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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 Sathianathen et al. BJUI 2014
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Vasectomy poll results
With the recent controversy linking vasectomy and high grade prostate cancer, should we now warn patients about this in the consent process? 1. Yes – 30% 2. No – 30% 3. Undecided – 39%
Article of the week: RP is safe in patients taking aspirin
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 […]
Video: Effect of peri-operative aspirin medication in open or robot-assisted RP
Open and robot-assisted radical retropubic prostatectomy in men receiving ongoing low-dose aspirin medication: revisiting an old paradigm? Sami-Ramzi Leyh-Bannurah, Jens Hansen, Hendrik Isbarn, Thomas Steuber, Pierre Tennstedt, Uwe Michl, Thorsten Schlomm*, Alexander Haese, Hans Heinzer, Hartwig Huland, Markus Graefen and Lars Budäus Martini Clinic, Prostate Cancer Center at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, and *Department of Urology, […]
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 – […]
Article of the week: Guideline of guidelines: prostate cancer screening
Every week the Editor-in-Chief selects the Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The introduction 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. If you only have […]
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.
Article of the Month: Neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio helps predict survival in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma
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 […]