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The effect of hypogonadism and testosterone-enhancing therapy on alkaline phosphatase and bone mineral density Ali A. Dabaja, Campbell F. Bryson, Peter N. Schlegel and Darius A. Paduch   Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA   OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship of testosterone-enhancing therapy on alkaline phosphatase (AP) in relation to bone mineral density (BMD) in hypogonadal men. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective…

Testosterone Therapy and Cancer Risk Michael L. Eisenberg*†, Shufeng Li*‡, Paul Betts§, Danielle Herder¶, Dolores J. Lamb¶ and Larry I. Lipshultz¶   Departments of *Urology, †Obstetrics/Gynecology and ‡Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, §Cancer Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Texas Cancer Registry, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX, and ¶Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX,…

Indications for Intervention During Active Surveillance of Prostate Cancer: A Comparison of the Johns Hopkins and PRIAS Protocols Max Kates, Jeffrey J. Tosoian, Bruce J. Trock, Zhaoyong Feng, H. Ballentine Carter and Alan W. Partin James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA OBJECTIVE To analyse how patients enrolled in our biopsy based surveillance programme would fare under the Prostate Cancer Research International Active Surveillance…

Holmium Laser Enucleation and Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate for Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Chronic Urinary Retention Christopher D. Jaeger, Christopher R. Mitchell, Lance A. Mynderse and Amy E. Krambeck Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA OBJECTIVES To evaluate short-term outcomes of holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) and photoselective vaporisation of the prostate (PVP) in patients with benign…

Enzalutamide in European and North American men participating in the AFFIRM trial Axel S. Merseburger, Howard I. Scher†, Joaquim Bellmunt‡, Kurt Miller§, Peter F.A. Mulders¶, Arnulf Stenzl**, Cora N. Sternberg††, Karim Fizazi‡‡, Mohammad Hirmand§§, Billy Franks¶¶, Gabriel P. Haas¶¶, Johann de Bono*** and Ronald de Wit††† Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, §Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, **Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Tübingen,…

Cognitive skills assessment during robot-assisted surgery: separating the wheat from the chaff Khurshid A. Guru, Ehsan T. Esfahani†, Syed J. Raza, Rohit Bhat†, Katy Wang‡, Yana Hammond, Gregory Wilding‡, James O. Peabody§ and Ashirwad J. Chowriappa Department of Urology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY; †Brain Computer Interface Laboratory, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; ‡Department of Biostatistics, Roswell…

Robot-assisted retroperitoneal lymph node dissection: technique and initial case series of 18 patients Scott M. Cheney, Paul E. Andrews, Bradley C. Leibovich* and Erik P. Castle Mayo Clinic Arizona Department of Urology, Phoenix, AZ, and *Mayo Clinic Rochester Department of Urology, Rochester, MN, USA Abstract OBJECTIVE To evaluate outcomes of the first 18 patients treated with robot-assisted retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RA-RPLND) for non-seminomatous germ cell tumours…

Progression and treatment of incident lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) among men in the California Men's Health Study Lauren P. Wallner, Jeff M. Slezak*, Ronald K. Loo†, Virginia P. Quinn*, Stephen K. Van Den Eeden‡ and Steven J. Jacobsen* Department of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, *Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, †Department of Urology, Southern California Permanente Medical Group,…

Bimanual examination of the retrieved specimen and regional hypothermia during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a novel technique for reducing positive surgical margin and achieving pelvic cooling Wooju Jeong, Akshay Sood, Khurshid R. Ghani, Dan Pucheril, Jesse D. Sammon, Nilesh S. Gupta*, Mani Menon and James O. Peabody Vattikuti Urology Institute and *Department of Pathology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA OBJECTIVE To describe a novel method of achieving pelvic…