key articles

Minimally invasive surgery in oncologic urology

Thursday, 1 May 2008 - In a review Bastide et al. (2008) highlighted the most important advances and results in minimally invasive oncologic surgery reported in the literature between September 2006 and September 2007.

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Authors: Bastide et al.

Demographic and pathologic differences in the incidence of invasive penile cancer in the United States, 1995-2003

Saturday, 23 February 2008 - Penile cancer is an uncommon malignancy, so few descriptive or analytic studies have been reported in the literature. In an analysis, Goodman et al. (2007) described the distribution...

Authors: Goodman et al.

Squamous cell carcinoma antigen correlates with tumor burden but lacks prognostic potential for occult lymph node metastases

Saturday, 5 January 2008 - In penile cancer, radical groin dissection is the reference standard for lymph node staging, but it is associated with high morbidity. Prognostic markers for lymphatic spread would be helpful to select...

Authors: Hungerhuber et al.

Long-term continuous sildenafil treatment ameliorates corporal veno-occlusive dysfunction (CVOD) induced by cavernosal nerve resection in rats

Wednesday, 28 November 2007 - It was recently reported that vardenafil given in a continuous long-term manner in the rat was successful in preventing smooth muscle fibrosis in the penile corpora cavernosa and corporal...

Authors: Kovanecz et al.

A 10-year retrospective audit of penile cancer management in the UK

Thursday, 15 November 2007 - Mistry et al. (2007) audited the penile cancer workload, management and outcome within a regional cancer network serving a population of approximately 1 million in the West Midlands (UK), comparing...