World Journal of Urology

Inhalt (654 Artikel)

WWI: a novel lens on kidney stone risk prediction

Letter to the Editor

Fu-Xiang Lin, Zhan-Ping Xu

Letter to the editor for the article “Does the urinary microbiome profile change after treatment of bladder cancer?”

Letter to the Editor

Yuxuan Song, Tao Xu

Understanding the study of 21-year follow-up results of the Rotterdam section of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer

Letter to the Editor

Dong Nguyen, Linh Ho, Sang Nguyen

Letter to the editor for the article “Association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease severity among prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis”

Letter to the Editor

Hanlei Yang, Miaomiao Li, Yanping Zhao, Hongwei Yang

RE: Baunacke M, et al. Insufficient utilization of care in male incontinence surgery: health care reality in Germany from 2006 to 2020 and a systematic review of the international literature. World J Urol. 2023 Jul;41(7):1813–1819

Letter to the Editor

Mathilde Brument, Justine Kulawik, Jean-Nicolas Cornu

Differential oral and gut microbial structure related to systemic metabolism in kidney stone patients

Original Article

Zi-Jie Xu, Lei Chen, Qi-Lin Tang, Deng Li, Chu-Jiang He, Chao-Liang Xu, Fei-Teng Chen, Yi Shao

Comparison of novel flexible and traditional ureteral access sheath in retrograde intrarenal surgery

Open Access
Original Article

Yue Yu, Yujun Chen, Xiaochen Zhou, Xunwen Li, Wei Liu, Xiaofeng Cheng, Luyao Chen, Heng Yang, Gongxian Wang, Haibo Xi

Prevalence and predictors of stone passage after double J stenting for symptomatic ureteral stones: a cross-sectional, real-life study

Original Article

Andrea Nogara, Gianpaolo Lucignani, Matteo Turetti, Carlo Silvani, Andrea Marmiroli, Marco Nizzardo, Franco Gadda, Stefano Paolo Zanetti, Fabrizio Longo, Elisa De Lorenzis, Giancarlo Albo, Andrea Salonia, Emanuele Montanari, Luca Boeri

Is multiparametric MRI always needed in biopsy-naïve patients with abnormal digital rectal examination? A single-institutional experience combining clinical and micro-ultrasonography-based factors to optimize prostate cancer detection

Topic Paper

Pier Paolo Avolio, Massimo Lazzeri, Davide Maffei, Vittorio Fasulo, Nicola Frego, Cesare Saitta, Fabio de Carne, Marco Paciotti, Alberto Saita, Rodolfo Hurle, Giorgio Guazzoni, Paolo Casale, Nicolò Maria Buffi, Giovanni Lughezzani

The association between computed tomography attenuation value of renal angiomyolipoma associated with tuberous sclerosis complex and response to everolimus

Original Article

Zhangcheng Liao, Jiao Li, Yang Zhao, Zhan Wang, Xu Wang, Dongxu Qiu, Yushi Zhang

Response to letter to the editor on the systematic review “Narrow band imaging versus white light cystoscopy alone for transurethral resection of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer”

Letter to the Editor

Philipp Dahm, Philipp Maisch, Giulia I. Lane

The landscape of penile cancer research in Germany and Austria: a survey among professors in academic centers holding chair positions and results of a literature search

Original Article

Semih Sarcan, Ingmar Wolff, Lukas Lusuardi, Anton Kravchuk, Jens Wiegland, Abdulbaki Yakac, Christian Thomas, Maximilian Burger, Christian Gilfrich, Steffen Lebentrau, Sascha Ahyai, Axel Merseburger, Matthias May

Bicentric retrospective study comparing the postoperative outcomes of patients treated surgically for bladder stones with or without concomitant surgery for BPH

Original Article

Caroline Chapelle, Etienne Lavallée, Maxime Vallée, Aurélien Descazeaud

Bladder neck contracture following transurethral surgery of prostate: a retrospective single-center study

Original Article

Meng-Hua Wu, Jia-Xin Liu, Yu-Feng Zhang, Zi-Bing Cao, Hong-Chen Song, Bo-Yu Yang, Ming-Jun Shi, Yuan Du, Jian Song, Xuan-Hao Li

Does a collecting system injury with grade iv renal blunt trauma always need urinary intervention?

Original Article

Po-Ting Lin, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Yu-San Tee, Chi-Tung Cheng, Chien-Hung Liao, Chi-Hsun Hsieh, Chih-Yuan Fu

The influence of preoperative urodynamic parameters on clinical results in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia after transurethral resection of the prostate

Letter to the Editor

Valerio Santarelli, Riccardo Lombardo, Cosimo De Nunzio

Identification of biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets of kidney stone disease using bioinformatics

Original Article

Yuchen Gao, Ding Liu, Hongmin Zhou, Yunze Dong, Xiao Xu, Xiangcheng Zhan, Nueraihemaiti Yimingniyizi, Xudong Yao, Tiancheng Xie, Yunfei Xu

Comparing the safety and efficacy of single-port versus multi-port robotic-assisted techniques in urological surgeries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Original Article

Si Ge, Zhiqiang Zeng, Yunxiang Li, Lijian Gan, Chunyang Meng, Kangsen Li, Zuoping Wang, Lei Zheng

The effect of hospital caseload on perioperative mortality, morbidity and costs in bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystectomy: results of the German nationwide inpatient data

Open Access
Original Article

Nikolaos Pyrgidis, Yannic Volz, Benedikt Ebner, Philipp M. Kazmierczak, Benazir Enzinger, Julian Hermans, Alexander Buchner, Christian Stief, Gerald Bastian Schulz

How does artificial intelligence master urological board examinations? A comparative analysis of different Large Language Models’ accuracy and reliability in the 2022 In-Service Assessment of the European Board of Urology

Original Article

Lisa Kollitsch, Klaus Eredics, Martin Marszalek, Michael Rauchenwald, Sabine D. Brookman-May, Maximilian Burger, Katharina Körner-Riffard, Matthias May

Endoscopic combined intrarenal surgery composed of micro-perc and retrograde intrarenal surgery in the treatment of complex kidney stones in children

Original Article

Zi-Hao Xu, Geng-Yu Du, Yi-Jun Zhao, Heng-You Wang, Guang-Jie Chen, Chang Tao, Xiang Yan

Prognostic factors of intravesical recurrence after radical nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Original Article

Chen-Ya Chen, Chao-Hsiang Chang, Chi-Rei Yang, Kun-Lin Hsieh, Wen-Hsin Tsing, I-Hsuan Alan Chen, Jen-Tai Lin, Chao-Yuan Huang, Jian-Hua Hong, Jen-Shu Tseng, Wun-Rong Lin, Yao-Chou Tsai, Shu-Yu Wu, Cheng-Huang Shen, Ian-Seng Cheong, Chuan-Shu Chen, Cheng-Kuang Yang, Yuan-Hong Jiang, Chung-You Tsai, Thomas Y. Hsueh, Yung-Tai Chen, Chia-Chang Wu, Shih-Hsiu Lo, Bing-Juin Chiang, Wei Yu Lin, Po-Hung Lin, Ta-Yao Tai, Wei-Ming Li, Hsiang-Ying Lee

Safety and efficacy of radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy for recurrent metastatic renal pelvic and ureteral carcinoma

Original Article

Ming-Zhu Liu, Xiao-Ying Li, Feng Lyu, Xian-Shu Gao, Jia-Yan Chen, Yan Gao, Mu Xie, Xue-Ying Ren, Ming-Wei Ma

Trends in kidney transplantation and living donor nephrectomy in Germany: a total population analysis from 2006 to 2021

Open Access
Topic Paper

Aristeidis Zacharis, Philipp Reimold, Cem Aksoy, Jonas Jung, Thomas Martin, Nicole Eisenmenger, Smita George Thoduka, Christer Groeben, Johannes Huber, Luka Flegar

Renal regenerative capacity related to stem cell reserve in nephrectomized rats

Original Article

Songul Arabul, Mustafa Melikoglu, Esma Kirimlioglu, Bezmi Cem Boneval, Gungor Karaguzel

Factors predicting indistinct plane of surgical capsule in patients underwent HoLEP procedures

Original Article

Ke Liu, Xun Zhao, Ruotao Xiao, Lei Zhao, Chunlei Xiao, Shudong Zhang, Lulin Ma

Randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded study of prophylactic cranberries use in women with recurrent uncomplicated cystitis

Original Article

Eleftherios Tsiakoulias, Stavros Gravas, Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Katerina G. Oikonomou, Maria Kyritsi, Katerina Dadouli, Alexia Matziri, Konstantina Kola, Evangelia Vacthsioli, Marianna Tsiakoulia, Michaela Gianniou, Vassilios Tzortzis

Glycolate oxidase-1 gene variants influence the risk of hyperoxaluria and renal stone development

Original Article

Yash P. Patel, Sandip B. Patel, Priyal Patel, Aditya Parikh, Shailesh Soni, Ratika Srivastava, Chintal Raval, Arvind P. Ganpule, Mahesh R. Desai, Samir G. Patel, Sachchida Nand Pandey

Comparisons of mpMRI, 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT and mpMRI combined with 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT in diagnosing prostate cancer based on tumor detection, localization and staging

Original Article

Zhipeng Mai, Ming Zhu, Tianrui Feng, Zhien Zhou, Yi Zhou, Dong Wang, Runqiang Yuan, Yu Xiao, Jiarou Wang, Hao Sun, Weigang Yan

Relocation of lower pole renal stones helps improve the stone-free rate during flexible ureteroscopy with a low complication rate

Open Access
Original Article

Ru Huang, Jian-chun Chen, Yong-qiang Zhou, Jin-jin Wang, Chu-chu Hui, Min-jun Jiang, Chen Xu

The use of Versius CMR for pelvic surgery: a multicentric analysis of surgical setup and early outcomes

Open Access
Topic Paper

Maria Chiara Sighinolfi, Maurizio De Maria, Iacopo Meneghetti, Mauro Felline, Andrea Pisani Ceretti, Luca Mosillo, Chiara Catalano, Alessandro Morandi, Tommaso Calcagnile, Enrico Panio, Mattia Sangalli, Filippo Turri, Stefano Terzoni, Simone Assumma, Luca Sarchi, Margarita Afonina, Annamaria Marconi, Paolo Pietro Bianchi, Salvatore Micali, Bernardo Rocco, Giorgia Gaia

Ultrasound imaging of male urethral stricture disease: a narrative review of the available evidence, focusing on selected prospective studies

Open Access
Invited Review

Mikołaj Frankiewicz, Malte W. Vetterlein, Karolina Markiet, Jan Adamowicz, Felix Campos-Juanatey, Andrea Cocci, Clemens M. Rosenbaum, Wesley Verla, Marjan Waterloos, Guglielmo Mantica, Marcin Matuszewski

Experts’ recommendations in laser use for the treatment of urolithiasis: a comprehensive guide by the European Section of Uro-Technology (ESUT) and Training-Research in Urological Surgery and Technology (T.R.U.S.T.)-Group

Topic Paper

Gernot Ortner, Bhaskar Kumar Somani, Selcuk Güven, Gerhard Kitzbichler, Olivier Traxer, Guido Giusti, Silvia Proietti, Evangelos Liatsikos, Panagiotis Kallidonis, Amy Krambeck, Ioannis Kartalas Goumas, Mordechai Duvdevani, Guido M. Kamphuis, Stefania Ferretti, Laurian Dragos, Khurshid Ghani, Arkadiusz Miernik, Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Helene Jung, Thomas Tailly, Amelia Pietropaolo, Saeed Bin Hamri, Athanasios Papatsoris, Kemal Sarica, Cesare Marco Scoffone, Cecilia Maria Cracco, Etienne Xavier Keller, Otas Durutovic, Sergio Pereira, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Udo Nagele, Ali Serdar Gözen, Theodoros Tokas

Pathways to paediatric urology subspecialisation: a study of casemix, incumbent attitudes and opinions

Open Access
Original Article

F. O’Kelly, L. A. t’Hoen, B. Banuelos Marco, R. J. M. Lammers, S. Sforza, M. Hiess, E. Bindi, N. Baydilli, M. I. Donmez, I. Paraboschi, A. Atwa, A. F. Spinoit, B. Haid, S. Silay

Minimally invasive techniques in quest of Holy Grail of surgical management of enlarged prostates: a narrative review

Invited Review

Joao G. Porto, Renil Titus, Feres Camargo, Ansh Bhatia, Nehizena Ahie, Ruben Blachman-Braun, Ankur Malpani, Diana M. Lopategui, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Robert Marcovich, Hemendra N. Shah

Microstructural white matter abnormalities in overactive bladder syndrome evaluation with diffusion kurtosis imaging tract-based spatial statistics analysis

Original Article

Long Zuo, Tian Tian, Biao Wang, Hua Gu, Shuangkun Wang

Defining the role of multiparametric MRI in predicting prostate cancer extracapsular extension

Open Access
Topic Paper

Francesco Sanguedolce, Alessandro Tedde, Luisa Granados, Jonathan Hernández, Jorge Robalino, Edgar Suquilanda, Matteo Tedde, Joan Palou, Alberto Breda

Size of lymph-node metastases in prostate cancer patients undergoing radical prostatectomy: implication for imaging and oncologic follow-up of 2705 lymph-node positive patients

Open Access
Original Article

Fabian Falkenbach, Mykyta Kachanov, Sami-Ramzi Leyh-Bannurah, Tobias Maurer, Sophie Knipper, Daniel Köhler, Markus Graefen, Guido Sauter, Lars Budäus

Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy: a multicenter experience with the Senhance Surgical System

Original Article

Tomislav Kulis, Narimantas E. Samalavicius, Tvrtko Hudolin, Raimundas Venckus, Luka Penezic, Vaida Nausediene, Frank Willeke, Zeljko Kastelan

Predictors of elaborated perineal or a combined abdominoperineal approach during repair for pelvic fracture urethral injury

Original Article

Christian Yepes, Maciej Oszczudlowski, Pankaj M. Joshi, Apurva Anand, Shreyas Bhadranavar, Sanjay B. Kulkarni

Acute and long-term toxicity in primary hypofractionated external photon radiation therapy in patients with localized prostate cancer

Open Access
Topic Paper

Wolfgang Lilleby, Amar Kishan, Hans Geinitz

Comparison of the bone mineral density status of patients with kidney stones stratified by stone composition

Original Article

Xiaoming Cong, Lili Huang, Xingbo Wang, Liulin Li, Xin Zhang, Xuehua Chen, Yan Xu

Evolution of anxiety management in prostate biopsy under local anesthesia: a narrative review

Open Access
Topic Paper

Sylvain Vanoli, Elisabeth Grobet-Jeandin, Olivier Windisch, Massimo Valerio, Daniel Benamran

Development and validation of a novel home-made bench-top training model for retrograde intrarenal surgery

Original Article

Jingfei Teng, Chong Ma, Feng Gao, Xiao Luo, Yawei Guan, Zhihui Li, Li Yao, Xing Ai

Single incision robotic cystectomy and urinary diversion

Topic Paper

Mark D. Tyson

Advancements in stone classification: unveiling the beauty of urolithiasis

Topic Paper

Vincent De Coninck, Andreas Skolarikos, Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Manu Joris, Olivier Traxer, Etienne Xavier Keller

Radiotherapy in metastatic bladder cancer

Open Access
Topic Paper

Sophie Ashley, Ananya Choudhury, Peter Hoskin, YeePei Song, Priyamvada Maitre

Rezŭm water vaporization therapy versus transurethral resection of the prostate in the management of refractory urine retention: matched pair comparative multicenter experience

Original Article

Waseem Tayeb, Raed A. Azhar, Mohnna Subahi, Sameer Munshi, Abdulrahman Qarni, Abdulaziz Bakhsh, Majid Sejiny, Turkey Almohaisen, Adel Alammari, Mohamed A. Elkoushy

Thulium fiber laser vs. holmium laser enucleation of the prostate: results of a prospective randomized non-inferiority trial

Open Access
Original Article

Marina Kosiba, Maximilian Filzmayer, Maria N. Welte, Leonie Hügenell, Anna C. Keller, Miriam I. Traumann, Matthias J. Müller, Luis A. Kluth, Philipp C. Mandel, Felix K.-H. Chun, Andreas Becker

Predicting new-baseline glomerular filtration rate (NBGFR) after donor nephrectomy: validation of a split renal function (SRF)-based formula

Original Article

Hoi Pong Nicholas Wong, Wei Zheng So, Vineet Gauhar, Benjamin Yen Seow Goh, Ho Yee Tiong

Surgical metastasectomy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma in the era of targeted and immune therapy: a narrative review

Original Article

Georges Abi Tayeh, Marwan Alkassis, Alexandre De La Taille, Dimitri Vordos, Cécile Maud Champy, Tiphaine Pelegrin, Alexandre Ingels

A review of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for nonmetastatic renal cell carcinoma

Topic Paper

Osbert Zalay, Prateek Mehra, Ian Pereira, Julia Malone, Shawn Malone

Analysis of the immunological markers BTLA, TIM-3, and PD-L1 at the invasion front and tumor center in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Original Article

Viktoria Stühler, Bilal Alemi, Steffen Rausch, Arnulf Stenzl, Matthias Schwab, Elke Schaeffeler, Jens Bedke

The effect of limited english proficiency on prostate-specific antigen screening in American men

Original Article

Benjamin V. Stone, Muhieddine Labban, Edoardo Beatrici, Dejan K. Filipas, Nicola Frego, Zhiyu (Jason) Qian, Sandeep S. Voleti, Nora Y. Osman, Mark M. Pomerantz, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Adam S. Feldman, Adam S. Kibel, Alexander P. Cole, Quoc-Dien Trinh

Follow-up of vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy in a real-world setting

Open Access
Topic Paper

Angelika Borkowetz, Jeremy Kwe, Katharina Boehm, Martin Baunacke, Roman Herout, Marius Lucke, Adriana Burcea, Christian Thomas

