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Would some boys undergoing orchidopexy benefit from adjuvant hormonal therapy?
4 September 2020
| Neil Featherstone
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URO - Paediatric Urology
Orchidopexy is generally recommended between six months and one year of age given that many studies have shown that there is a progressive histological deterioration and poorer growth of the undescended testis that is not brought down to the scrotum...
Use of MRI in the evaluation of prostate cancer: part 1
Introduction Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in UK men, after lung cancer [1]. The incidence of prostate cancer in the UK has shown a rapid increase...Peyronie’s disease: a review and update
1 September 2017
| Odunayo M Kalejaiye, Philippa Sangster, David J Ralph
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URO - Andrology
Peyronie’s disease (PD) describes an acquired disease of the penis, which is characterised by a number of signs and symptoms. These include penile pain, curvature, palpable plaques, wasting or narrowing of the penile shaft, a hinge deformity and potentially catastrophic...
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...
Bladder cancer: where are we with intravesical therapies?
1 July 2016
| Hannah Wells, Mark Harris
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URO - Urologic Oncology
In the United Kingdom, almost 10,500 new cases of bladder cancer were identified in 2013, with over 5000 deaths in 2012 [1]. Seventy percent of new cases will be non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) at diagnosis and therefore will be...
UTI and VUR in children with mild antenatal hydronephrosis
1 July 2015
| Henrik Steinbrecher
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URO - Paediatric Urology
This paper describes a retrospective analysis of 760 (608 males, 162 females) patients identified with mild antenatal hydronephrosis (defined by an anteroposterior (AP) pelvic diameter of 7-10mm in the third trimester and persistent postnatal dilation) looking at the incidence of...
Benign upper tract abnormalities
6 November 2024
| Srikanth Murali-Krishnan, Farhan Jarral
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Case 1 A 28-year-old lady has been referred to your clinic with right loin pain. She has no significant past medical history but mentions that she and her partner have been trying to get pregnant. She has an US renal...
Thermal ablative techniques for small renal masses
1 July 2017
| Mohammed Al Sheikh, Nicholas Simson, Obi-Njoku Obinna, Ahmed Qteishat
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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...
Percutaneous ultrasound guided endoscopic lavage of perinephric abscess – different, but not necessarily better
1 November 2014
| Hamid Abboudi
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Perinephric abscess is an uncommon but serious form of urosepsis. It develops as a consequence of the extension of an infection outside of the parenchyma of the kidney in acute pyelonephritis, or more rarely from haematogeneous spread of an infection...
Focal therapy trials
6 November 2020
| Deepika Reddy, Hashim U Ahmed (Prof)
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URO - Urologic Oncology
Men with localised prostate cancer have traditionally required whole gland treatment involving radical prostatectomy or radical radiation treatment, independent of disease location and size. Increasing evidence supports the use of active treatment only in those men diagnosed with prostate cancer...
Metastatic spinal cord compression – a review
1 March 2014
| Christian Nayar, Aniket Deshpande, Dan Ford
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URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology
Introduction Metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) is an oncological emergency that, unless diagnosed early and treated appropriately, can lead to significant morbidity and mortality, including paralysis and bladder and bowel dysfunction. MSCC can be defined as spinal cord or cauda...
HIV / AIDS – implications for the urologist
1 May 2015
| Richard Cetti, John Lazarus (Prof)
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URO - Infection
“It’s no fun to have HIV even though it’s viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.” - Philip Berger, Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Toronto, Canada; and leading...
