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Figure 1 app

1 July 2016 | | URO - Technology
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...

Testicular cancer (Mar 2015)

1 March 2015 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Core Urology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Technology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
Case 1 What does the ultrasound show? What further imaging does this patient require? Which tumour markers should be checked? What is the half-life of these markers? What does an elevation in these markers mean? Case 2 What is this...

In conversation with Tim O’Brien

1 December 2020 | URO - Core Urology
We were delighted to catch up with Tim O’Brien, President of BAUS, about his career highlights and plans for the association. Can you tell us a little bit about what led you into the field of urology and the highlights...

Recent developments in bladder cancer – MIBC

5 September 2022 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
This article takes a look back over recent years at new innovations and developments relating to muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) specifically, and will also touch upon what the future may hold. This article is also written as a continuation of...

Use of MRI in the evaluation of prostate cancer: part 1

1 January 2015 | | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
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...

Urinary retention in women: what a general urologist should know

6 November 2024 | | 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...

Management of calyceal diverticular stones using ultramini PCNL

1 January 2017 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
Calyceal diverticulae are congenital smooth-walled, non-secretory urothelium-lined cavities within the renal parenchyma that communicate with calyceal fornix through a diverticular neck. They were first described by Rayer in Traitements des maladies des reins [1]. Calculi occur in approximately 9.5% to...

Urology around the world: Myanmar

13 December 2023 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
In this article the author, a urologist from Myanmar, discusses the presentation, diagnosis and management of a condition common in his country. Urethral orifice stones Urolithiasis is one of the most common urological conditions, usually involving the kidneys, ureters and...

A guide to percutaneous nephrolithotomy

1 July 2019 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is now the gold standard approach to treating large renal stones. Since its development in the 1970s, it has undergone a series of refinements that could only have been possible with the symbiosis of both radiological and...

Early British pioneers of urological imaging

1 September 2019 | | URO - Uroradiology, 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 this article I am joined by Gavin Gordon of Newcastle University whose...

Urolithiasis – metabolic considerations

5 January 2022 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
Case 1 A 32-year-old female patient is diagnosed with a ureteric calculus for the first-time. What type of metabolic evaluation investigations should be performed? When should stone analysis be repeated? What are the most common metabolic abnormalities associated with calcium...

Infections and inflammation: Part 3

1 May 2019 | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection, URO - Andrology, URO - Trauma & Emergency
See also Part 1 and Part 2 Case 1 You review a man in the Emergency Department with scrotal pain and sepsis. His clinical examination findings are shown. What does this image show? Who was this condition named after? What...