Focal radiotherapy boost to MR-visible tumor for prostate cancer: a systematic review

Open Access
Invited Review

Anna M. Dornisch, Allison Y. Zhong, Darren M. C. Poon, Alison C. Tree, Tyler M. Seibert

How much energy do we need to ablate 1 cubic millimeter of stone during Thulium Fiber Laser lithotripsy? An in vitro study

Original Article

Frédéric Panthier, Marie Chicaud, Steeve Doizi, Stessy Kutchukian, Pierre Lapouge, Catalina Solano, Luigi Candela, Michel Daudon, Laurent Berthe, Mariela Corrales, Olivier Traxer

Patients and general practitioner knowledge and perception of testicular self-examination for cancer

Original Article

Quentin Boisselier, Ugo Pinar, Xavier Durand, Thomas Tabourin, Ambroise Salin, Michael Baboudjian, Thibaut Murez, Morgan Roupret, Benjamin Pradère

Current practice and unmet training needs in robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy: investigation from the Junior ERUS/YAU working group

Original Article

Marcio Covas Moschovas, Carlo Andrea Bravi, Paolo Dell’Oglio, Filippo Turri, Ruben de Groote, Nikolaos Liakos, Mike Wenzel, Christoph Würnschimmel, Fabrizio Di Maida, Federico Piramide, Iulia Andras, Alberto Breda, Alexandre Mottrie, Vipul Patel, Alessandro Larcher

Is water vapor thermal therapy safe and feasible in elderly and frail men? The Italian experience

Original Article

Antonio Minore, Simone Morselli, Francesco Franzoso, Daniele Maruzzi, Francesco Varvello, Stefano Toso, Giovanni Ferrari, Giampaolo Siena, Enrico Conti, Rocco Papalia, Francesco Uricchio, Raffaele Balsamo, Roberto Mario Scarpa, Luca Cindolo

Comment on ‘A new position utilizing the effect of gravity in proximal ureteral stones, ureteroscopic lithotripsy in the reverse Trendelenburg position: a prospective, randomized, comparative study’

Letter to the Editor

Harry Anastos, Alan J. Yaghoubian, Mantu Gupta

Evaluation of a novel circulation system for ureteroscopic laser lithotripsy in vitro

Original Article

Zonghai He, Yang Xun, Shaogang Wang

Predictive markers for infections after extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy in patients with kidney stone based on a large prospective cohort

Original Article

Bitian Liu, Shen Pan, Lu Wang, Song Bai, Dongmei Liu

Tumor margin irregularity degree is an important preoperative predictor of adverse pathology for clinical T1/2 renal cell carcinoma and the construction of predictive model

Original Article

Keruo Wang, Guixin Wang, Yaru Liu, Liang Dong, Yuanjie Niu, Gang Li

Development and outcomes of surgical and urological kidney transplantation programs in Germany: a total population analysis from 2006 to 2021

Open Access
Topic Paper

Philipp Reimold, Cem Aksoy, Jonas Beckmann, Aristeidis Zacharis, Christer Groeben, Philipp Karschuck, Nicole Eisenmenger, Josef Geks, Johannes Huber, Luka Flegar

A new perspective on the treatment of upper ureteric stones

Letter to the Editor

Fu Feng, Zhanping Xu

Triangular prismatic JJ stent does not cause more discomfort than tubular ones: a randomised controlled trial comparison

Original Article

Lin Zhang, Yanyuan Wu, Yuangui Chen, Subo Qian, Liujian Duan, Yunteng Huang, Jie Ding, Jun Qi, Jianwei Cao

Diagnostic and treatment patterns in urinary and genital tract infections: insights from a referral clinic in Beirut, Lebanon

Original Article

Mohamad Moussa, Hussein Issa, Jihad al Hassan, Kariman Ghazal

Neurological sphincter deficiency: is there a place for artificial urinary sphincter?

Open Access
Topic Paper

Desiree Vrijens, Harry Kendall, François Hervé

Tadalafil versus tamsulosin as combination therapy with 5-alpha reductase inhibitors in benign prostatic hyperplasia, urinary and sexual outcomes

Original Article

Ahmed Tawfik, Mohammed Abo-Elenen, Mohammed Gaber, Ahmed El-Abd, Ahmed Zoeir, Sayed Saad, Intessar Sultan, Ayman Ghoneim

The role of oral antioxidants in the improvement of sperm parameters in infertile men

Invited Review

Georgios Kallinikas, James N. Tsoporis, Georgios Haronis, Anastasios Zarkadas, Dimitrios Bozios, Vassilios Konstantinopoulos, Diomidis Kozyrakis, Despoina Mitiliniou, Evangelos Rodinos, Athanasios Filios, Panagiotis Filios, Gerasimos Vlassopoulos

Feasibility of same-day discharge of robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection

Original Article

Spencer S. Liem, Dhaval Jivanji, Shimron Brown, Timothy Demus, Shuwei Peter Chang, Olga Lopez, Akshay Bhandari, Jorge F. Pereira

Do we need MRI in all biopsy naïve patients? A multicenter cohort analysis

Open Access
Original Article

Philipp Krausewitz, Angelika Borkowetz, Gernot Ortner, Kira Kornienko, Mike Wenzel, Niklas Westhoff

Factors associated with unplanned clinical encounters for ureteral stent-related symptoms

Original Article

Connor Policastro, Mauro Dispagna, Garrett Smith, Timothy Byler, Scott Wiener

Semirigid ureteroscopy and tamsulosin therapy as dilatation methods before flexible ureteroscopy: evaluation and benefits

Open Access
Original Article

Ahmed Issam Ali, Abdelsalam Abdelfadel, Mahmoud F. Rohiem, Ali Hassan

Focused UTUC pathways with a risk-stratified approach to diagnostic ureteroscopy: is it the need of the hour? A retrospective cohort analysis

Topic Paper

Kalpesh Parmar, Mark Hanson, Ahmed S. Mahrous, Francis X. Keeley Jr., Anthony G. Timoney, Salah Albuheissi, Bhavan Prasad Rai, Joe Philip

Ureteral stent after PCNL: is leaving the threads through the percutaneous tract safe and better tolerated?

Original Article

Enrique Pulido-Contreras, Miguel Angel Primo-Rivera, Miguel Angel Garcia-Padilla, Carlos Rios-Melgarejo

The significance of clinically insignificant residual fragments after percutaneous nephrolithotomy: an analysis into the relevance of complete stone clearance

Open Access
Original Article

Riemer A. Kingma, Carleen Doppen, Mieke T. J. Bus, Emanuela Altobelli, Igle Jan de Jong, Stijn Roemeling

Experts’ recommendations in laser use for the treatment of bladder cancer: a comprehensive guide by the European Section of Uro-Technology (ESUT) and Training and Research in Urological Surgery and Technology (TRUST)-Group

Topic Paper

Gernot Ortner, Selcuk Güven, Bhaskar Kumar Somani, Andre Nicklas, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Ioannis Kartalas Goumas, Thorsten Bach, Fernando Gómez Sancha, Felipe C. A. Figueredo, Mario W. Kramer, Giorgio Bozzini, Øyvind Ulvik, Panagiotis Kallidonis, Jean Baptiste Roche, Arkadiusz Miernik, Dmitry Enikeev, Chandra Mohan Vaddi, Naeem Bhojani, Petros Sountoulides, Lukas Lusuardi, Joyce Baard, Vineet Gauhar, Ali Ahmed, Christopher Netsch, Ali Serdar Gözen, Udo Nagele, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Theodoros Tokas

Autonomic dysreflexia in urological practice: pathophysiology, prevention and treatment considerations

Topic Paper

Martín Calderón-Juárez, Soshi Samejima, Lucas Rempel, Rahul Sachdeva, Andrei Krassioukov

Salvage vesiculectomy for local prostate cancer recurrence: surgical technique and early post-operative outcomes

Original Article

Alexander Giesen, Thomas Van den Broeck, Dries Develtere, Yannic Raskin, Kevin Wymer, Christopher Eden, Marc Claessens, Robert Hente, Kato Rans, Charlien Berghen, Gert De Meerleer, Stephen Langley, R. Jeffrey Karnes, Axel Heidenreich, David Pfister, Steven Joniau

Clinical and economic impact of the introduction of pre-biopsy MRI-based assessment on a large prostate cancer centre diagnostic population and activity: 10 years on

Topic Paper

Luca Orecchia, Charles Katz-Summercorn, Rebekah Grainger, Peter Fletcher, Simona Ippoliti, Tristan Barrett, Christof Kastner

Transperitoneal versus retroperitoneal robot-assisted partial nephrectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Original Article

Nikita Shrivastava, Priyank Bhargava, Gopal Sharma, Gautam Ram Choudhary

PI-RADS upgrading as the strongest predictor for the presence of clinically significant prostate cancer in patients with initial PI-RADS-3 lesions

Open Access
Topic Paper

Jeremy Kwe, Martin Baunacke, Katharina Boehm, Ivan Platzek, Christian Thomas, Angelika Borkowetz

Old for young kidney transplantation: a responsible option for our patients to reduce waiting time?

Open Access
Topic Paper

Philip Zeuschner, Janine Mihm, Urban Sester, Michael Stöckle, Frank Friedersdorff, Klemens Budde, Abdulbaki Yakac, Christian Thomas, Johannes Huber, Juliane Putz, Luka Flegar

Correction: The use of Versius CMR for pelvic surgery: a multicentric analysis of surgical setup and early outcomes

Open Access
Correction

The association between patient and disease characteristics, and the risk of disease progression in patients with prostate cancer on active surveillance

Original Article

Matthijs Duijn, Theo M. de Reijke, Kurdo Barwari, Marias J. Hagens, Sybren P. Rynja, Jos Immerzeel, Jelle O. Barentsz, Auke Jager

Modified Y-V plasty based on MRU evaluation for iatrogenic bladder outlet obliteration: a multicentre experience in China

Original Article

Kun Zheng, Yinglong Sa, Chuan Hao, Chengyong Li, Wei Li, Fachen Miao, Chaohui Gu, Xiaoju Ding, Jiefu Huang, Qingbing Zhang, Jianbing Huang, Lujie Song, Jianwen Huang, Jiemin Si, Kaile Zhang, Qiang Fu, Xiaoyong Hu

Investigating the effects of tilting the postural drainage lithotripsy system on cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure, heart rate, and blood pressure

Open Access
Original Article

Liangliang Dai, Shihui Li, Tao Yang, Hanping Wei, Rijin Song, Xianghu Meng, Xiaoliang Yuan, Zhimin Jiao, Tingchun Wu, Honglei Shi

Comparison of AirSeal versus conventional insufflation system for retroperitoneal robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy: a randomized controlled trial

Open Access
Original Article

Mengchao Wei, Wenjie Yang, Jingmin Zhou, Zixing Ye, Zhigang Ji, Jie Dong, Weifeng Xu

Re: associations between visceral adipose index and stress urinary incontinence among US adult women—a cross‑sectional study

Letter to the Editor

Po-Ren Hsiao, James Cheng-Chung Wei

Malignant ureteral obstruction: comparison of metallic, 8 French and 6 French ureteric stents after failure of initial ureteric stent

Original Article

Katherine Ong, James Chen, Jennifer Kong, Melvyn Kuan

Highly accurate and effective deep neural networks in pathological diagnosis of prostate cancer

Topic Paper

Chengwei Zhang, Xiubin Gao, Bo Fan, Suhan Guo, Xiaoyu Lyu, Jiong Shi, Yao Fu, Qing Zhang, Peng Liu, Hongqian Guo

Identification of genomic drivers for the therapeutic response of Cabozantinib in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Open Access
Original Article

Angelika Borkowetz, Ulrich Sommer, Gustavo Baretton, Carsten Gruellich, Björn Thorben Bürk, Holger H. H. Erb, Christian Thomas

Systemic interrogation of immune-oncology-related proteins in patients with locally advanced prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation and intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Open Access
Topic Paper

Ingrid Jenny Guldvik, Håkon Ramberg, Gitte Kristensen, Andreas Røder, Ian G. Mills, Wolfgang Lilleby, Kristin Austlid Taskén

Ho:YAG laser and dusting—high power vs low power: there is no difference

Topic Paper

Sara L. Best

One-year clinical outcomes of MR-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy with rectal spacer for patients with localized prostate cancer

Open Access
Topic Paper

Darren M. C. Poon, Jing Yuan, Oi Lei Wong, Bin Yang, Mei Yan Tse, Ka Ki Lau, Sin Ting Chiu, Peter Ka-Fung Chiu, Chi Fai Ng, Ka Lun Chui, Yiu Ming Kwong, Wai Kit Ma, Kin Yin Cheung, George Chiu, Siu Ki Yu

Single-port robot-assisted simple prostatectomy: techniques and outcomes

Topic Paper

Francesco Ditonno, Antonio Franco, Celeste Manfredi, Alessandro Veccia, Cosimo De Nunzio, Marco De Sio, Srinivas Vourganti, Alexander K. Chow, Edward E. Cherullo, Alessandro Antonelli, Riccardo Autorino

From laser-on time to lithotripsy duration: how neural networks can refine “KIDNEY STONE CALCULATOR” predictions for ureteroscopic lithotripsy duration: preliminary results

Letter to the Editor

Frédéric Panthier, Laurent Berthe, Chady Ghnatios, Daron Smith, Olivier Traxer

Planning my ureteroscopic laser lithotripsy: how much energy and time should I reasonably expect? Integrating the concept of laser energy consumption (J/mm3)

Letter to the Editor

Etienne Xavier Keller, Jia-Lun Kwok, Frédéric Panthier, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Olivier Traxer

Letter to the editor for the article “Prognostic factors of intravesical recurrence after radical nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma”

Letter to the Editor

Fumihiko Urabe

Letter to the editor: “ChatGPT and most frequent urological diseases: analysing the quality of information and potential risks for patients”

Letter to the Editor

Junjun Wang, Xing Yun

Letter to the editor for the article “Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy: a multicenter experience with the Senhance Surgical System”

Letter to the Editor

Fumihiko Urabe

Letter to the editor, “How does artificial intelligence master urological board examinations?”

Letter to the Editor

Junjun Wang, Xing Yun

Exploring the complex interplay: BPH, nocturia, and aging male health

Letter to the Editor

Yu-Hsiang Lin, Chun-Te Wu, Horng-Heng Juang

Navigating the indistinct plane: emphasizing the role of anterior fibromuscular stroma in HoLEP

Letter to the Editor

Yu-Hsiang Lin, Han-Yu Tsai, Yu-Ting Chen

"No stone should be left unturned": The next stone composition for recurrent stone formers is unpredictable, so all stones should be sent for analysis

Letter to the Editor

Ilan Klein, Ilona Pilosov Solomon, Felix Yasinov, Rani Zreik, Yuval Friefeld, Yoram Dekel

Revisiting prostatic calculi formation: insights from neurogenic to non-neurogenic bladders

Letter to the Editor

Han-Yu Tsai, Yu-Ting Chen, Yu-Hsiang Lin

Alpha-blockers: the magic pill for endourology—The great delusion

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Peter Kronenberg

Neoadjuvant combination therapy (immunotherapy and chemotherapy) and treatment-related biomarkers in upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Letter to the Editor

Yuxuan Song, Tao Xu

Improvements in urinary symptoms, health-related quality of life, and psychosocial distress in the early recovery period after radical cystectomy and urinary diversion in 842 German bladder cancer patients: data from uro-oncological rehabilitation

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Henning Bahlburg, Karl Heinrich Tully, Peter Bach, Marius Cristian Butea-Bocu, Moritz Reike, Florian Roghmann, Joachim Noldus, Guido Müller

Factors related to acupuncture response in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

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Xinlu Wang, Lili Zhu, Min Yang, Yu Chen, Zhishun Liu

Comparison of mirabegron and vibegron for clinical efficacy and safety in female patients with overactive bladder: a multicenter prospective randomized crossover trial

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Naoki Wada, Mitsuhiro Mizunaga, Noriyuki Abe, Kotona Miyauchi, Shin Kobayashi, Miyu Ohtani, Ryoken Tsunekawa, Masaya Nagabuchi, Shun Morishita, Teppei Ohyama, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Hiromichi Iuchi, Tsuyoshi Noda, Yuji Saga, Tadasu Motoya, Norihiro Kawakami, Masayuki Nishihara, Atsushi Numata, Hidehiro Kakizaki

Risk factors of high fluid absorption in patients treated with mini-PCNL: a single-center prospective study

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Luyang Zhang, Enguang Yang, Suoshi Jing, Hui Ding, Yunxin Zhang, Junqiang Tian, Junsheng Bao, Jun Mi, Qiqi He, Zhilong Dong, Li Yang, Juan Wang, Qihui Zheng, Zhiping Wang

A phase 2 pilot study of water irrigation after transurethral resection of bladder tumor (WATIP) demonstrating safety, feasibility and activity

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Mo Li, Ruchira Nandurkar, Jason Toniolo, Ian D. Davis, Shomik Sengupta

Ureteroplasty with buccal mucosa graft without omental wrap: an effective method to treat ureteral strictures

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Simon U. Engelmann, Yushan Yang, Christoph Pickl, Maximilian Haas, Christopher Goßler, Sebastian Kälble, Valerie Hartmann, Johannes Breyer, Maximilian Burger, Roman Mayr

Robot-assisted laparoscopic nephrectomy: early outcome measures with the implementation of multimodal analgesia and intrathecal morphine via the acute pain service

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Minhthy N. Meineke, Matthew V. Losli, Jacklynn F. Sztain, Matthew W. Swisher, Wendy B. Abramson, Erin I. Martin, Timothy J. Furnish, Amirali Salmasi, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Rodney A. Gabriel, Engy T. Said

Development of the self-management scale for urolithiasis patients with indwelling double-J tube

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Ziqi Hu, Aoli Huang, Ruiyao He, Fangxin Wei, Yu Wang

