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What’s the diagnosis?

Test yourself against our experts with our weekly quiz. You can type your answers here if you want to compare with our answers, or just click the ‘submit’ button below. These images are from a patient who represented with haematuria following conservative management of a grade 4 renal injury.

Best of China 2014

Introduction Recent years have witnessed the boom of Chinese urology. An increasing amount of high-quality research is carried out in China, which is reflected in increasing numbers of articles being accepted by prestigious journals like BJUI. As the president of the Chinese Urological Association, I believe that it is necessary to select provocative articles – […]

Cumulative cancer length in selecting candidates for Active Surveillance: use or abuse?

Sir, Chen et al. [1] have performed an interesting evaluation on  cumulative cancer length on prostate needle biopsy (Bx) divided by the number of biopsy cores (CCL/core) in predicting outcomes after radical prostatectomy (RP) in candidates for Active Surveillance (AS). Criticisms against AS criteria could concern the relevant proportion of upstaging, upgrading or unfavourable cancer […]

What’s the diagnosis?

Test yourself against our experts with our weekly quiz. You can type your answers here if you want to compare with our answers, or just click the ‘submit’ button below. This diagram (modified from Hattori et al.) shows different phases of a multiparametric MRI scan of the prostate.

Video: Prognostic value of neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio in patients with UTUC

Validation of pretreatment neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic factor in a European cohort of patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma Orietta Dalpiaz, Georg C. Ehrlich, Sebastian Mannweiler*, Jessica M. Martín Hernández, Armin Gerger†, Tatjana Stojakovic‡, Karl Pummer, Richard Zigeuner, Martin Pichler† and Georg C. Hutterer Department of Urology, *Institute of Pathology, †Division of Oncology, Department […]

Article of the week: Free testosterone levels in PCa reclassification

Every week the Editor-in-Chief selects the 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 the […]

What’s the diagnosis?

Test yourself against our experts with our weekly quiz. You can type your answers here if you want to compare with our answers, or just click the ‘submit’ button below. Image from Autorino R. et al. BJU Int 2014; 113: 762–768. doi: 10.1111/bju.12455 The patient from the previous quiz is undergoing a procedure.

Re: New surgical technique for ventral penile curvature without circumcision

Sir,  While the dual concept of operating via an infrapubic incision and using a “double breasted” tunical repair technique for ventral penile curvature is interesting, Alei et al. make a number of statements which must be challenged [1]. We would concur that discussion and documentation of penile length is vital prior to surgery for penile […]

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