Videos

Ultra-mini percutaneous nephrolithotomy (UMP): one more armamentarium Janak Desai and Ronak Solanki Department of Urology, Samved Hospital, Ahmedabad, India OBJECTIVE • To describe our newly developed technique for the removal of renal stones, which we have called ultra-mini percutaneous nephrolithotomy (UMP). METHODS • UMP was performed in 62 patients using a 3.5-F ultra-thin telescope and specially designed inner and outer sheaths. A standard puncture was made and the tract…

Prospective evaluation of urinary incontinence, voiding symptoms and quality of life after open and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy Inge Geraerts*, Hendrik Van Poppel†, Nele Devoogdt*‡, Ben Van Cleynenbreugel†, Steven Joniau† and Marijke Van Kampen*‡ Departments of *Rehabilitation Science, †Urology and ‡Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium OBJECTIVE • To compare functional outcomes, i.e. urinary incontinence (UI), voiding symptoms and…

Comparative assessment of three standardized robotic surgery training methods Andrew J. Hung, Isuru S. Jayaratna, Kara Teruya, Mihir M. Desai, Inderbir S. Gill and Alvin C. Goh* USC Institute of Urology, Hillard and Roclyn Herzog Center for Robotic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and *Department of Urology, Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA OBJECTIVES • To evaluate…

Roger Kirby*, Ben Challacombe*†, Simon Hughes*†, Simon Chowdhury*† and Prokar Dasgupta*† *The Prostate Centre, London W1 and †Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, London, UK Published as a comment article in BJU International 2013; 112: 715–716. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11787.x Video Commentary by Roger Kirby, BJUI Associate Editor.

Impact of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) on management of patients with carcinoma invading bladder muscle Laura S. Mertens, Annemarie Fioole-Bruining*, Erik Vegt†, Wouter V. Vogel†, Bas W. van Rhijn and Simon Horenblas Departments of Urology, *Radiology and †Nuclear Medicine, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands OBJECTIVE • To evaluate the clinical impact of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose…

Endometrial stem cell differentiation into smooth muscle cell: a novel approach for bladder tissue engineering in women Alireza Shoae-Hassani*, Shiva Sharif, Alexander M. Seifalian†, Seyed Abdolreza Mortazavi-Tabatabaei‡, Sassan Rezaie§ and Javad Verdi Departments of Applied Cell Sciences and §Medical Biotechnology, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, and *Department of Stem cell and Tissue Engineering, Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine (RCSTiM), Tehran…

Outcomes of transperineal template-guided prostate biopsy in 409 patients James L. Symons*†, Andrew Huo*, Carlo L. Yuen‡§, Anne-Maree Haynes*, Jayne Matthews†, Robert L. Sutherland*, Phillip Brenner‡§ and Phillip D. Stricker†‡§ *Cancer Research Programme, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, †St Vincent's Prostate Cancer Centre, ‡Department of Urology, St. Vincent's Hospital, and §Department of Urology, St. Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia OBJECTIVE •…

Laparoendoscopic single-site nephroureterectomy for upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma: outcomes of an international multi-institutional study of 101 patients Sung Yul Park, Koon Ho Rha1, Riccardo Autorino2, Ithaar Derweesh3, Evangelos Liastikos4, Yao Chou Tsai5, Ill Young Seo6, Ugo Nagele7, Aly M. Abdel-Karim8, Thomas Herrmann9, Deok Hyun Han10, Soroush Rais-Bahrami11, Seung Wook Lee, Kyu Shik Kim, Paolo Fornara12, Panagiotis Kallidonis4, Christopher Springer12, Salah Élsalmy8, Shih-Chieh…

Regulatory T cells, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), CXCL10, CXCL11, epidermal growth factor (EGF) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) as surrogate markers of host immunity in patients with renal cell carcinoma Marianeve Polimeno, Maria Napolitano, Susan Costantini*, Luigi Portella, Arianna Esposito, Francesca Capone*, Eliana Guerriero*, AnnaMaria Trotta, Serena Zanotta, Luigi Pucci†, Nicola Longo†, Sisto Perdonà‡, Sandro Pignata‡, Giuseppe Castello*…