Predictors for emergency readmission in patients with ureteral calculi: a focus on pain management and stone location

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Yunhyung Choi, Dong Hoon Lee, Yoon Hee Choi, Jae Young Choi, Ji Yeon Lim, Sung Jin Bae

Transplant nephrectomy: indication, surgical approach and complications—experiences from a single transplantation center

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Josef Mang, Josephine Haag, Lutz Liefeldt, Klemens Budde, Robert Peters, Sebastian L. Hofbauer, Matthias Schulz, Sarah Weinberger, Julia Dagnæs-Hansen, Andreas Maxeiner, Bernhard Ralla, Frank Friedersdorff

The prospective evaluation of learning curve of bipolar anatomic endoscopic prostate enucleation (AEEP) with Herrmann’s vapoenucleation probe

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Eda Tokat, Cenk Acar, Serhat Gurocak, Zafer Sinik

The optimal ratio of endoscope-sheath diameter with negative-pressure ureteral access sheath: an in vitro research

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Jingyu Shi, Ting Huang, Baiyang Song, Wanzhang Liu, Yue Cheng, Li Fang

Small intestinal submucosa graft bulbar urethroplasty is a viable technique: results compared to buccal mucosa graft urethroplasty after propensity score matching

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Enzo Palminteri, Stefano Toso, Mirko Preto, Lorenzo Gatti, Omid Sedigh, Nicolò Maria Buffi, Giovanni Ferrari, Andrea Gobbo

Long-term experiences with high-energy shock wave therapy in the management chronic phase Peyronie’s disease using two different electromagnetic lithotripters

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Jens J. Rassweiler, W. Scheitlin, A. S. Goezen, F. Radecke

Laser excision of urethral mesh erosion: a 10-year experience

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Caitlin E. Carlton, Jessie Y. Chen, Colby P. Souders, Ramy Goueli, Philippe E. Zimmern

Association between chronic prostatitis and the subsequent benign prostatic hyperplasia: a population-based national cohort study

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Tsung-Yen Lin, I-Hung Chen, Han-Yu Weng, Yu-Chiao Lin, Chien-Hui Ou, Chung-Yi Li, Yu-Sheng Cheng

Kidney transplantation in prostate cancer patients after local therapy with curative intent: a systematic review

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C. Rumpff, V. Lieb, B. Wullich, M. Schiffer, F. Kunath, H. Apel

Machine learning models for screening clinically significant nephrolithiasis in overweight and obese populations

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Hao-Wei Chen, Jung-Ting Lee, Pei-Siou Wei, Yu-Chen Chen, Jeng-Yih Wu, Chia-I. Lin, Yii-Her Chou, Yung-Shun Juan, Wen-Jeng Wu, Chung-Yao Kao

Predicting the risk of failed trial without catheter following Rezum™ therapy

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Mathieu Coscarella, Moncef Al Barajraji, Ilan Moussa, Leslie Hombert, Michel Naudin, Thierry Roumeguère

Factors affecting the intraoperative calculi excretion during flexible ureteroscopy lithotripsy: an in vitro analysis

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Baiyang Song, Yue Cheng, Yunfei Lu, Hao Rong, Ting Huang, Jingyu Shi, Li Fang

Robot-assisted vs open retropubic radical prostatectomy: a propensity score-matched comparative analysis based on 15 years and 18,805 patients

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Francesca Ambrosini, Sophie Knipper, Derya Tilki, Hans Heinzer, Georg Salomon, Uwe Michl, Thomas Steuber, Randi M. Pose, Lars Budäus, Tobias Maurer, Carlo Terrone, Pierre Tennstedt, Markus Graefen, Alexander Haese

Surgical procedure and recurrence of upper urinary tract stone: a national-wide study based on hospitalized patients

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Qin Wang, Yu Wang, Chao Yang, Jinwei Wang, Xiao-Chun Zhang, Luxia Zhang, Ming-Hui Zhao

Nadir prostate-specific antigen after salvage cryotherapy as a potential prognostic factor for oncologic outcomes

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E. Carbonell, C. Mercader, J. Sureda, A. Gutiérrez, J. Muñoz, E. Gallardo, N. Feltes, J. Mases, I. Valduvieco, A. Vilaseca, A. Franco, A. Alcaraz, M. Musquera, M. J. Ribal

Robot-assisted single-port retroperitoneal partial nephrectomy with a novel purpose-built single-port robotic system with deformable surgical instruments

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Chao Zhang, Zheng Wang, Taile Jing, Yong Wei, Fei Guo, Zongqin Zhang, Chengwu Xiao, Yang Wang, Hong Xu, Xiaofeng Wu, Shouyan Tang, Bo Yang, Shuo Wang, Bin Xu, Qingyi Zhu, Dan Xia, Linhui Wang

Construction and validation of the nomogram predictive model for post-percutaneous nephrolithotomy urinary sepsis

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Zuze Qiu, Shun Zhan, Yuanming Song, Liang Huang, Jing Xie, Tao Qiu, Changyong Zhao, Leibo Wang, Daobing Li

Transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation in patients with multiple sclerosis and overactive bladder: a real-life clinical and urodynamic assessment

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Claire Hentzen, Camille Chesnel, Philippe Lagnau, Emilie Blouet, Maëlys Teng, Gérard Amarenco

Primary hypospadias repair outcomes: results from a retrospective cohort of 292 children

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O. Hild, A. Fotso Kamdem, N. Boulard, F. Auber, Y. Chaussy

Comparison of metabolic parameters between pure-uric acid and mixed-uric acid kidney stone formers

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Anna Ricapito, Kavita Gupta, Jacob Zipkin, Samuel Yim, Christopher Connors, Raymond Khargi, Alan J. Yaghoubian, Johnathan A. Khusid, William M. Atallah, Mantu Gupta

Overactive bladder negatively affects erectile function and promotes premature ejaculation: findings from large representative population-level study

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Mikolaj Przydacz, Nadir Osman, Sabrina De Cillis, Cyrille Guillot-Tantay, Francois Herve, Tanja Hüsch, Ester Illiano, Antonio Tienza Fernandez, Manuela Tutolo, Luis Vale, Mehmet Gokhan Culha, Fabiana Cancrini, Steeve Doizi, Paolo Geretto, Nicholas Raison, Howard B. Goldman, Piotr Chlosta, Veronique Phe

Perioperative chemotherapy in bladder cancer: the more cisplatin, the best survival?

Letter to the Editor

Christian Pfister, Valentin Harter, Yves Allory, Stéphane Culine

Incorporating PHI in decision making: external validation of the Rotterdam risk calculators for detection of prostate cancer

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Leire Rius Bilbao, Urko Aguirre Larracoechea, Carmen Valladares Gomez, Sebastiaan Remmers, Carmen Mar Medina, Jose Gregorio Pereira Arias, Pablo Arredondo Calvo, Luis Felipe Urdaneta Salegui, Victor Escobal Tamayo, Juan Pablo Sanz Jaka, Adrian Recio Ayesa, Javier Mar Medina

A positive association between BMI and kidney stones among the diabetic population: a cross-sectional study from NHANES

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Jia Hao Wang, Er Hao Bao, Gui Yuan Chen, Ying Liu, Lin Yang, Jun Ji Wang, Yang Liu, Ping Yu Zhu, Tao Li

First prospective clinical assessment of the ILY® robotic flexible ureteroscopy platform

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Albert El-Hajj, Elia Abou Chawareb, Marwan Zein, Noura Wahoud

Cost-effectiveness of quality improvement intervention to reduce time between CT-detection and ureteroscopic laser fragmentation in acute symptomatic ureteric stones management

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Faid Khopekar, Soha Nabi, Mehdi Shiva, Morven Stewart, Benedict Rajendran, Ghulam Nabi

A historical comparison of thulium fiber laser systems for stone lithotripsy: navigating toward safe and effective parameters

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Alba Sierra, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Mariela Corrales, Catalina Solano, Luigi Candela, Olivier Traxer

Transient ureteral obstruction after mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy is associated with stone volume and location: results from a single-center, real-life study

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Marco Nizzardo, Stefano Paolo Zanetti, Andrea Marmiroli, Gianpaolo Lucignani, Matteo Turetti, Carlo Silvani, Franco Gadda, Fabrizio Longo, Elisa De Lorenzis, Giancarlo Albo, Andrea Salonia, Emanuele Montanari, Luca Boeri

Impact of timing of urinary drainage on clinical outcomes in patients with obstructive pyelonephritis associated with upper urinary tract stones: a propensity score-matched analysis

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Sotaro Kayano, Takafumi Yanagisawa, Yuji Yata, Keiichiro Miyajima, Shuhei Hara, Kosuke Iwatani, Taishiro Sasahara, Yu Imai, Masaya Murakami, Kenichi Hata, Toshihiro Yamamoto, Takahiro Kimura

Clinical efficacy of laparoscopic Lich–Gregoir versus transvesicoscopic Cohen reimplantation for ureterobladder junction malformations in children

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Rifang Pan, Qike Xie, Congjun Wang, Chen Su, Bo Shi, Yong Li, Junqiang Huang, Chao Chen

Prevalence and repair patterns of vesicovaginal fistula: a large retrospective population-based cohort analysis

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Sarah Neu, Jennifer A. Locke, Bo Zhang, Refik Saskin, Sender Herschorn

Accurate prediction of pure uric acid urinary stones in clinical context via a combination of radiomics and machine learning

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Binh D. Le, Tien A. Nguyen, Byung H. Baek, Kyung-Jin Oh, Ilwoo Park

Ureteral wall thickness as a predictor for non-invasive treatment success for steinstrasse. Can we save time?

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M. A. Elbaset, Diaa-Eldin Taha, Marwan Anas, Ahmed Elghareeb, Rasha T. Abouelkheir, Rawdy Ashour, K. Z. Sheir, Yasser Osman

Prognostic factors among patients with pathological Grade Group 5 prostate cancer based on robot-associated radical prostatectomy specimens from a large Japanese cohort (MSUG94)

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Takeshi Sasaki, Shin Ebara, Tomoyuki Tatenuma, Yoshinori Ikehata, Akinori Nakayama, Makoto Kawase, Masahiro Toide, Tatsuaki Yoneda, Kazushige Sakaguchi, Jun Teishima, Kazuhide Makiyama, Hiroshi Kitamura, Kazutaka Saito, Takuya Koie, Fumitaka Koga, Shinji Urakami, Takahiro Inoue

Comparison of Ga-PSMA PET MRI with mpMRI in localization and regional staging of prostate cancer

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Hiranya Deka, Ginil Kumar Pooleri, Badiginchala Suguna, Ramiah Rajeshkannan, Resmi Sekhar, M. R. Bindhu, Vishnu Prasad

Pulse modulation in En-Bloc HoLEP: does it really matter? A propensity score matched analysis

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Friedrich Otto Hartung, Luisa Egen, Britta Gruene, Maren Juliane Wenk, Karl-Friedrich Kowalewski, Paul Patroi, Marie-Claire Rassweiler-Seyfried, Maurice Stephan Michel, Jonas Herrmann

Predicting individual outcomes after radical cystectomy in urothelial variants with Cancer of the Bladder Risk Assessment (COBRA) score

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Caio Vinícius Suartz, Maurício Dener Cordeiro, Luiz Antonio Assan Botelho, Fábio Pescarmona Gallucci, David Hamilton Cho, Filipe de Arruda Pessoa, Flávio Rossi da Silva, Mateus Silva Santos Costa, Leonardo Cardili, François Audenet, José Maurício Mota, Paul Toren, William Carlos Nahas, Leopoldo Alves Ribeiro-Filho

Cardiovascular disease risk assessment and multidisciplinary care in prostate cancer treatment with ADT: recommendations from the APMA PCCV expert network

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Axel S. Merseburger, Ganesh Bakshi, Dong-Yi Chen, Edmund Chiong, Michel Jabbour, Jae Young Joung, Allen Yu-Hung Lai, Nathan Lawrentschuk, Tuan-Anh Le, Chi Fai Ng, Choon Ta Ng, Teng Aik Ong, Jacob See-Tong Pang, Danny M. Rabah, Narasimhan Ragavan, Kazuhiro Sase, Hiroyoshi Suzuki, Michelle Mui Hian Teo, Hiroji Uemura, Henry H. Woo

WATTS happening? Evaluation of thermal dose during holmium laser lithotripsy in a high-fidelity anatomic model

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Christopher Wanderling, Aaron Saxton, Dennis Phan, Karen Doersch, Lauren Shepard, Nathan Schuler, Thomas Osinski, Scott Quarrier, Ahmed Ghazi

The efficacy of artificial intelligence in urology: a detailed analysis of kidney stone-related queries

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Gökhan Cil, Kazim Dogan

Preoperative urine culture with contaminants is not associated with increased risk for urinary tract infection after ureteroscopic stone treatment

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Willian Ito, Nicholas Choi, George Letner, Nicholas Genz, Dillon Prokop, Crystal Valadon, Mihaela E. Sardiu, Holly Smith, Bristol B. Whiles, Wilson R. Molina

Can shear wave elastography predict the success of shock‑wave lithotripsy used in renal stones treatment? A prospective study

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Mohamed Samir, Abdelrahim Galaleldine, Tarek El-Zayat, Noha Diaa Eldin, Mahmoud A. Mahmoud, Diaa Mostafa

Retrospective analysis of the perioperative outcome in living donor kidney transplantation with multiple renal arteries: does accessory vessel ligation affect the outcome?

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Topic Paper

Jacob Schmidt, Robert Peters, Josef Mang, Bernhard Ralla, Diana Elena Moldovan, Julia Dagnæs-Hansen, Lutz Liefeldt, Klemens Budde, Markus Lerchbaumer, Frank Friedersdorff

The impact of the relationship between lesion diameter and total core length on the detection rate of clinically significant prostate cancer for PI-RADS 3 lesions

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Emrah Yakut

Trends in the use of radiation protection and radiation exposure of European endourologists: a prospective trial from the EULIS-YAU Endourology Group

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Sofia Fontanet Soler, Alejandra Bravo-Balado, Andreas Skolarikos, Christian Seitz, Olivier Traxer, Michele Talso, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Luca Villa, Amelia Pietropaolo, Etienne Xavier Keller, Panagiotis Kallidonis, Tarik Emre Sener, Udo Nagele, Vincent De Coninck, Zeeshan Hameed, Arman Tsaturyan, Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Ioannis Mikoniatis, Oliver Wiseman, Lazaros Tzelves, Esteban Emiliani

The impact of perioperative risk factors on long-term survival after radical cystectomy: a prospective, high-volume cohort study

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Nikolaos Pyrgidis, Gerald B. Schulz, Yannic Volz, Benedikt Ebner, Severin Rodler, Thilo Westhofen, Lennert Eismann, Julian Marcon, Christian G. Stief, Friedrich Jokisch

Treatment intensification strategies for men undergoing definitive radiotherapy for high-risk prostate cancer

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John Nikitas, Amar Kishan, Albert Chang, Sai Duriseti, Nicholas G. Nichols, Robert Reiter, Matthew Rettig, Wayne Brisbane, Michael L. Steinberg, Luca Valle

The influence of socioeconomic status and gender on incidence and survival in bladder cancer: a longitudinal study based on the Hamburg Cancer Registry

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Clemens M. Rosenbaum, Simon Filmar, Andreas J. Gross, Niklas Jobst, Annemarie Schultz

Evidence for clinically significant prostate cancer, overdiagnosis, active surveillance, and PSA screening

Letter to the Editor

Takeshi Takahashi

Improved early continence following laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: the urethral hammock technique

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Gernot Ortner, Hanne-Rose Honis, Julia Böhm, Marko Konschake, Theodoros Tokas, Udo Nagele

Extreme-hypofractionated RT with concomitant boost to the DIL in PCa: a 5-year update on oncological and patient-reported outcomes for the phase II trial “GIVE ME FIVE”

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Giulia Marvaso, Giulia Corrao, Ilaria Repetti, Chiara Lorubbio, Federica Bellerba, Mattia Zaffaroni, Maria Giulia Vincini, Dario Zerini, Sarah Alessi, Stefano Luzzago, Francesco Alessandro Mistretta, Cristiana Fodor, Raffaella Cambria, Federica Cattani, Francesco Ceci, Gennaro Musi, Ottavio De Cobelli, Thomas Zilli, Sara Gandini, Roberto Orecchia, Giuseppe Petralia, Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa

Modified Retzius-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for cases with anterior tumor: a propensity score-matched analysis

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Jiajun Qian, Yao Fu, Giancarlo Marra, Feifei Zhang, Xiao Wu, Danyan Li, Linfeng Xu, Xuefeng Qiu, Weidong Gan, Hongqian Guo

Real-world analysis of apalutamide-associated skin rash in Chinese patients with prostate cancer

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Zhen Yang, Yuan Shao, Hua Huang, Yang Liu, Zeyuan Wang, Yong Wang

Robotic YV plasty outcomes for bladder neck contracture vs. vesico-urethral anastomotic stricture

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Vanessa Viegas, Lucas Freton, Claire Richard, Camille Haudebert, Zine-eddine Khene, Juliette Hascoet, Gregory Verhoest, Romain Mathieu, Quentin Vesval, Lee C. Zhao, Karim Bensalah, Benoit Peyronnet

Combination of urinary biomarkers and machine-learning models provided a higher predictive accuracy to predict long-term treatment outcomes of patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome

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Jia-Fong Jhang, Wan-Ru Yu, Wan-Ting Huang, Hann-Chorng Kuo

Gender inequality in genitourinary malignancies clinical trials leadership

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Abdulrahman Alhajahjeh, Ahmed A. Abdulelah, Majedah Hmeidan, Diala Kakish, Razan Sukerji, Leen Qtaishat, Bashir Awamlh, Ryan W. Dobbs, Sana Al Sukhun, Pilar Laguna, Mohammed Shahait

High-intensity focused ultrasound with visually directed power adjustment for focal treatment of localized prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Samuel J. Peretsman, Mark Emberton, Neil Fleshner, Sunao Shoji, Clinton D. Bahler, Larry E. Miller

What should the optimal access site be for percutaneous treatment of anterior lower pole calyx stones?

