increase in stone prevalence in...
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What is the significance of prostatic calcification?

1 September 2015 | | URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
This prospective study on men undergoing transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) biopsies was performed to evaluate the prevalence and to classify prostatic calcification (PCalc) on TRUS and correlate the findings with histology. Images of the prostate were saved at three defined regions:...

Urologists and oncologists needed - help improve active surveillance conversations

10 August 2026 | Recruitment & Personnel
Targeting urologists and oncologists - for focus groups to be held after 31 July 2026 Do you support patients with low or intermediate-risk prostate cancer? Researchers from the University of Southampton are inviting urologists and oncologists to help refine an...

The Parnell Fund Bursary 2019

1 July 2019 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
At the start of July 2019 applications for the Parnell Fund Bursary were opened to trainees, consultants and healthcare professionals across the United Kingdom with an interest in female, functional and neuro-urology. Rachel Barratt, who was awarded the Parnell Fund...

The Mitrofanoff procedure: a continent revolution

1 January 2018 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatrics
Prior to 1980, surgeons had been struggling to provide a catheterisable, continent channel as an alternative to the native urethra, primarily for paediatric patients with congenital neuropathic bladder. In 1980, Professor Paul Mitrofanoff described the continent supravesical antireflux appendicovesicostomy [1]...

Challenges of upper tract urothelial carcinoma

1 July 2022 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Upper tract uroepithelial carcinoma (UTUC) is a fairly common disease which traditionally had poorer outcomes compared to bladder cancer. This is due to various factors leading to delayed diagnosis and problems in risk stratification. Continuing efforts have focused on early...

Peno-scrotal extramammary Paget’s disease

1 July 2015 | | URO - Infection
Epidemiology Extramammary Paget’s disease (EMP) is a rare intraepithelial neoplasm, which is rarely invasive and has an incidence of six per million person-years as calculated by a European SEER analysis [1]. It usually affects apocrine gland-bearing areas, especially the vulvar,...

Thermal ablative techniques for small renal masses

1 July 2017 | | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
The incidence of renal cell carcinoma has increased over the past decade which can be partly attributed to the increased use of imaging modalities [1,2]. Nephron sparing procedures for the management of small renal tumours have gained popularity which include...

RSM: Trauma and On-call Urology

16 October 2026
Why attend? Hear from leading experts in urology, trauma surgery and urgent care, including Professor David Nott OBE on trauma in hostile environments, Mr Paul Anderson on urethral trauma and reconstruction, and Charlotte Aston, Director of the GIRFT Urgent and...