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A guided guide to the guide wire
The use of guide wires has become a core skill utilised by urologists, especially within the field of endourology. The authors take us through the development of the guide wire and their current use in urology. The history The first...Use of bone windows in urological CT
1 November 2014
| Jane Belfield
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URO - Uroradiology
Introduction Unenhanced computed tomography of kidneys, ureter and bladder (CTKUB) is the recommended gold standard investigation in patients with acute renal colic. CT urography is now a commonly used technique in the investigation of haematuria, for surgical planning and for...
Kidney stones in pregnancy
2 November 2023
| Heba Hamami, Jacob Patterson
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URO - Endourology & Stones
Case 1 A 28-year-old female, 19 weeks pregnant, presents with severe left loin pain. There is no past medical history of note. Blood tests show a white cell count of 14.1x109/L and creatinine of 56umol/L. An ultrasound scan (USS) reports...
Understanding Stauffer’s syndrome
1 May 2018
| Peter Mark Smith, Matthew Liew, Arie Parnham
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URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Technology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
Who was Stauffer and what is Stauffer’s syndrome? Maurice Stauffer (1915-1994) was a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, United States, and in 1961 first characterised the non-metastatic, paraneoplastic effects of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) on liver size and...
ERA (European Renal Association) Congress 2025
4 June 2025
-7 June 2025
This year’s theme will be Game Changers in Nephrology.
There will be seven main tracks for the 62nd ERA Congress:
Physiology, Cell Biology & Genetic Diseases
Glomerular & Tubulo-interstitial Diseases
Chronic Kidney Disease
Dialysis
Kidney Transplantation
Hypertension & Diabetes
AKI & Critical Care Nephrology
Demanding cases or nightmares in endourology? Jan/Feb 2017
1 January 2017
| Thomas Johnston, John McLoughlin, Stephen R Keoghane
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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...
Delivering a laparoscopic urology workshop in West Africa: our initial experience in Senegal
4 September 2020
| Matthew Trail, Ali Thwaini, Lamine Niang, Zeeshan Aslam
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URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Technology
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...
Consent: your obligations in the modern, post-Montgomery era
There has been so much recent discussion and so much emphasis placed on the fundamental right that we all have to determine what is or is not done to us, the right to self-determination, that it would be either a...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...
Early British pioneers of urological imaging
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 this article I am joined by Gavin Gordon of Newcastle University whose...
Laparoscopic ureteral ligation (clipping)
1 September 2015
| Henrik Steinbrecher
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URO - Paediatric Urology
Ectopic ureters in the presence of an upper moiety duplex kidney, or non functioning upper moieties, are traditionally treated with a heminephrectomy (open or laparoscopic). This carries significant risks, especially loss of the remaining lower moiety. These authors describe a...
Upper tract abnormalities
11 July 2023
| Basil Moss, Hannah Pendegast, Sakshi Rajain, Marcus Cumberbatch
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URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Case 1 Figure 1. A 26-year-old female presents to A&E with loin pain. What do the CT images in Figures 1 (left, centre and right) show? What is the prevalence of the congenital anomaly in the general population, and is...