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Mustafa Kucukyangoz, Adnan Gucuk

Unveiling the challenges of UTUC biopsies and cytology: insights from a global real-world practice study

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Joyce Baard, Luigi Cormio, Ranan Dasgupta, Daniele Maruzzi, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, Alvaro Serrano, Bogdan Geavlete, Stilianos Giannakopoulos, Jean de la Rosette, Pilar Laguna

Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the follow-up of non-muscle-invasive bladder tumors after intravesical instillations: a promising tool

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Clément Klein, Serge Brunelle, Mathias Illy, Valeria De Luca, Laure Doisy, François Lannes, Davidson Sypre, Nicolas Branger, Thomas Maubon, Stanislas Rybikowski, Mathilde Guérin, Gwenaëlle Gravis, Jochen Walz, Geraldine Pignot

Asymptomatic bacteriuria prior to partial and radical nephrectomy: To screen or not to screen? Results from the national and multicenter TOCUS database

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Elias Ayoub, Stessy Kutchukian, Pierre Bigot, Aurélien Dinh, Bastien Gondran-Tellier, Humphrey Robin, Marc Françot, Stéphane de Vergie, Jérôme Rigaud, Mathilde Chapuis, Laurent Brureau, Camille Jousseaume, Omar Karray, Fares T. Kosseifi, Shahed Borojeni, Aurélien Descazeaud, Harrison-Junior Asare, Maxime Gaullier, Baptiste Poussot, Thibault Tricard, Michael Baboudjian, Éric Lechevallier, Pierre-Olivier Delpech, Héloïse Ducousso, Simon Bernardeau, Franck Bruyère, Maxime Vallée

Incidence of complications and urinary incontinence following endoscopic enucleation of the prostate in men with a prostate volume of 80 ml and above: results from a multicenter, real-world experience of 2512 patients

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Vineet Gauhar, Daniele Castellani, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Mehmet Ilker Gökce, Khi Yung Fong, Nariman Gadzhiev, Vigen Malkhasyan, Giacomo Maria Pirola, Angelo Naselli, Abhay Mahajan, Pankaj Nandkishore Maheshwari, Sarvajit Biligere, Azimdjon N. Tursunkulov, Furkat Nasirov, Vladislav Petov, Marco Dellabella, Ee Jean Lim, Moisés Rodríguez Socarrás, Marek Zawadzki, Luigi Cormio, Gian Maria Busetto, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Bhaskar Kumar Somani, Dmitry Enikeev, Mario Sofer, Fernando Gómez Sancha

Feasibility of stereotactic optical navigation for needle positioning in percutaneous nephrolithotomy

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I. M. Spenkelink, X. Zhu, J. J. Fütterer, J. F. Langenhuijsen

PSA-density, DRE, and PI-RADS 5: potential surrogates for omitting biopsy?

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Fabian Falkenbach, Francesca Ambrosini, Mykyta Kachanov, Gernot Ortner, Tobias Maurer, Daniel Köhler, Dirk Beyersdorff, Markus Graefen, Lars Budäus

Transurethral bipolar enucleation using a TUEB loop for large benign prostatic hyperplasia: a retrospective cohort study

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Jun Hagiuda, Tsukasa Masuda, Ryohei Takahashi, Satoshi Tamaki, Ken Nakagawa

Deep learning using contrast-enhanced ultrasound images to predict the nuclear grade of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

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Yun Bai, Zi-Chen An, Fan Li, Lian-Fang Du, Tian-Wu Xie, Xi-Peng Zhang, Ying-Yu Cai

Treatment patterns and prognosis in patients with Bacillus Calmette–Guérin-exposed high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: a real-world data analysis

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Nobutaka Nishimura, Makito Miyake, Kota Iida, Tatsuki Miyamoto, Ryotaro Tomida, Kazuyuki Numakura, Junichi Inokuchi, Takahiro Yoneyama, Eijiro Okajima, Shugo Yajima, Hitoshi Masuda, Naoki Terada, Rikiya Taoka, Takashi Kobayashi, Takahiro Kojima, Yoshiyuki Matsui, Naotaka Nishiyama, Hiroshi Kitamura, Hiroyuki Nishiyama, Kiyohide Fujimoto

Patients undergoing double J substitution with a pigtail suture stent report a significant decrease of stent-related symptoms. Results from a prospective multicenter longitudinal trial

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Andrea Bosio, Stefania Ferretti, Eugenio Alessandria, Federico Vitiello, Eugenia Vercelli, Davide Campobasso, Luca Micai, Claudia Gozzo, Glauco Bertello, Giulio Gaetano Guarino, Claudia Alice, Alessandro Bisconti, Fabrizio Fop, Paolo Gontero

Adrenal fast-track and enhanced recovery in retroperitoneoscopic surgery for primary aldosteronism improving patient outcome and efficiency

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Elle C. J. van de Wiel, Janneke Mulder, Anke Hendriks, Ingeborg Booij Liewes-Thelosen, Xiaoye Zhu, Hans Groenewoud, Peter F. A. Mulders, Jaap Deinum, Johan F. Langenhuijsen

Illumination matters Part III: Impact of light obstruction on illuminance from flexible ureteroscopes — a comparative PEARLS analysis

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Jia-Lun Kwok, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Vincent De Coninck, Alba Sierra, Frédéric Panthier, Mariela Corrales, Yazeed Barghouthy, Vineet Gauhar, Benedikt Kranzbühler, Florian Alexander Schmid, Cédric Poyet, Daniel Eberli, Olivier Traxer, Etienne Xavier Keller

International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) guideline on staghorn calculi management

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Wen Zhong, Palle Osther, Margaret Pearle, Simon Choong, Giorgio Mazzon, Wei Zhu, Zhijian Zhao, Jorge Gutierrez, Daron Smith, Mohamad Moussa, Shashi Kiran Pal, Iliya Saltirov, Mumtaz Ahmad, Saeed Bin Hamri, Ben Chew, Albert Aquino, Amy Krambeck, Sanjay khadgi, Roger L. Sur, Selcuk Güven, Wael Gamal, Jianxing Li, Yongda Liu, Stefania Ferretti, Wissam Kamal, Liefu Ye, Norberto Bernardo, Shabir Almousawi, Mohamed Abdelkareem, Otas Durutovic, Guido Kamphuis, Marcus Maroccolo, Zhangqun Ye, Peter Alken, Kermal Sarica, Guohua Zeng

Author reply on the Letter to the Editor on “Standardized reports of focal-HIFU results is paramount: a closer look at the Duwe et al.’s cohort on focal HIFU for localized prostate cancer”

Letter to the Editor

Gregor Duwe, Axel Haferkamp, Thomas Höfner

Longitudinal evaluation of MRI findings, including quantitative apparent diffusion coefficient values, might be necessary to predict disease progression in patients with prostate cancer on active surveillance

Letter to the Editor

Naoko Mori

Prediction of pathological up-staging after radical nephroureterectomy in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma

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Kazunori Shojo, Toshikazu Takeda, Hirotaka Akita, Tatsuya Suzuki, Shuji Mikami, Keisuke Shigeta, Yota Yasumizu, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Shinya Morita, Takeo Kosaka, Ryuichi Mizuno, Hiroshi Asanuma, Masahiro Jinzaki, Mototsugu Oya

Cancer-specific mortality in non-metastatic T1a renal cell carcinoma treated with radiotherapy versus partial nephrectomy

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Mario de Angelis, Simone Morra, Lukas Scheipner, Carolin Siech, Letizia Maria Ippolita Jannello, Andrea Baudo, Jordan A. Goyal, Zhe Tian, Nicola Longo, Sascha Ahyai, Ottavio de Cobelli, Felix K. H. Chun, Fred Saad, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Luca Carmignani, Francesco Montorsi, Alberto Briganti, Pierre I. Karakiewicz

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The role of urology and radiology in prostate biopsy: current trends and future perspectives

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Benjamin M. Mac Curtain, Hugo C. Temperley, John A. O. Kelly, James Ryan, Wanyang Qian, Niall O’Sullivan, Kieran J. Breen, Colin J. Mc Carthy, Ian Brennan, Niall F. Davis

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Letter to the editor for the article “Antibiotics efficacy in clinical and microbiological cure of uncomplicated urinary tract infection: a systematic review and network meta-analysis”

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Platelet-rich plasma therapy in erectile dysfunction and Peyronie’s disease: a systematic review of the literature

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Endourological society fellowship program: a real contribution to improve surgical outcomes of stone patients treated with ureteroscopy

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Luca Villa, Daniele Robesti, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Luigi Candela, Christian Corsini, Alberto Briganti, Francesco Montorsi, Andrea Salonia, Olivier Traxer

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Letter to the editor for the article “The impact of health care on outcomes of suspected testicular torsion: results from the GRAND study”

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External validation of the barcelona magnetic resonance imaging predictive model for detecting significant prostate cancer including men receiving 5-alpha reductase inhibitors

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Machine learning enables automated screening for systematic reviews and meta-analysis in urology

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H.S. Menold , V.L.S Wieland , C.M. Haney , D. Uysal, F. Wessels, G.C. Cacciamani, M.S. Michel, S. Seide, K.F. Kowalewski

CT-based radiomics for predicting success of shock wave lithotripsy in ureteral stones larger than 1 cm

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Yi Qiang, Qi Zhang, Yangdongping Feng, Qiang Cao

Letter to the editor about “Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy in younger versus older adults with renal cell carcinoma: a propensity score-matched analysis”

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Illumination matters in flexible ureteroscopy: Part I-IV

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Jia-Lun Kwok, Olivier Traxer, Etienne Xavier Keller

Gender difference of bladder cancer: insights from hormone, anatomy and tumor microenvironment

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Letter to the editor for the article “Comparison of ciprofloxacin versus fosfomycin versus fosfomycin plus trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for preventing infections after transrectal prostate biopsy”

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Feasibility study of ADCs targeting TROP-2, HER2, and CD46 in Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Intraductal Carcinoma of the prostate

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Xingming Wang, Lin Qi, Minfeng Chen, Ye Zhang, Xiaomei Gao, Yi Cai

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Correction: Iatrogenic or recurrent bladder neck contracture treated by the Palminteri–Ferrari technique: a new way to approach a frustrating condition

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Enzo Palminteri, Simone Morselli, Luca Cindolo, Salvatore Rabito, Stefano Toso, Lorenzo Gatti, Riccardo Ferrari, Salvatore Micali, Giovanni Ferrari

Efficacy of lengthening right renal veins using accompanying gonadal veins in living donor kidney transplantation

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Sperm DNA fragmentation and infertility: a narrative review

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Imad Ziouziou, Amarnath Rambhatla, Rupin Shah, Ashok Agarwal

Re: Lin et al.: navigating the indistinct plane: emphasizing the role of anterior fibromuscular stroma in HoLEP

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Ke Liu, Xun Zhao, Chunlei Xiao

Exploring the role of anterior fibromuscular stroma preservation in enhancing continence: comparative outcomes in minimally invasive prostate surgery

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Yu-Hsiang Lin, Kuo Jen Lin, Yu-Ting Chen

A comment to “The relationship between stone-free and patient position in retrograde intrarenal surgery: a randomized prospective study”

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Effect of infundibulopelvic angle on outcomes of ureteroscopy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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James Leighton, Arran Dingwall, Sophie Whitehead, Angus Luk, Vineet Gauhar, Bhaskar Somani, Robert Geraghty

Letter to the editor for the article “Tamsulosin 0.8 mg daily dose in management of BPH patients with failed tamsulosin 0.4 mg monotherapy and unfit for surgical intervention”

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Jianghua Yang, Xiaofeng Jiang, Xiaoxing Liao

The impact of siphoning effect on renal pelvis pressure during ureteroscopy using an in vitro kidney and ureter model

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Hyung Joon Kim, Marne M. Louters, Julie J. Dau, Timothy L. Hall, Khurshid R. Ghani, William W. Roberts

Protocol description and initial experience in kidney graft perfusion using infrared thermography

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M. Ciappara Paniagua, B. Gutierrez Hidalgo, J. Gomez Rivas, E. Redondo Gonzalez, I. De la Parra Sanchez, I. Galindo Herrero, J. Martin Monterrubio, B. Bañuelos Marco, D. Tueti Silva, M. I. Galante Romo, J. Moreno Sierra

Effect of climate on emergency department admissions for renal colic: a comparative analysis of sedentary and non-sedentary lifestyles

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Sivan Mark, Amit Shemesh, Orit Raz, Amir Cooper, Adi Leibe, Hanan Goldberg, Yulia Balmakov, Yevhenii Ivashynenko, Meitar Atias, Dor Golomb

Adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors for urothelial carcinoma: systematic review and Meta-analysis

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Rashid K. Sayyid, Rui Bernardino, Julian Chavarriaga, Ravi Kumar, Harkanwal Randhawa, Marian S. Wettstein, Jessica Grace Cockburn, Zachary Klaassen, Neil E. Fleshner

Optimizing hemostasis in HoLEP surgery: retrospective review of selective bipolar plasmakinetic technology guided by bladder irrigation fluid color

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Hengda Hu, Wenpu Chen, Weixiong Ma, Chengshuai Yu, Qirui He, Jinrong Tang, Guofeng Yu

Intrarenal pressure and flow rate profile using LithoVue™ elite: impact of different irrigation systems and working channel instruments

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Lucas B. Vergamini, Wilson R. Molina, Willian Ito, Aaron Tverye, Quinnlyn Walcott, Holly E. Du, Mihaela E. Sardiu, Crystal Valadon, Daniel R. Hanna, Donald Neff, David A. Duchene, Bristol B. Whiles

Low-cord orchidectomy for testicular cancer: what would be different?

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Ege A. Sarıkaya, Volkan Şen, Kutsal Yörükoğlu, Ozan Bozkurt

Delayed hematuria after prostatic photovaporization: risk factors to know

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Ali Bourgi, Franck Bruyère

Effects of external neuromuscular electrical stimulation in women with urgency urinary incontinence: a randomized sham-controlled study

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Tugba Birben Kurt, Bulent Yilmaz, Seyda Toprak Celenay

Analysis of percutaneous nephrostomy exchange intervals: insights from a retrospective Merative MarketScan analysis between 2009-2021

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John T. Moon, Jenny Nguyen, Julian Ricci, Deepak Iyer, Nathan Sim, Janice Newsome, Hanzhou Li, Zachary Bercu

Association between the oxidative balance score and kidney stones in adults

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Qiongqiu Chen, Wenshuo Bao, Xianghui Kong, Jun Zhu, Saimiao Hou, Yuanfeng Zhang, RuXian Ye, Chongguo Fang, Chengpeng Li, Feilong Miao, Wu Chen, Linbin Wu

Factors affecting the non-publication of clinical trials of prevalent urological cancer

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Abdulrahman Alhajahjeh, Majedah Hmeidan, Ahmed A. Abdulelah, Israa Al-Nezaa, Faris Al-Abbadi, Ryan W. Dobbs, Zahi Abdul Sater, Bashir Al Hussein Al Awamlh, David I. Lee, Mohammed Shahait

Population pharmacokinetics of tamsulosine in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia

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Valentina N. Nikolic, Slobodan M. Jankovic, Maja Vujovic, Srdjan Sterovic, Ljubomir A. Dinic, Jasmina R. Milovanovic

Preoperative blood-based nutritional biomarkers as significant prognostic factors after intravesical BCG therapy in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

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Junjiang Ye, Cai Tang, Ruicheng Wu, Yin Tang, Hesheng Yin, Yunjin Bai, Ping Han

Half-life of serum alpha-fetoprotein in prepubertal testicular yolk sac tumors: an index significantly associated with prognosis

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Zonghan Li, Pei Liu, Jiayi Li, Zhenzhen Yang, Songqiao Fan, Zikun Shao, Yujie Xia, Zihong Wang, Xinyu Wang, Ning Sun, Weiping Zhang, Hongcheng Song

Letter to the editor for the article “Pilot study for bladder cancer detection with volatile organic compounds using ion mobility spectrometry: a novel urine-based approach”

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Yuxuan Song, Tao Xu

Refining surgical strategies in ThuLEP for BPH: a propensity score matched comparison of En-bloc, three lobes, and two lobes techniques

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The impact of preoperative 5-alpha reductase inhibitors on functional outcomes and health-related quality of life following radical prostatectomy – A propensity score matched longitudinal study

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Thilo Westhofen, Kerstin Frank, Alexander Buchner, Armin Becker, Lennert Eismann, Severin Rodler, Can Aydogdu, Elena Berg, Friedrich Jokisch, Philipp M. Kazmierczak, Christian G. Stief, Alexander Kretschmer

Comparison of automated kidney stone size measurement and volumetry in photon counting CT compared to 3rd generation dual energy CT and physically measurements – an ex vivo study

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Tim Nestler, Rico Stoll, Hans Schmelz, Justine Schoch, Albrecht Hesse, Kai Nestler, Kerstin Smolka, Sebastian Faby, Markus Jürgens, Bernhard Schmidt, Katja Spornitz, Daniel Overhoff, Stephan Waldeck

Correction: Prospective comparison of tadalafil 5 mg alone, silodosin 8 mg alone, and the combination of both in treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms related to benign prostatic hyperplasia

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Mostafa AbdelRazek, Ahmad Abolyosr, Omar Mhammed, Atef Fathi, Mohammed Talaat, Ahmed Hassan

Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy: is less fractionation more effective in adrenal and renal malignant lesions?

