Percutaneous and Laparoscopic Cryoablation of Small Renal Masses
Friday, 11 July 2008 - Finley et al. (2008) reviewed their 4-year experience with percutaneous cryoablation and laparoscopy for treating small renal masses.
After institutional review board approval the authors retrospectively analyzed renal cryoablation procedures performed between March 2003 and October 2007. An...
Authors: Finley et al.
Clinical practice guidelines for clinically localized prostate cancer
Friday, 11 July 2008 - The development of high quality, evidenced-based clinical guidelines are increasingly needed for clinicians and patients in critically important treatment related decision making. Dahm et al. (2008) reviewed different approaches used by leading urological organizations to develop guidelines for...
Authors: Dahm et al.
Artificial Urinary Sphincter in Children-Voiding or Emptying?
Thursday, 10 July 2008 - Catti et al. (2008) evaluated functional results with an artificial urinary sphincter in children and adolescents in terms of complications, continence and voiding ability through followup.
A total of 44 patients (39 males and 5 females, age 8.6 to 29.5 years, median 14) underwent...
Authors: Catti et al.
Dorsal buccal mucosal graft urethroplasty for anterior urethral stricture by Asopa technique
Thursday, 10 July 2008 - Buccal mucosal graft (BMG) substitution urethroplasty has become popular in the management of intractable anterior urethral strictures with good results. Excellent long-term results have been reported by both dorsal and ventral onlay techniques. Asopa reported a successful technique for dorsal...
Authors: Pisapati et al.
Evaluation of a homologous multi-epitope vaccine for renal cell carcinoma
Thursday, 10 July 2008 - In a recent phase-III trial, an adjuvant renal cell carcinoma (RCC) vaccine (Reniale) reduces the risk of tumour progression following nephrectomy. This clinical trial focused on efficacy and did not investigate end-points relating to mode-of-action of the vaccine. In a murine model Doehn et...
Authors: Doehn et al.
Risk of death by age, sex, and smoking status in the United States
Thursday, 10 July 2008 - To make sense of the disease risks they face, people need basic facts about the magnitude of a particular risk and how one risk compares with other risks. Unfortunately, this fundamental information is not readily available to patients or physicians. Woloshin et al. (2008) created simple...
Authors: Woloshin et al.
Family history of prostate cancer and prostate cancer
Thursday, 10 July 2008 - Prostate cancer family history has been associated with increased risk of the malignancy. Most prior studies have been retrospective and subject to recall bias, however, and data evaluating interactions with other important risk factors are limited. Ahn et al. (2008) examined the relationship...
Authors: Ahn et al.
Assessment of male fertility in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma
Wednesday, 9 July 2008 - Infertility is one of the most significant side-effects in long-term survivors of successfully treated Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL). Sieniawski et al. (2008) assessed male fertility in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma
The fertility status was assessed in male HL patients enrolled into trials of...
Authors: Sieniawski et al.
Highly specific detection of prostate-specific antigen-positive cells in patients with prostate cancer or benign prostatic hyperplasia
Wednesday, 9 July 2008 - Barbero et al. (2008) assessed the presence of circulating prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-expressing cells in patients with prostate cancer or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and to determine their diagnostic usefulness using a highly sensitive quantitative real-time reverse-transcription...
Authors: Barbero et al.
Statin Use and Risk of Prostate Cancer
Wednesday, 9 July 2008 - Epidemiologic studies of statin use in relation to prostate cancer risk have been inconclusive. Recent evidence, however, suggests that longer-term use may reduce risk of more advanced disease. Agalliu et al. (2008) evaluated risk associated with statin use in a population-based study of 1,001...
Authors: Agalliu et al.
