Articles of the week

Every week, the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post. In addition to this post, there is an editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. Please use the comment buttons below to join the conversation. If you only have time to read one article this week, we…

Post‐prostatectomy urinary incontinence (UI) is a well‐recognised consequence of radical prostatectomy carried out as treatment for organ‐confined prostate cancer. This interesting article [1] reviews the in-practice surgical management of post‐prostatectomy UI in England over an 8‐year period, using the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) database. In total, 1414 patients had an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) implanted, with a median follow‐up of 3.55 years. In…

This work aims to validate, in an external cohort, three novel risk models, including the recently updated European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer risk calculator, that combine multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging and clinical variables to predict clinically significant prostate cancer.

Editorial: Magnetic resonance imaging as a personalised tool to safely avoid prostate biopsy

The purpose of this article is to review professional guidelines on the use of social media in urology, and outline best practice principles that urologists and other healthcare providers can reference when engaging in online networks.

The purpose of this article is to review professional guidelines on the use of social media in urology, and outline best practice principles that urologists and other healthcare providers can reference when engaging in online networks.

Visual abstract Guideline of guidelines: social media in urology