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Daniel Rivas, Alejandro de la Torre-Luque, Elena Moreno-Olmedo, Paloma Moreno, Vladimir Suárez, Ana Serradilla, Gregorio Arregui, David Álvarez, Morena Sallabanda, Antonio Lazo, María Isabel Núñez, Escarlata López

The long-term learning curve of holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) in the en-bloc technique: a single surgeon series of 500 consecutive cases

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M. J. Wenk, F. O. Hartung, L. Egen, C. Netsch, M. Kosiba, B. Grüne, Jonas Herrmann

Novel anti-reflux ureteral skirt: proof of concept in a Yorkshire-Landrace pig model

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Yadong Lu, Jeremy Y. J. Tay, Kheng Sit Lim, Lay Guat Ng

The role of VI-RADS scoring criteria for predicting oncological outcomes in bladder cancer

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Mieszko Kozikowski, Magdalena Zagrodzka, Marek Zawadzki, Przemysław Zugaj, Rafał Osiecki, Franciszek Rzymkowski, Mateusz Śledź, Roman Sosnowski, Jakub Dobruch, Francesco Del Giudice, Wojciech Krajewski

The GG genotype of rs743572 in CYP17A1 gene regulating the decrease of T/E ratio can be an independent risk factor for MetS-BPH: a retrospective cohort study

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Congcong Chen, Ningrui Pan, Zongping Chen, Chengren Gou, Xu He, Min Wang, Bo Chen, Zidong Zhou, Qixu Ren, Youzhuang Zhong, You Xiang, Sicong Zhao, Yong Yan, Tao Song

Declining utilization of urodynamic studies in urological care in Germany: time to say goodbye?

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Martin Baunacke, Livia Kontschak, Viktoria Menzel, Markus Grabbert, Angelika Borkowetz, Sherif Mehralivand, Nicole Eisenmenger, Johannes Huber, Christian Thomas, Daniela Schultz-Lampel

Impact of adrenalectomy on hypertension in patients with nonfunctional adrenal tumors: a retrospective study

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Current urethroplasty trends in recent GURS fellowship graduates

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Nikolas Moring, Andrea Juneau, Paul J. Feustel, Uzoma A. Anele, Brian M. Inouye

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Moncef Al Barajraji, Ilan Moussa, Gian-Luca Soscia, Michel Naudin, Louise Lempereur, Mathieu Coscarella

Performance of ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 on the European Board of Urology (EBU) exams: a comparative analysis

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Justine Schoch, H.-U. Schmelz, Angelina Strauch, Hendrik Borgmann, Tim Nestler

Letter to the editor about “Preoperative proteinuria correlates with renal function after partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma”

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Wei Qi, Xinyan Wu, Yangdongping Feng, Qiang Cao

Comparative analysis of scoring systems for patients undergoing retrograde intrarenal surgery with isolated lower calyx stones

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Hakan Bahadir Haberal, Muhammed Arif Ibis, Serkan Akpinar, Burak Uyanikoglu, Halil Ekmen, Fahri Erkan Sadioglu, Cagri Senocak, Omer Faruk Bozkurt

Letter to the editor for the article “The impact of health care on outcomes of suspected testicular torsion: results from the GRAND study”

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Guanjun Lu, Haisheng Yan, Lexin Wang, Gang Huang, Rui Wang, Jie Liu

Factors associated with pathological up-staging in MRI cT3a prostate cancer – a retrospective study from a high-volume centre

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Jonathan Ferguson, Danny Darlington Carbin, Wissam Abou Chedid, Santiago Uribe, Julian Peacock, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Constantinos Adamou, Torath Ameen, Umberto Carbanara, Joseph Gabriel, Venkata Ramana Murthy Kusuma, James Hicks, Dimitrios Moschonas, Krishna Patil, Matthew Perry

Grading urothelial carcinoma with probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy during flexible cystoscopy

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Ben-Max de Ruiter, Jan Erik Freund, C. Dilara Savci-Heijnink, Jons W. van Hattum, Theo M. de Reijke, Joyce Baard, Guido M. Kamphuis, D. Martijn de Bruin, Jorg R. Oddens

Upfront versus deferred cytoreductive nephrectomy following targeted or immunotherapy: a population-based propensity score-matched analysis of perioperative complications

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Neuro-urology

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Eugenio Ventimiglia, Daniele Robesti, Etienne Xavier Keller, Christian Corsini, Andrea Folcia, Margherita Fantin, Luigi Candela, Edoardo Pozzi, Alba Sierra, Amelia Pietropaolo, Bhaskar K. Somani, Frederic Panthier, Felipe Pauchard, Ioannis Kartalas Goumas, Luca Villa, Francesco Montorsi, Olivier Traxer, Andrea Salonia, Paola Saccomandi

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Xun Zhao, Zhuo Liu, Ji-yuan Chen, Wei Guo, Hong-xian Zhang, Xiao-jun Tian, Guo-liang Wang, Cheng Liu, Lu-lin Ma, Shu-dong Zhang

Using artificial intelligence to generate medical literature for urology patients: a comparison of three different large language models

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David Pompili, Yasmina Richa, Patrick Collins, Helen Richards, Derek B Hennessey

Letter to the editor for the article “Feasibility assessment of catheter-free water vapor thermal therapy for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia”

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Jianghua Yang, Xi Meng, Xiaoxing Liao

A review of urinary bladder microbiome in patients with bladder cancer and its implications in bladder pathogenesis

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Panagiotis Velissarios Stamatakos, Charalampos Fragkoulis, Ieronymos Zoidakis, Konstantinos Ntoumas, Zisis Kratiras, Iraklis Mitsogiannis, Athanasios Dellis

Prostate cancer screening; empirical clinical practice conducted for 70 years

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Takeshi Takahashi

Evaluation of androgen receptor and androgen receptor splice-variant 7 in bladder cancer; a novel approach into an ancient topic

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Comment on “Efficacy of lengthening right renal veins using accompanying gonadal veins in living donor kidney transplantation”

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Lingxiang Ran, Zongrui Liu, Yanping Tang, Hongfei Ge, Rui Zhao, Guangmo Hu

Pubic bone osteomyelitis and fistulas after radiation therapy of the pelvic region: patient-reported outcomes and urological management of a rare but serious complication

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Margarete Teresa Walach, Anoshirwan Andrej Tavakoli, Greta Thater, Maximilian Christian Kriegmair, Maurice Stephan Michel, Marie-Claire Rassweiler-Seyfried

Prospective close monitoring of the effect of vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy and high intensity focused ultrasound of localized prostate cancer by multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging

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Olga Solyanik, Michael Chaloupka, Dirk-André Clevert, Vanessa F. Schmidt, Maria Ingenerf, Philipp Kazmierczak, Christian G. Stief, Jens Ricke, Maria Apfelbeck

Risk and protective factors for secondary procedures after endoscopic dilatation of primary obstructive megaureters

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Sonia Pérez-Bertólez, Oriol Martín-Solé, Isabel Casal-Beloy, Mar Carbonell, Paula Salcedo, Blanca Capdevila, Luis García-Aparicio

Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in urinary tract infections identification and prediction: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Li Shen, Jialu An, Nanding Wang, Jin Wu, Jia Yao, Yumei Gao

The impact of cannabis use disorder on urologic oncologic surgery morbidity, length of stay, and inpatient cost: analysis of the National Inpatient Sample from 2003 to 2014

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Monopolar versus bipolar transurethral resection of bladder Tumour: post-hoc analysis of a prospective trial

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Real-world experience with the new pulsed solid-state Thulium: YAG laser (Thulio) for endoscopic enucleation of the prostate

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Maximilian Ferry von Bargen, M. Glienke, S. Tonyali, A. Sigle, K. Wilhelm, M. Schoenthaler, C. Gratzke, A. Miernik

Patient-derived bladder cancer organoids show stable transcript expression along cultivation

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Philipp Vollmer, Bastian Amend, Niklas Harland, Arnulf Stenzl, Igor Tsaur, Moritz Maas, Wilhelm K. Aicher, Simon Walz

An in-vitro model for bacteria-related catheter encrustations

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Jürgen Pannek, Jasmin Mahler, Carmen Kurmann, Alexandra Widmer, Jörg Krebs, Jens Wöllner

Does concordance between preoperatively measured prostate volume and enucleated weight predict outcomes in endoscopic enucleation of the prostate? Results from the REAP database

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Khi Yung Fong, Vineet Gauhar, Daniele Castellani, Ee Jean Lim, Mario Sofer, Dmitry Enikeev, Fernando Gómez Sancha, Jeremy Teoh, Bhaskar Somani, Thomas Herrmann

Assessment of hemodynamic and blood parameters that may reflect macroscopic quality of porcine kidneys during normothermic machine perfusion using whole blood

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Carla Steinhauser, Abdulbaki Emre Yakac, Wenke Markgraf, Susanne Kromnik, Andreas Döcke, Philipp Talhofer, Christine Thiele, Hagen Malberg, Susanne Füssel, Christian Thomas, Juliane Putz

Letter to the editor for the article “Endoscopic intervention versus radical nephroureterectomy for the management of localized upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies”

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Guangquan Yuan, Yifei Zhu, Bo Chen, Yi Wang

Consensus statement addressing controversies and guidelines on pediatric urolithiasis

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Recurrences after nephron-sparing treatments of renal cell carcinoma: a competing risk analysis

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Do we need a re-TUR after en bloc resection of T1 stage bladder cancer?

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Evaluation of homeobox protein B13 (HOXB13) gene G84E mutation in patients with prostate cancer

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Melih Bıyıkoğlu, Rojda Tanrıverdi, Murat Bozlu, Samet Şenel, Şenay Balcı Fidancı, Lülüfer Tamer, Erdem Akbay

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The early learning curve of the bipolar enucleation of the prostate: a multicenter cohort study

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Reply to YuHsiang Lin, ChenPang Hou, and ChunTe Wu’s letter to the editor beyond traditional stenting: evaluating pigtail suture stents for reduced ureterorenoscopy symptoms

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Andrea Bosio, Eugenio Alessandria, Paolo Gontero

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Taseen F. Haque, Alireza Ghoreifi, Farshad Sheybaee Moghaddam, Masatomo Kaneko, David Ginsberg, Rene Sotelo, Inderbir Gill, Mihir Desai, Monish Aron, Anne Schuckman, Siamak Daneshmand, Hooman Djaladat

Prostate-specific membrane antigen-radioguided surgery salvage lymph node dissection: experience with fifty oligorecurrent prostate cancer patients

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Roman Mayr, Simon Udo Engelmann, Yushan Yang, Maximilian Haas, Thomas Schmid, Marco Julius Schnabel, Johannes Breyer, Daniel Schmidt, Matthias Eiber, Stefan Denzinger, Maximilian Burger, Dirk Hellwig, Jutta Moosbauer, Jirka Grosse

Long survivors after radical cystectomy versus healthy population: propensity score matched analysis of health-related quality of life

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Riccardo Mastroianni, Andrea Iannuzzi, Alberto Ragusa, Rocco Simone Flammia, Gabriele Tuderti, Umberto Anceschi, Alfredo Maria Bove, Aldo Brassetti, Simone D’Annunzio, Mariaconsiglia Ferriero, Leonardo Misuraca, Flavia Proietti, Marianna Anselmi, Salvatore Guaglianone, Costantino Leonardo, Rocco Papalia, Giuseppe Simone

Prevalence and potential predictors of incidental prostate Cancer in patients undergoing surgery for Benign Prostatic obstruction: a retrospective study in the MRI era

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Francesco Esperto, Loris Cacciatore, Francesco Tedesco, Gianluigi Raso, Antonio Minore, Antonio Testa, Alberto Ragusa, Francesco Prata, Antonio Alcini, Annamaria Salerno, Gerardo Paolo Flammia, Rocco Papalia, Roberto Mario Scarpa

UroLift to preserve seminal parameters in young male with LUTS from BPH

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Pasquale Annese, Nicola d’Altilia, Ugo Giovanni Falagario, Edoardo Tocci, Vincenzo Mirone, Giuseppe Simone, Angelo Porreca, Carlo Bettocchi, Francesca Sanguedolce, Gian Maria Busetto, Giuseppe Carrieri

Steady-state versus burst lasing techniques for thulium fiber laser

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Alba Sierra, Catalina Solano, Mariela Corrales, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Frederic Panthier, Jia-Lun Kwok, Marie Chicaud, Etienne Xavier Keller, Olivier Traxer

Differential effect of surgical technique on intravesical recurrence after radical nephroureterectomy in patients with upper tract urothelial cancer: a systematic review and Meta-analysis

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Ichiro Tsuboi, Akihiro Matsukawa, Mehdi Kardoust Parizi, Jakob Klemm, Robert J Schulz, Anna Cadenar, Stefano Mancon, Sever Chiujdea, Tamás Fazekas, Marcin Miszczyk, Ekaterina Laukhtina, Tatsushi Kawada, Satoshi Katayama, Takehiro Iwata, Kensuke Bekku, Koichiro Wada, Paolo Gontero, Morgan Rouprêt, Jeremy Teoh, Nirmish Singla, Motoo Araki, Shahrokh F. Shariat

Simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation: future perspective

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Thomas Prudhomme, Benoit Mesnard, Julien Branchereau, Mathieu Roumiguié, Charlotte Maulat, Fabrice Muscari, Nassim Kamar, Michel Soulié, Xavier Gamé, Federico Sallusto, Marc Olivier Timsit, Sarah Drouin

The effect of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) in renal surgery

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Susan E. M. Elferink, Reini Bretveld, Annemiek B. G. Kwast, Marino Asselman, Judith G. J. Essink, Jan-Willem Potters, Job van der Palen

Real-world data on the prevalence of BRCA1/2 and HRR gene mutations in patients with primary and metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer

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Moritz Hommerding, Oliver Hommerding, Marit Bernhardt, Tobias Kreft, Christine Sanders, Verena Tischler, Patrick Basitta, Natalie Pelusi, Anna-Lena Wulf, Carsten-Henning Ohlmann, Jörg Ellinger, Manuel Ritter, Glen Kristiansen

Letter to the editor for the article “A machine learning approach using stone volume to predict stone-free status at ureteroscopy”

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Emre Altıntaş, Ali Şahin, Murat Gül

Checking vesicourethral anastomosis for urinary extravasation during radical prostatectomy: is it still necessary in the robotic era? A prospective, randomized case-control study

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Bora Ozveren, Nejdet Karsiyakali, Mahir Bulent Ozgen, Levent Turkeri

Urinary continence outcomes, surgical margin status, and complications after radical prostatectomy in 2,141 German patients treated in one high-volume inpatient rehabilitation clinic in 2022

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Henning Bahlburg, Patricia Rausch, Karl Heinrich Tully, Sebastian Berg, Joachim Noldus, Marius Cristian Butea-Bocu, Burkhard Beyer, Guido Müller

Development and validation of a novel nomogram to avoid unnecessary biopsy in patients with PI-RADS category ≥ 4 lesions and PSA ≤ 20 ng/ml

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Hong Zeng, Yuntian Chen, Jinge Zhao, Jindong Dai, Yandong Xie, Minghao Wang, Qian Wang, Nanwei Xu, Junru Chen, Guangxi Sun, Hao Zeng, Pengfei Shen

Revisiting the external urethral sphincter: new anatomical insights from a human cadaver study

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Irfan Safak Barlas, Halil Cagri Aybal, Mehmet Duvarci, Zeynep Akdagcik, Mehmet Emin Aksoy, Yesim Saglican, Tuncay Peker, Selcuk Guven, Lutfi Tunc

Contribution of canine olfaction in the diagnostic strategy of intermediate and high-risk prostate cancer: a double-blind validation study

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Jean-François Hermieu, Margaux Hermieu, Alice Roux, Loïc Desquilbet, Nicolas Hermieu, Capucine Gallet, Evanguelos Xylinas, Alexandre De La Taille, Dominique Grandjean

Anatomic endoscopic enucleation of the prostate using a novel hybrid thulium:yttrium–aluminium-garnet laser generator: surgical technique and clinical outcomes

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Eugenio VENTIMIGLIA, Luca ORECCHIA, Luigi BEVILACQUA, Elena TONDELLI, Isabella OLIVA, Luca CINDOLO, Ioannis KARTALAS GOUMAS

Incidence of febrile post-procedural urinary tract infection following voiding cystourethrography in children without prior urine culture

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Lauren Doval, Annabel Paye-Jaouen, Ugo Maria Pierucci, Amane-Allah Lachkar, Charlotte Duneton, Pauline Lopez, Anca Tanase, Marianne Alison, Alaa El-Ghoneimi, Matthieu Peycelon

Direct in-scope suction: an in vitro evaluation of a single use flexible ureteroscope with integrated suction capability

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Aideen Madden, Carlos Altez, Jordi Peña Lueza, Răzvan-Ionut Popescu, Johan Cabrera, Mariela Corrales, Olivier Traxer

Risk factors and prediction model for postoperative complications in patients with struvite stones after percutaneous nephrolithotomy and flexible ureteroscopy

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Cong Tian, Jiajia Qiao, Lizhe An, Yang Hong, Qingquan Xu, Liulin Xiong, Xiaobo Huang, Jun Liu

Letter to the editor for the article “Transperineal laser ablation (TPLA) of the prostate for benign prostatic obstruction: the first 100 patients cohort of a prospective, single-center study”

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Yanpeng Zhao, Jianghua Yang

Letter to the editor for the article “Association between the oxidative balance score and kidney stones in adults”

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Huangyi Yin, Yue Qiu, Yajiang Liu, Wei Huang

Functional outcomes following external beam radiation therapy for patients with prior holmium laser enucleation of the prostate

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Ethan Wajswol, David J. Crompton, Todd Igel, Albert Attia, Chandler Dora

Letter to the editor for the article “Patients undergoing double J substitution with a pigtail suture stent report a significant decrease of stent‑related symptoms. Results from a prospective multicenter longitudinal trial”

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Yuxia Shen, Dan Mao, Xia Cai, Xia Chen

Letter to the editor for the article “Optimizing hemostasis in HoLEP surgery: retrospective review of selective bipolar plasmakinetic technology guided by bladder irrigation fluid color”

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Xiaofeng Jiang, Ming Jin, Xi Meng, Xiaoxing Liao, Jianghua Yang

Reply to letter to the editor for the article “Risk factors of early infectious complications after ureterorenoscopy for stone disease: a prospective study”

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Vincent De Coninck, Brecht Devos, Etienne Xavier Keller

Comparison of outcomes of radical and partial nephrectomy for sarcomatoid renal cell carcinoma: analysis of the national cancer database

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Luke L. Wang, Kit L. Yuen, Cesare Saitta, Margaret F. Meagher, Franklin Liu, Melis Guer, Dhruv Puri, Yu-Wei Chen, Juan Javier-Desloges, Rana R. McKay, Ithaar H. Derweesh

Efficiency of HoLEP in patients with detrusor underactivity and renal dysfunction secondary to BPO

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Dengke Yang, Qian Sun, Weiyuan Li, Yibin Wang, Haining Qian, Dong Li

Letter to the editor: “Comparison of the bone mineral density status of patients with kidney stones stratified by stone composition”

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Hongwei Ma, Musen Zhong, Xiaoping Zhang, Zhongcheng An

Letter to the Editor about “Recurrences after nephron-sparing treatments of renal cell carcinoma: a competing risk analysis”

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Yi Qiang, Yuquan Chen, Jiatong Pan, Qiang Cao

Electroacupuncture combined with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is beneficial for the expulsion of ureteral calculi: a prospective randomized trial

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Heng Zhang, Lihua Li, Weizheng Li, Wei Wei, Tianyu Bai, Qiang Wei, Yongliang Ni

Active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer with high tumor burden at biopsy: lessons learned from a contemporary radical prostatectomy cohort

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Jauffray Oliva, Vassili Anastay, Michael Baboudjian, Mathieu Roumiguié, Alexandre Peltier, Charles Dariane, Gaelle Fiard, Thierry Roumeguère, Romain Diamand, Mohamed Bakhri, Jean-Baptiste Beauval, Thibaut Long-Depaquit, Guillaume Ploussard, Alessandro Uleri

Comment on “Comparison of the bone mineral density status of patients with kidney stones stratified by stone composition”

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Yi Zhang, Chenghua Zhu, Baolong Wang

Cryotherapy versus radical prostatectomy as a salvage treatment for radio-recurrent prostate cancer

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Juan Gomez Rivas, Mark Taratkin, Camilla Azilgareeva, Andrey Morozov, Silvia Laso, Dmitry Enikeev, Jesús Moreno Sierra, Ksenia Schelkunova, Francesco Sanguedolce, Alberto Breda, Alexander Govorov, Alexander Vasilyev, Marcos Cepeda, Lukas Lusuardi, Maximilian Pallauf, Antonio Celia, Tommaso Silvestri, Cristian Fiori, Esaú Fernández, Juan Ignacio Martínez-Salamanca, Eric Barret

Efficacy and tolerance of hyperthermic intravesical chemotherapy (HIVEC) according to the number of instillations administered

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Pierre-Etienne Gabriel, Géraldine Pignot, Michael Baboudjian, Cédric Lebacle, Alexandre Chamouni, Eric Lechevallier, Jacques Irani, Xavier Tillou, Thibaut Waeckel, Arnaud Monges, Jochen Walz, Gwenaelle Gravis, Céline Duperron, Xavier Carpentier, Clément Klein, Alexandra Masson-Lecomte

Safety and feasibility of “three arms settings” robot-assisted radical prostatectomy using the Hugo RAS system: surgical set-up in a double-center large case series

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Alberto Ragusa, Francesco Prata, Andrea Iannuzzi, Francesco Tedesco, Loris Cacciatore, Alessandro Rocca, Paolo Caccia, Catalina Bogea, Monica Marelli, Angelo Civitella, Roberto Mario Scarpa, Giovanni Muto, Rocco Papalia

One-year outcomes of polyacrylamide hydrogel (Bulkamid) injection in women with stress and mixed urinary incontinence

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Alessandro Uleri, Fabienne Marchand, Arnaud Cherasse, William Berchiche, Christopher Agüero, Mamadou B. Bah, Michael Baboudjian, Marc Fourmarier

Nocturia and obstructive sleep apnea in spinal cord injured patients – a cohort study

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C. Lambert, J. Di Maria, P. Denys, A. Even, A. Welniarz, S. Hartley, H. Prigent, A. Leotard, Charles Joussain

Systematic review and recommendations for re-irradiation for intraprostatic radiorecurrent prostate cancer after definitive radiation therapy

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Anjali L. Saripalli, Bhanu Prasad Venkatesulu, Nicholas G. Nickols, Luca F. Valle, Matthew M. Harkenrider, Amar U. Kishan, Abhishek A. Solanki

HER2 expression in upper tract urothelial carcinoma and the relationship with clinicopathological characteristics—an analysis of 155 patients in Southwest China

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Jianjun Ye, Zeyu Chen, Xinyang Liao, Xingyuan Wang, Chichen Zhang, Ping Han, Qiang Wei, Yige Bao

Correction: Infection risk reduction with povidone-iodine rectal disinfection prior to transrectal prostate biopsy: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

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Early experience with targeted and combination biopsies in prostate cancer work-up in Denmark from 2012 to 2016

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Anna Arendt Blak, Hein V. Stroomberg, Klaus Brasso, Signe Benzon Larsen, Andreas Røder

Trends and incidence of reported events associated with ureteral stents: an analysis of the food and drug administration’s manufacturer and user facility device experience (MAUDE) database

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Riccardo Lombardo, Alessio Guidotti, Beatrice Turchi, Antonio Nacchia, Giuseppe Santoro, Matteo Romagnoli, Antonio Franco, Giorgia Tema, Giorgio Guarnotta, Antonio Cicione, Giorgio Franco, Andrea Tubaro, Cosimo De Nunzio

A bench-top evaluation of the Ily® robotics assisted tele console system in ureteroscopy by medical students, residents and urologists: does prior videogaming experience help shape the learning curve?

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Ahmed Alanazi, Aideen Madden, Lucien Vanpoperinghe, Paula Calugaru, Alberto Quarà, Lachlan Dokter, Stefano Moretto, Johan Cabrera, Mariela Corrales, Olivier Traxer

Prediction of undetectable circulating tumor DNA by comprehensive genomic profiling assay in metastatic prostate cancer: the SCRUM-Japan MONSTAR SCREEN project

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Masaki Shiota, Nobuaki Matsubara, Taigo Kato, Masatoshi Eto, Takahiro Osawa, Takashige Abe, Nobuo Shinohara, Koshiro Nishimoto, Yota Yasumizu, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Mototsugu Oya, Takao Fujisawa, Satoshi Horasawa, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Takayuki Yoshino, Norio Nonomura

Follow-up strategies after trimodal treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a systematic review

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Ernest Kaufmann, Stefanie Aeppli, Winfried Arnold, Panagiotis Balermpas, Jörg Beyer, Uwe Bieri, Richard Cathomas, Berardino de Bari, Marco Dressler, Daniel S. Engeler, Andreas Erdmann, Andrea Gallina, Silvia Gomez, Matthias Guckenberger, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Thomas Hermanns, Lucca Ilaria, Hubert John, Thomas M. Kessler, Jan Klein, Mohamed Laouiti, David Lauffer, Agostino Mattei, Michael Müntener, Daniel Nguyen, Philipp Niederberger, Alexandros Papachristofilou, Lukas Prause, Karsten Reinhardt, Emanuela Salati, Philippe Sèbe, Mohamed Shelan, Räto Strebel, Arnoud J. Templeton, Ursula Vogl, Marian S. Wettstein, Deborah Zihler, Thomas Zilli, Daniel Zwahlen, Beat Roth, Christian Fankhauser

The application of the “perinephric fat wrapping” technique with oral mucosal graft for the management of ureter repair and reconstruction

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Yu Jiang, Chao Yang, Lu Fang, Ruilong Chen, Xiang Li, Chao Jiang, Wei Hu, Hengbao Chen, Dexin Yu, Yi Wang

Letter to the editor for the article “Diagnostic performance of photodynamic diagnosis with oral 5-aminolevulinic acid for upper tract- and bladder urothelial carcinoma: a single-centre, retrospective analysis”

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Ruohui Huang, Liang Peng

Bicenter validation of a risk model for the preoperative prediction of extraprostatic extension of localized prostate cancer combining clinical and multiparametric MRI parameters

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Nicola Edith von Ostau, Analena Elisa Handke, Manuel Wiesenfarth, Peter Albers, Gerald Antoch, Joachim Noldus, Henning Reis, Cristina Cotarelo, Julia Preetz, Lale Umutlu, Marc Ingenwerth, Jan Philipp Radtke, Boris Hadaschik, Lars Schimmöller, Claudia Kesch

Letter to the editor for the article “Pilot study for bladder cancer detection with volatile organic compounds using ion mobility spectrometry: a novel urine-based approach”

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Igor Duquesne, Dimitri Vordos, Alexandre de la Taille

New staging criteria predicting m-tor inhibitors treatment effect of renal angiomyolipoma in tuberous sclerosis complex patients

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Wenda Wang, Dongxu Qiu, Yang Zhao, Zhan Wang, Xu Wang, Yanan Li, Yi Liu, Zhangcheng Liao, Yushi Zhang

The modified Whitaker test in evaluating the surgical effect after ileal ureter replacement

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Silu Chen, Chen Huang, Zhenyu Li, Xinfei Li, Zhihua Li, Xiang Wang, Kunlin Yang, Peng Zhang, Hongjian Zhu, Xuesong Li

Urosepsis after ureterorenoscopy, intraoperative recognition of type-IV stones could change clinical practice

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Maxime Pattou, Laurent Yonneau, Amaury de Gouvello, Christophe Almeras, Christian Saussine, Andras Hoznek, Etienne Denis, Eric Chabannes, Eric Lechevallier, Nadia Abid, Jacques Hubert, Vincent Estrade, Paul Meria

Transrectal versus transperineal prostate fusion biopsy: a pair-matched analysis to evaluate accuracy and complications

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Marco Oderda, Romain Diamand, Rawad Abou Zahr, Julien Anract, Gregoire Assenmacher, Nicolas Barry Delongchamps, Alexandre Patrick Bui, Daniel Benamran, Giorgio Calleris, Charles Dariane, Mariaconsiglia Ferriero, Gaelle Fiard, Fayek Taha, Alexandre Fourcade, Georges Fournier, Karsten Guenzel, Adam Halinski, Giancarlo Marra, Guillaume Ploussard, Katerina Rysankova, Jean-Baptiste Roche, Giuseppe Simone, Olivier Windisch, Paolo Gontero

The efficacy of second-line tyrosine kinase inhibitor for patients with metastatic non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma following first-line immune-oncology combination therapy

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Kazutoshi Fujita, Yuto Matsushita, Shingo Toyoda, Takahiro Kojima, Shimpei Yamashita, Hisanori Taniguchi, Keisuke Monji, Ryo Ishiyama, Shuichi Tatarano, Kimihiko Masui, Eijiro Nakamura, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Goshi Kitano, Takanobu Motoshima, Shiraishi, Satoru Kira, Takaya Murashima, Hiroaki Hara, Matsumura, Naotaka Nishiyama, Hideaki Miyake, Hiroshi Kitamura, Hirotsugu Uemura

Exploring the competency of the comprehensive complication index over the clavien–dindo classification in standard percutaneous nephrolithotomy: a call for better complication reporting

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Hakan Bahadir Haberal, Tayfun Anlar, Fatih Celik, Cengizhan Ayik, Fahri Erkan Sadioglu, Cagri Senocak, Omer Faruk Bozkurt

Associations between inflammatory burden index, prostate cancer, and mortality among middle-aged and elderly individuals

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Junpeng Deng, Jingqi Hua, Tengyue Zeng, Hongliang Que, Qijie Zhang, Quan Li, Jianjun Xie, Jun Ouyang

Identifying risk factors for urologic complications in placenta accreta spectrum surgical management

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Lory Hage, Yoann Athiel, Mathilde Barrois, Vlad Cojocariu, Michaël Peyromaure, François Goffinet, Igor Duquesne

Comment on “A review of urinary bladder microbiome in patients with bladder cancer and its implications in bladder pathogenesis”

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Yuxuan Song, Jingyi Chen, Yun Peng, Shan Jiang, Tao Xu

Clinical application of radiomics for the prediction of treatment outcome and survival in patients with renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review

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Zine-Eddine Khene, Isamu Tachibana, Theophile Bertail, Raphael Fleury, Raj Bhanvadia, Payal Kapur, Satwik Rajaram, Junyu Guo, Alana Christie, Ivan Pedrosa, Yair Lotan, Vitaly Margulis

Indocyanine green and methylene blue dye guided sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with penile cancer (PeCa): results of 50 inguinal basins assessed at a single institution in India

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Mohan Amaresh, Rakesh M. Sharma, Anupam Choudhary, Abhijit Shah, B. Vishal Rao, Thammineedi Subramanyeshwar Rao

Partial prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer

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Yue Wu, Chengwei Wang, Xiangyu Long, Tao Wang, Zhihua Wang, Chunguang Yang, Shaogang Wang

Letter to the editor for the article “Preoperative proteinuria correlates with renal function after partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma”

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Feng Jin, Yiqi Huang, Yanling Zhang

Letter to the editor for the article “Pubic bone osteomyelitis and fstulas after radiation therapy of the pelvic region: patient-reported outcomes and urological management of a rare but serious complication”

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Yi Zhang, Shaoping Feng, Yaxiang Huang, Chenghua Zhu

Re: letter to the editor for the article “Health-related quality of life following salvage radical prostatectomy for recurrent prostate cancer after radiotherapy or focal therapy”

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Severin Rodler, Christian Stief, Thilo Westhofen

Young age and adequate BCG are key factors for optimal BCG treatment efficacy in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

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Kang Liu, Rossella Nicoletti, Hongda Zhao, Xuan Chen, Hongwei Wu, Chi-Ho Leung, David D’Andrea, Ekaterina Laukhtina, Francesco Soria, Andrea Gallioli, Marcelo Langer Wroclawski, Daniele Castellani, Vineet Gauhar, Juan Gomez Rivas, Dmitry Enikeev, Paolo Gontero, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Peter Ka-Fung Chiu, Chi-Fai Ng, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh

Can we rely on magnetic resonance imaging for prostate cancer detection and surgical planning? Comprehensive analysis of a large cohort of patients undergoing transperineal mapped biopsies

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Nidia Gómez Diez, Pedro de Pablos-Rodríguez, David Sánchez-Mateos Manzaneque, María Isabel Martín García, Paula Pelechano Gómez, María Barrios Benito, Ana Calatrava Fons, Jessica Aliaga Patiño, Juan Boronat Catalá, Álvaro Gómez-Ferrer Lozano, Augusto Wong Gutiérrez, Ángel García Cortés, Miguel Ramírez Backhaus, Juan Casanova Ramón Borja, Manel Beamud Cortés, José Luis Domínguez Escrig, Antonio Coy García

Correction: Consensus statement addressing controversies and guidelines on pediatric urolithiasis

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Hyper-realistic rendering-assisted laparoscopic adrenalectomy for giant adrenal tumors: a pilot study

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Jiamo Zhang, Ke Hu, Jing Qing, Jiangchuan Chen, Changlong Li, Yongxia Zhou

Changing times: trends in risk classification, tumor upstaging, and positive surgical margins after radical prostatectomy - results from a contemporary National Cancer Database study

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Pedro F. S. Freitas, Ruben Blachman-Braun, Nachiketh Soodana-Prakash, Adam D. Williams, Chad R. Ritch, Sanoj Punnen, Mark L. Gonzalgo, Dipen Parekh, Bruno Nahar

Radical cystectomy in patients aged < 80 years versus ≥ 80 years: analysis of preoperative geriatric assessment scores in predicting postoperative morbidity and mortality

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Gregor Duwe, Isabel Wagner, Katarzyna E. Banasiewicz, Lisa Johanna Frey, Nikita Dhruva Fischer, Johann Bierlein, Niklas Rölz, Maximilian Haack, Rene Mager, Christopher C. M. Neumann, Katharina Boehm, Peter Sparwasser, Igor Tsaur, Mohamed M. Kamal, Axel Haferkamp, Maximilian Peter Brandt, Thomas Höfner

Patient-reported outcomes after one-stage neourethral reconstruction in transmen with phalloplasty-associated strictures and fistulas

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Victor M. Schuettfort, Rebecca R. Graf, Malte W. Vetterlein, Tim A. Ludwig, Philipp Gild, Phillip Marks, Armin Soave, Roland Dahlem, Margit Fisch, Silke Riechardt

External validation of the MiGUTS nomogram for the prediction of bleeding control intervention after renal trauma

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Tobias Simon Schmidli, Silvan Sigg, Sorena Keihani, Lars Bosshard, Michael Prummer, Anna S. Nowag, Jan Birzele, Chong Zhang, Jeremy B. Myers, Räto T. Strebel

Letter to the editor for the article “Performance of ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 on the European Board of Urology (EBU) exams: a comparative analysis”

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Yuxuan Song, Tao Xu

Decision regret analysis in early URSL vs medical expulsive therapy 1 for ureteric calculi ≤ 1cm

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Anshuman Singh, Arun Chawla, Kasi Viswanath Gali, Sunil Pillai Bhaskara, Padmaraj Hegde, Charan Kothuri, Jean de la Rosette, Pilar Laguna

Robotic female artificial urinary sphincter implantation vs. male artificial urinary sphincter implantation for non-neurogenic stress urinary incontinence

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Alexandre Dubois, Valentine Lethuillier, Claire Richard, Camille Haudebert, Imad Bentellis, Mehdi EL-Akri, Lucas Freton, Andrea Manunta, Juliette Hascoet, Benoit Peyronnet

The impact of non-structured PSA testing on prostate cancer-specific mortality on New Zealand Māori men

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Bashar Matti, Cindy H. Nguyen, Mataroria P. Lyndon, Kamran Zargar-Shoshtari

Retroperitoneal vs transperitoneal laparoscopic pyelolithotomy; a single surgeon’s experience

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Hamid Pakmanesh, Ali Salari

First clinical evaluation of a flexible digital ureteroscope with direct in scope suctioning system (Pusen DISS 7.5Ch): prospective multicentric feasibility study

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Carlotta Nedbal, Steffi Kar Kei Yuen, Mahir Akram, Etienne Xavier Keller, Begoña Ballesta Martínez, Joe Philip, Esteban Emiliani, Joseph K. M. Li, Damiano Stracci, Vineet Gauhar, Daniele Castellani, Bhaskar Kumar Somani

Ablation efficiency and laser safety of a novel superpulsed thulium fiber laser: a in vitro study

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Zhonghua Shen, Junjie Liang, Linguo Xie, Chunyu Liu

Clinical features and sequelae of detrusor underactivity: a study of possible cause and effect

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J. Vuthiwong, Stewart Whalen, Qu LG, J. Gani

Utilizing computed tomography-based renal parenchymal volumes to calculate split renal function in patients with ureteral stricture disease

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Emily Ji, Rebecca Arteaga, Aidan Raikar, Jonathan Rosenfeld, Devin Boehm, Jaewoo Kim, Linda Kelahan, Ziho Lee

Trends of European School of Urology (ESU) training and resident education: an overview of 2 decades of EAU education programme

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Bhaskar Somani, Juan Gomez-Rivas, Tiago Ribeiro de Oliveira, Domenico Veneziano, Ton Brouwers, Claudia Herrmann, Jacobijn Sedelaar-Maaskant, James N’Dow, Joan Palou, Nan Li, Carlotta Nedbal, Chandra Shekhar Biyani, Ben Van Cleynenbreugel, Evangelos Liatsikos

A systematic review of robot-assisted simple prostatectomy outcomes by prostate volume

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Andrey Morozov, Svetlana Bogatova, Evgeny Bezrukov, Nirmish Singla, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Leonid Spivak, Juan Gomes Rivas, Lukas Lusuardi, Vineet Gauhar, Bhaskar Somani, David Lifshitz, Jack Baniel, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Dmitry Enikeev

Challenges in diagnosis and treatment of cystinuria patients with Urolithiasis: multicenter patient centered study

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Wissam Khalid Kamal, Mohammed Abuzenada, Raed A. Azhar, Musab M. Alghamdi, Hassan Aljifri, Yahya Ghazwani, Aiman Al Solumany, Abdulaziz Alamri, Saeed Bin Hamri, Ahmad Bugis, Abdulaziz Almanie, Yasser A. Noureldin

Ejaculation preserving TURP (Ep-TURP): A viable alternative in sexually active males with BOO–a single centre prospective randomized study

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Arvind Ramachandran, Karthik M. Chavannavar, Gayathri Thiruvengadam, Hariharasudhan Sekar, Sriram Krishnamoorthy

Intravenous indocyanine green to evaluate distal ureteral vascularity during robot-assisted radical cystectomy with intracorporeal urinary diversion

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Enric Carbonell, Alba Sierra, Clàudia Mercader, Mònica Peradejordi, Maria Muní, Alberto Tello, Héctor Alfambra, Carmen Martínez, Tarek Ajami, Laura Izquierdo, Antoni Vilaseca, María José Ribal, Antonio Alcaraz, Raúl Martos, Mireia Musquera

General anesthesia is associated with lower perioperative bleeding and better functional outcomes than spinal anesthesia for endoscopic enucleation of the prostate: a single-center experience

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Carlo Silvani, Gianpaolo Lucignani, Carolina Bebi, Matteo Turetti, Francesco Ripa, Stefano Paolo Zanetti, Elisa De Lorenzis, Giancarlo Albo, Fabrizio Longo, Franco Gadda, Emanuele Montanari, Luca Boeri

Ultrasound-guided renal artery balloon catheter occluded hybrid partial nephrectomy (UBo-HPN) with branch renal artery occlusion: a single arm trial

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Tianrun Ye, Xu Shi, Yang Yu, Gan Yu, Bin Xu, Zongbiao Zhang, Shen Wang, Zheng Liu, Ke Chen, Shaogang Wang, Heng Li

Preoperative multidisciplinary team meeting improves the incidence of positive margins in pathological T2 prostate cancer

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Kohei Kobatake, Keisuke Goto, Yukiko Honda, Miki Naito, Kenshiro Takemoto, Shunsuke Miyamoto, Yohei Sekino, Hiroyuki Kitano, Kenichiro Ikeda, Keisuke Hieda, Akihiro Goriki, Nobuyuki Hinata

Evaluating the efficacy and safety of Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate in patients with obstructive uropathy attributable to bladder outlet obstruction

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Ansh Bhatia, Joao G. Porto, Renil S. Titus, Jean C. Daher, Theodora M. Zavos, Diana M. Lopategui, Robert Marcovich, Hemendra N. Shah

Does sheath size matter: benchtop comparison of flow and pressure across variety of continuous flow endoscopes

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Vishnuvardhan Ganesan, Michael Borofsky, Deepak Agarwal

Association between kidney stones and life’s essential 8: incorporation of additional clinically relevant covariates is recommended

Correspondence

Bei Zhang, Yajie Wang

Role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced and clinically positive nodes Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma treated with Nephroureterectomy: real-world data from the ROBUUST 2.0 Registry

Research

Gabriele Tuderti, Riccardo Mastroianni, Flavia Proietti, Zhenjie Wu, Linhui Wang, Antonio Franco, Firas Abdollah, Marco Finati, Matteo Ferro, Marco Tozzi, Francesco Porpiglia, Enrico Checcucci, Raj Bhanvadia, Vitaly Margulis, Stephan Bronimann, Nirmish Singla, Kevin Hakimi, Ithaar H. Derweesh, Andreas Correa, Emma Helstrom, Dinno F. Mendiola, Mark L. Gonzalgo, Reuben Ben David, Reza Mehrazin, Sol C. Moon, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, Courtney Yong, Chandru P. Sundaram, Antonio Tufano, Sisto Perdonà, Alireza Ghoreifi, Farshad S. Moghaddam, Hooman Djaladat, Francesco Ditonno, Alessandro Antonelli, Riccardo Autorino, Giuseppe Simone

Predictors of symptomatic relief in water vapor thermal therapy for prostatic hyperplasia: 36-month prospective study

Research

Juan Sebastián Arroyave, Francisca Larenas, Ragheb Massouh, Diego Gonzalez, Pablo Villafranca Brown, Sebastián Arroyo Concha, Tania Avayú Zaliasnik, Belén Giménez, Michael Palese, Juan Fulla

Second-generation MOSES 2.0 versus MOSES 1.0 pulse-modulation technologies for holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP)

Research

Hazem Elmansy, Ryan Boudreau, Amr Hodhod, Saud Alhelal, Husain Alaradi, Khaled Alotaibi, Ruba Abdul Hadi, Oksana Blahitko, Ryan Kelly, Ahmed S. Zakaria

Bladder Cancer detection by urinary methylation markers GHSR/MAL: a validation study

Open Access
Research

I. J. Beijert, Y. van den Burgt, A. E. Hentschel, J. Bosschieter, P. C. Kauer, B. I. Lissenberg-Witte, R. J.A. van Moorselaar, J. A. Nieuwenhuijzen, R. D.M. Steenbergen

Artificial intelligence in urolithiasis: a systematic review of utilization and effectiveness

Review

Abdullah Altunhan, Selim Soyturk, Furkan Guldibi, Atinc Tozsin, Abdullatif Aydın, Arif Aydın, Kemal Sarica, Selcuk Guven, Kamran Ahmed

Perioperative and functionnal outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic versus open ureterovesical reimplantation for benign lower ureteral pathologies: a single-center comparative study

Research

Anthony Kanbar, Ugo Pinar, Louis Lenfant, Jérome Parra, Christophe Vaessen, Sarah Drouin, Pierre Mozer, Aurélien Beaugerie, Emmanuel Chartier-Kastler, Morgan Roupret, Thomas Seisen

Androgen deprivation therapy, neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy, and adjuvant androgen deprivation therapy in patients with locally advanced prostate cancer: a multi-center real-world retrospective study

Research

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Impact of tumor dissecting technique on trifecta achievement in patients requiring extended warm ischemia during robot-assisted partial nephrectomy

Research

Yudai Ishiyama, Tsunenori Kondo, Kazuhiko Yoshida, Junpei Iizuka, Toshio Takagi

The efficacy and safety of three different single-use ureteroscopes in retrograde intrarenal surgery: a comparative analysis of a single surgeon’s experience in a single center

Research

Mehmet Fatih Şahin, Erdem Can Topkaç, Serkan Şeramet, Çağrı Doğan, Cenk Murat Yazıcı

Enzalutamide versus abiraterone acetate in the development of new-onset or worsening type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: EVADE study

Open Access
Research

Amit Bahl, Hanna Sodatonou, Robert Snjider, Andrew Chilelli, Alessandra Pranzo, Karla Martins, Axel Merseburger, Nigel Rozario, Danielle Crawley

Optimizing risk stratification for intermediate-risk prostate cancer – the prognostic value of baseline health-related quality of life

Open Access
Research

Thilo Westhofen, Alexander Buchner, Simon Lennartz, Severin Rodler, Lennert Eismann, Can Aydogdu, Darjusch Askari-Motlagh, Elena Berg, Enya Feyerabend, Philipp Kazmierczak, Friedrich Jokisch, Armin Becker, Christian G. Stief, Alexander Kretschmer

Efficacy of high-dose vitamin D supplementation vs. solifenacin or standard urotherapy for overactive bladder dry in children: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial

Research

Hongsong Chen, Zhicheng Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Chong Wang, Zhenmin Liu, Zihan Ye, Xiao Wang, Yanxi Wang, Xing Liu, Guanghui Wei

Short-term postoperative recovery for patients after Thulium Laser Vapoenucleation of Prostate: evaluation of the impact of lower urinary tract symptoms on quality of life

Research

Jiayan Luan, Chuqiao Song, Deng Li, Lei Chen, Di Cui, Yuyang Zhao, Yuan Ruan, Xiaohai Wang, Yifeng Jing, Wenhuan Guo, Shujie Xia, Yiping Zhu

An in vitro study of irrigation rate, operator duty cycle and intrarenal temperature in superpulse fiber thulium laser lithotripsy

Open Access
Research

Tianfu Ding, Zheng Xu, Zhongyue Huang, Bo Xiao, Weiguo Hu, Jianxing Li

A new spectrum of neonatal urethral pathologies in the era of early vesicoamniotic shunting?

Research

J. Kohaut, G. Holtkamp, J. Fischer-Mertens, D. Schulten, S. Kohl, S. Habbig, E. C. Weber, I. Gottschalk, C. Berg, M. Dübbers

Polish validation of the wisconsin stone quality of life questionnaire (POL-WISQoL)

Open Access
Research

Wojciech Tomczak, Wojciech Krajewski, Joanna Chorbińska, Łukasz Nowak, Katarzyna Grunwald, Adam Chełmoński, Jan Łaszkiewicz, Bartosz Małkiewicz, Tomasz Szydełko

Cutaneous ureterostomy following robot-assisted radical cystectomy: a multicenter comparative study of transperitoneal versus retroperitoneal techniques

Open Access
Research

Yutaro Sasaki, Yasuyo Yamamoto, Kyotaro Fukuta, Kazuyoshi Izumi, Fumiya Kadoriku, Kei Daizumoto, Keito Shiozaki, Ryotaro Tomida, Yoshito Kusuhara, Tomoya Fukawa, Yutaka Yanagihara, Kunihisa Yamaguchi, Hirofumi Izaki, Masayuki Takahashi, Kenjiro Okamoto, Masahito Yamanaka, Junya Furukawa

Development of a multivariate model predictive of post-adrenalectomy renal function decline in patients with primary aldosteronism: a large-cohort single-center study

Research

Wenhao Lin, Juping Zhao, Chen Fang, Wei He, Xin Huang, Fukang Sun, Jun Dai

Effect of standard urotherapy to children with overactive bladder on quality of life

Research

Rong Dai, Yue Chen, Shuangfeng Fan, Jingjie Xia, Shan Jiang, Yun Peng, Changkai Deng

Streamlined surgical approach for coexistent urethral stricture and benign prostatic enlargement: feasibility, safety and patency results

Research

Jordán Scherñuk, Juan Diego Tinajero, Federico Tirapegui, Mariano Sebastián González, Carlos Roberto Giudice, Gabriel Andrés Favre

Effect of intrarenal pelvic pressure on pyelo-tubular backflow and renal cortical blood perfusion during mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy

Research

Lei Zhou, Chen Zhang, Xiao-Lin Zhan, Mian Li, Nan-Yan Luo, Wei-Wei Wu, Xiao-Ma Zhang

The relationship between neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, platelet/neutrophil ratio, and risk of urosepsis in patients who present with ureteral stones and suspected urinary tract infection

Research

Juliana Villanueva-Congote, David Hinojosa-Gonzalez, Michal Segall, Brian H. Eisner

Incidence and mortality of prostate cancer in France from 2010 to 2021, using a real-life database (National Health Data System - SNDS) – the CaPCo Study

Research

Hugo Crespin, Anne-Isabelle Lecuyer, Emeline Laurent, Franck Bruyere, Leslie Grammatico-Guillon

Artificial intelligence versus human touch: can artificial intelligence accurately generate a literature review on laser technologies?

Research

Frédéric Panthier, Hugh Crawford-Smith, Eduarda Alvarez, Alberto Melchionna, Daniela Velinova, Ikran Mohamed, Siobhan Price, Simon Choong, Vimoshan Arumuham, Sian Allen, Olivier Traxer, Daron Smith

Is it worth using the Comprehensive Complication Index over the Clavien–Dindo classification in elderly patients who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy?

Research

Alexandre Danilovic, Gustavo Perrone, Lucas Dias, Giovanni Marchini, Fabio Torricelli, Carlos Batagello, Fabio Vicentini, William C. Nahas, Eduardo Mazzucchi

Battle of the bots: a comparative analysis of ChatGPT and bing AI for kidney stone-related questions

Research

Amber K. McMahon, Russell S. Terry, Willian E. Ito, Wilson R. Molina, Bristol B. Whiles

Omission of intraoperative drain placement during robotic partial nephrectomy and robotic radical prostatectomy is safe: an analysis of 18,000 patients

Open Access
Research

John Pfail, Jake Drobner, Alain Kaldany, Kevin Chua, Benjamin Lichtbroun, Rachel Passarelli, Hiren Patel, Arnav Srivastava, David Golombos, Thomas L. Jang, Vignesh T. Packiam, Saum Ghodoussipour

Implementation of surgical rehearsal utilizing patient specific hydrogel kidney phantoms prior to complex renal cancer surgery: a pilot study

Research

Ahmed Ghazi, Patrick Saba, Nathan Shuler, Lauren Shepard, Tyler Holler, Ahmed Radwan, Hani Rashid

Prognostic implications and diagnostic significance of TFE3 rearrangement in renal cell carcinoma

Open Access
Research

Carmina Muñoz Bastidas, Mario Tapia Tapia, Andrés Calva López, Vanessa Talavera Cobo, Juan Colombas Vives, Eduardo Miraval Wong, Cristina Gutiérrez Castané, Francisco Javier Ancizu Marckert, Marcos Torres Roca, Luis Labairu Huerta, Fernando Diez-Caballero Alonso, José Enrique Robles García, Felipe Villacampa Aubá, Daniel González Padilla, Bernardino Miñana López, Daniel Sánchez Zalabardo

Regression and growth rates in androgen deprivation therapy for advanced castration-sensitive prostate cancer

Research

Leandro Blas, Masaki Shiota, Hideyasu Matsuyama, Toshiyuki Kamoto, Hideki Enokida, Naohiro Fujimoto, Hideki Sakai, Tsukasa Igawa, Tomomi Kamba, Akira Yokomizo, Seiji Naito, Masatoshi Eto

Evaluation of complications and biochemical recurrence rates after (super) extended lymph node dissection during radical prostatectomy

Open Access
Research

Diederik J.H. Baas, Bas Israël, Joost M.S. de Baaij, Henricus J.E.J. Vrijhof, Robert J. Hoekstra, Heidi Kusters-Vandevelde, Peter F.A. Mulders, J. P. Michiel Sedelaar, Diederik M. Somford, Jean-Paul A. van Basten

Optimal deflection techniques for flexible and navigable suction ureteral access sheaths (FANS): a comparative in vitro PEARLS analysis

Research

Alex Lua, Lynnette R. L. Tan, Frédéric Panthier, Alba Sierra, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Catalina Solano, Vincent De Coninck, Steffi Kar Kei Yuen, Vineet Gauhar, Olivier Traxer, Etienne Xavier Keller, Jia-Lun Kwok

Circular RNA circABCC4 as the ceRNA facilitates renal carcinoma progression

Research

Yongjie Yao, Tianchen Wang, Shilun Li, Qixiang Song, Kai Yuan

Prostate cancer lesions in transition zone exhibit a higher propensity for pathological upgrading in radical prostatectomy

Open Access
Research

Xin Chen, He Wang, Chaozhong Wang, Chengbo Qian, Yuxin Lin, Yuhua Huang, Xuedong Wei, Jianquan Hou

A 3-arm randomized control trial to compare the efficacy of re-circulant hyperthermic intravesical chemotherapy versus conventional intravesical mitomycin C and BCG therapy for intermediate-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

Research

Ankit Sachan, Rishi Nayyar, Sahil Pethe, Prashant Singh, Amlesh Seth

A nomogram to predict “pure” vs. “mixed” uric acid urinary stones

Open Access
Research

Liran Zieber, Gherman Creiderman, Muhammad Krenawi, Daniel Rothenstein, Dmitry Enikeev, Yaron Ehrlich, David Lifshitz

Exposure to the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and prostate cancer among U.S. adult men

Research

Frank Glover, Michael Eisenberg, Francesco Del Giudice, Federico Belladelli, Albert Ha, Michael Scott, Christopher Filson

The infection post flexible UreteroreNoscopy (I-FUN) predictive model based on machine learning: a new clinical tool to assess the risk of sepsis post retrograde intrarenal surgery for kidney stone disease

Research

Daniele Castellani, Virgilio De Stefano, Carlo Brocca, Giorgio Mazzon, Antonio Celia, Andrea Bosio, Claudia Gozzo, Eugenio Alessandria, Luigi Cormio, Runeel Ratnayake, Andrea Vismara Fugini, Tonino Morena, Yiloren Tanidir, Tarik Emre Sener, Simon Choong, Stefania Ferretti, Andrea Pescuma, Salvatore Micali, Nicola Pavan, Alchiede Simonato, Roberto Miano, Luca Orecchia, Giacomo Maria Pirola, Angelo Naselli, Esteban Emiliani, Pedro Hernandez-Peñalver, Michele Di Dio, Claudio Bisegna, Davide Campobasso, Emanuele Serafin, Alessandro Antonelli, Emanuele Rubilotta, Deepak Ragoori, Emanuele Balloni, Marina Paolanti, Vineet Gauhar, Andrea Benedetto Galosi

Trend of ambulatory benign prostatic obstruction surgeries during COVID-19 pandemic

Research

Zhiyu Qian, Dejan Filipas, Edoardo Beatrici, Jamie Ye, Mansoo Cho, Filippo Dagnino, Hanna Zurl, Daniel Stelzl, David F. Friedlander, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Alexander P. Cole, Lori B. Lerner

Clinical significance of stone culture during endourological procedures in predicting post-operative urinary sepsis: should it be a standard of care—evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis from EAU section of Urolithiasis (EULIS)

Research

Francesco Ripa, Clara Cerrato, Zafer Tandoğdu, Christian Seitz, Emanuele Montanari, Simon Choong, Alimuddin Zumla, Thomas Herrmann, Bhaskar Somani

Influence of metastatic sites and burden on oncological outcomes in patients progressing to metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer

Open Access
Research

Mike Wenzel, Benedikt Hoeh, Clara Humke, Florestan Koll, Cristina Cano Garcia, Carolin Siech, Thomas Steuber, Markus Graefen, Miriam Traumann, Luis Kluth, Felix K. H. Chun, Philipp Mandel

Impact of weight loss on the risk of urinary incontinence: the role of sex and body type

Research

Feng Chen, Hao Lin, Yuansi Zhang, Yu Zhang, Maoping Chu, Lulu Pan

Outcomes after robot-assisted radical cystectomy with orthotopic neobladder in women

Open Access
Research

Juhana Rautiola, Alberto Martini, Laura S Mertens, Viktor Skokic, Luca Di Gianfrancesco, Carlo Andrea Bravi, Julia Heinzelbecker, Mikolaj Mendrek, Stephan Buse, Guillaume Ploussard, Hubert John, Abdullah Erdem Canda, Mevlana Derya Balbay, Sebastian Edeling, Charles Van Praet, Sami-Ramzi Leyh-Bannurah, Alexander Mottrie, Frederiek D’Hondt, Hendrik van der Poel, Camille Berquin, Karel Dacaestecker, Richard Gaston, Peter Wiklund, Abolfazl Hosseini

Tumor regression after neoadjuvant hormonal therapy in high risk prostate cancer: pathological outcomes from a randomized phase II trial

Research

Leonardo Cardili, Diogo Assed Bastos, Eder Nisi Ilario, Marina Alessandra Pereira, Giuliano Bettoni Guglielmetti, Maurício Cordeiro, José Pontes Jr., Rafael Ferreira Coelho, William Carlos Nahas, Katia Ramos Moreira Leite

Oncological outcomes of organ-sparing cystectomy versus standard radical cystectomy in male patients diagnosed with bladder cancer

Research

Zeyu Han, Yaxiong Tang, Xianyanling Yi, Jin Li, Jianzhong Ai

Use of omentum during robotic-assisted reconstructive urological surgery: a systematic review of the current literature

Review

Christopher Anderson, Theodoros Spinos, Evangelos Liatsikos, Panagiotis Kallidonis, Vasileios Tatanis, Anja Dietel, Toni Franz, Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg

Reply to Letter to the Editor about “Recurrences after nephron-sparing treatments of renal cell carcinoma: a competing risk analysis” by Qiang et al

Correspondence

Andreas Karlsson Rosenblad, Bassam Mazin Hashim, Per Lindblad, Börje Ljungberg, Anca Dragomir, Anders Kjellman, Bianca Scholtz, Britt-Inger Dahlin, Emma Mangelus, Emma Ulvskog, Linn Pettersson, Magnus Lindskog, Marcus Thomasson, Martin Johansson, Mikael Hellström, Per Skoglund, Pernilla Sundqvist, Sigrid Isaksson, Stephanie Bonn, Susanna Holst, Sven Lundstam, Ulrika Harmenberg

Letter to the editor: transrectal versus transperineal prostate fusion biopsy—a pair-matched analysis to evaluate accuracy and complications

Correspondence

Kamil Malshy, Thomas Osinski, Trevor C. Hunt, Jean Joseph

Letter to the editor for the article “Transrectal versus transperineal prostate fusion biopsy: a pair-matched analysis to evaluate accuracy and complications”

Correspondence

Ziyi He, Chenxi Wang, Huichuan Tian

Thirty-five years of the French Association of Urologists in Training (AFUF) a scoping review and bibliometric analysis of scientific literature conducted by urologists in training

Research

Emilien Seizilles de Mazancourt, Anna Goujon, Juliette Cotte, Arthur Peyrottes, Gaelle Margue, Georges Mjaess, Stephan Levy, Pierre Luc Dequirez, William Berchiche, Guillaume Joussen, Alice Pitout, Vassili Anastay, Claire Deleuze, Benoit Mesnard, Denis Seguier, Fayek Taha, Kevin Kaulanjan

Open simple prostatectomy in the last three decades: results of a meta-analysis

Review

Renil S. Titus, Ansh Bhatia, Joao G. Porto, Khushi Shah, Diana M. Lopategui, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Robert Marcovich, Hemendra N. Shah

Efficacy analysis of tip-flexible suction access sheath during flexible ureteroscopic lithotripsy for unilateral upper urinary tract calculi

Research

Zhaoxin Ying, Hao Dong, Chao Li, Shuwei Zhang, Yin Chen, Minjie Chen, Yonghan Peng, Xiaofeng Gao

Is flexible and navigable suction ureteral access sheath (FANS-UAS) the next best development for retrograde intrarenal surgery in children? Results of a prospective multicentre study

Research

Vineet Gauhar, Yesica Quiroz Madarriaga, Bhaskar Somani, Rohit Joshi, Yiloren Tanidir, Daniele Castellani, Deepak Ragoori, Khi Yung Fong, Steffi Kar Kei Yuen, Anna Bujons Tur, Azimdjon N. Tursunkulov, Chandra Mohan Vaddi

Letter to the editor for the article “The impact of non-structured PSA testing on prostate cancer-specific mortality on New Zealand Māori men”

Correspondence

Melissa McLeod, Belinda Loring

Ideal cystoscopic interval after nephroureterectomy in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Research

Shuto Konta, Kohei Hashimoto, Tetsuya Shindo, Ko Kobayashi, Toshiaki Tanaka, Naoya Masumori

The role of re-transurethral resection of bladder tumor in patients with TaHG non muscle invasive bladder cancer

Research

Pietro Scilipoti, Marco Moschini, Mario de Angelis, Luca Afferi, Chiara Lonati, Mattia Longoni, Giovanni Tremolada, Paolo Zaurito, Alessandro Viti, Alfonso Santangelo, Renate Pichler, Andrea Necchi, Francesco Montorsi, Alberto Briganti, Andrea Mari, Wojciech Krajewski, Ekaterina Laukthina, Benjamin Pradere, Francesco Del Giudice, Laura Mertens, Andrea Gallioli, Francesco Soria, Paolo Gontero, Simone Albisinni, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Roberto Carando

The outcomes of robot-assisted surgery in the treatment of neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunctions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Review

Paolo Geretto, Sabrina De Cillis, Nadir I. Osman, Fabiana Cancrini, Mehmet Gokhan Culha, Steeve Doizi, Cyrille Guillot-Tantay, Francois Herve, Mikolaj Przydacz, Nicholas Raison, Antonio Tienza Fernandez, Manuela Tutolo, Luis Vale, Véronique Phé

Perioperative outcomes and trends of transurethral surgeries for benign prostatic hyperplasia in octogenarians: a comprehensive analysis using the NSQIP database (2011–2022)

Research

Ahmad Abdelaziz, Mukund Bhandari, Emad Eddin Dalla, Shaun Trecarten, Michael Liss, Ahmed M. Mansour

Current era HOLEP with MOSES 2.0 technology compared to the gold standard TURP

Research

Jamie Michael, Perry Xu, Nick Dean, Meera Ganesh, Kyle Tsai, Nabila Khondakar, Aidan Raikar, Amy Krambeck

Reply to Wei Qi’s letter to the editor about “Preoperative proteinuria correlates with renal function after partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma”

Correspondence

Michele Nicolazzini, Carlotta Palumbo, Francesca Porté, Gianmarco Bondonno, Paolo De Angelis, Maria Teresa Del Galdo, Alessandro Volpe

A systematic review on urolithiasis in children with neurological disorders

Review

Atinc Tozsin, Hakan Akdere, Selcuk Guven, Kamran Ahmed

Anticoagulation, photoselective vaporization of the prostate and safety : a propensity score-matched study

Research

Hugo Jacquey, François Kleinclauss, Loïc Balssa, Guillaume Guichard, Alexandre Frontczak

SWL for pediatric population

Editorial

Rasim Guzel, Kemal Sarica

Pressure reduction and suction characteristics of the new digital single use flexible ureteroscope with suction: an in-vitro experimental study

Research

Begoña Ballesta Martinez, Laurian Dragos, Vasileios Tatanis, Bhaskar Somani, Pedro Campillo Martinez, Oriol Angerri, Angelis Peteinaris, Arman Tsaturyan, Andres Kanashiro, Marina Garces Valverde, Manuel Christian Garcia Serrano, Javier Lopez Vivo, Sergio Fumero Arteaga, Evangelos Liatsikos, Panagiotis Kallidonis

Evaluating transurethral resection of the prostate over twenty years: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

Open Access
Review

Joao G. Porto, Ansh M. Bhatia, Abhishek Bhat, Maria Camila Suarez Arbelaez, Ruben Blachman-Braun, Khushi Shah, Ankur Malpani, Diana Lopategui, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Robert Marcovich, Hemendra N. Shah

Impact of the time interval between biopsy and radical prostatectomy on functional outcomes

Open Access
Research

Rosannis Brown, Burkhard Beyer, Sophie Knipper, Gisa Mehring, Lars Budäus, Pierre Tennstedt, Markus Graefen, Randi M. Pose

Correction: Role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced and clinically positive nodes Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma treated with Nephroureterectomy: real-world data from the ROBUUST 2.0 Registry

Correction

Risk factors for kidney cancer and socio-occupational category: significant impact of chlorinated solvents (UroCCR 111)

Open Access
Research

Matthieu Ferragu, Jean-Christophe Bernhard, Alexis Fontenil, Julien Guillotreau, Frédéric Panthier, Nicolas Branger, Olivier Belas, Jean-Jacques Patard, François Audenet, Louis Surlemont, Richard Mallet, Thibaut Waeckel, Pierre Bigot

RAM2: animal study for safety evaluation of the new artificial urinary sphincter uroactive on a castrated RAM model

Research

Juliette Cotte, Aurélien Beaugerie, Anne Denormandie, Florence Poinard, Caroline Plassais, Stéphanie Tran, Emmanuel Chartier-Kastler, Pierre Mozer

Does race and insurance status play a role in high-grade renal trauma in the pediatric population? - An analysis from the traumatic renal injury collaborative in kids (TRICK) consortium

Research

Albert S. Lee, Jacob W. Lucas, Vinaya P. Bhatia, Benjamin Abelson, Jeffrey L. Ellis, Dana A. Weiss, Christina Ho, Daniel Mecca, David M. Kitchens, Robert T. Russell, Md Sohel Rana, Douglass Clayton, Ming-Hsien Wang, Ching Man Carmen Tong

Can suction technology be a potential game changer that reshapes pediatric endourological interventions? Results from a scoping review

Review

Vineet Gauhar, Steffi Kar Kei Yuen, Olivier Traxer, Carlotta Nedbal, David Ka-Wai Leung, Ivan Ching Ho Ko, Nariman Gadzhiev, Bhaskar Somani, Daniele Castellani, Kemal Sarica

Active surveillance follow-up for prostate cancer: from guidelines to real-world clinical practice

Research

Giuseppe Chiarelli, Alex Stephens, Marco Finati, Giuseppe Ottone Cirulli, Shane Tinsley, Yuzhi Wang, Kaushik Kolanukuduru, Akshay Sood, Giuseppe Carrieri, Alberto Briganti, Francesco Montorsi, Giovanni Lughezzani, Nicolò Buffi, Craig Rogers, Firas Abdollah

Squamous cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract: clinical characteristics, treatment patterns, and survival outcomes in the National Cancer Database

Research

Christopher Connors, Olamide Omidele, Nir Tomer, Micah Levy, Reza Mehrazin, Ketan Badani, John P. Sfakianos

Long-term perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis after urethral reconstruction does not improve clinical outcomes and increases incidence of MDR organisms

Open Access
Research

Will P. Hoover, Jena Deitrick, James Furr

Impact of the uroperitoneum on the development of paralytic ileus: a preclinical study in the pig model

Research

Anastasios D. Asimakopoulos, Filippo Annino, Gaia Colalillo, Pierre Diemunsch, Camille Dupin, Gilles De Roudilhe, Thierry Piechaud

Quantifying treatment burden: the patient burden score a study of 758 patients across three clinical urologic scenarios

Open Access
Research

Ofer N. Gofrit, S. Nahum Goldberg, Amitay Lorber, Mordechai Duvdevani, Marc Wygoda, Guy Hidas, Vladimir Yutkin, Liat Appelbaum Pikarsky

Can the free/total psa ratio predict undetected intraductal carcinoma and cribriform pattern at biopsy?

Research

Rui M. Bernardino, Leyi B. Yin, Katherine Lajkosz, Jessica G. Cockburn, Marian S. Wettstein, Dixon Woon, David-Dan Nguyen, Rashid Sayyid, Ricardo Leão, Theodorus van der Kwast, Neil Fleshner

Correction: The infection post flexible UreteroreNoscopy (I-FUN) predictive model based on machine learning: a new clinical tool to assess the risk of sepsis post retrograde intrarenal surgery for kidney stone disease

Correction

Daniele Castellani, Virgilio De Stefano, Carlo Brocca, Giorgio Mazzon, Antonio Celia, Andrea Bosio, Claudia Gozzo, Eugenio Alessandria, Luigi Cormio, Runeel Ratnayake, Andrea Vismara Fugini, Tonino Morena, Yiloren Tanidir, Tarik Emre Sener, Simon Choong, Stefania Ferretti, Andrea Pescuma, Salvatore Micali, Nicola Pavan, Alchiede Simonato, Roberto Miano, Luca Orecchia, Giacomo Maria Pirola, Angelo Naselli, Esteban Emiliani, Pedro Hernandez‑Penalver, Michele Di Dio, Claudio Bisegna, Davide Campobasso, Emanuele Serafin, Alessandro Antonelli, Emanuele Rubilotta, Deepak Ragoori, Emanuele Balloni, Marina Paolanti, Vineet Gauhar, Andrea Benedetto Galosi

Association between cardiometabolic index and kidney stones in US diabetic patients: NHANES 2007–2018

Research

Heng Liu, Mixue Guo, Yu Zhou, Mingchu Jin, Haidong Hao, Yutang Yuan, Huqiang Dong, Hongtao Jia

Drugs to affect the smooth musculature of the human ureter - an update with integrated information from basic science to the use in medical expulsion therapy (MET)

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Petter Hedlund, Harrina E. Rahardjo, Dimitrios Tsikas, Markus A. Kuczyk, Stefan Ückert

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World Journal of Urology 1/2026
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World Journal of Urology 10/2023
Including the Topical Section: En bloc Resection of Bladder Tumors (ERBT) revisited 12 years after reintroduction: too good to be further ignored
World Journal of Urology 9/2023
World Journal of Urology 8/2023
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Ergebnisse einer Metaanalyse sprechen dafür, dass eine adjuvante präoperative Behandlung mit 5-Alpha-Reduktase-Inhibitoren bei Männern mit benigner Prostatahyperplasie zu einem geringeren Blutverlust während einer transurethralen Prostataresektion (TURP) beitragen kann.

AKT-Blocker verlängert PFS bei PTEN-defizientem mHSPC

12.01.2026
Prostatakarzinom
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Eine Zusatztherapie mit Capivasertib kann das radiologisch bestimmte progressionsfreie Überleben von Männern mit metastasiertem hormonsensitivem Prostatakarzinom deutlich verlängern. Im Vergleich zu Placebo wurde in einer Phase-3-Studie ein Vorteil von 7,5 Monaten erzielt.

Vorhaltepauschale: 2,50 Euro mehr pro Fall? Dafür lohnt es sich, einen Blick drauf zu werfen!

11.01.2026
EBM
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Einfach alles beim alten lassen, oder doch für die Vorhaltepauschale Abläufe ändern? Arzt und Praxisberater Dr. Georg Lübben erläutert im Interview, für wen es sich lohnen könnte, aktiv zu werden.

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