Urology

Robotic assistance for percutaneous needle insertion in the kidney: preclinical proof on a swine animal model.

BACKGROUND: We evaluated the accuracy, safety, and feasibility of a computed tomography (CT)-guided ...

Robotic versus hand-assisted laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy: comparison of two minimally invasive techniques in kidney transplantation.

Robot-assisted donor nephrectomy (RDN) is increasingly used due to its advantages such as its precis...

Continence definition and prognostic factors for early urinary continence recovery in posterior rhabdosphincter reconstruction after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. Post-hoc analysis of a randomised controlled trial.

INTRODUCTION: Urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy (RP) is an adverse event with high im...

The association between perineural invasion in mpMRI-targeted and/or systematic prostate biopsy and adverse pathological outcomes in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: This study aims to investigate the relationship between perineural inva...

Robot-Assisted Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen-Radioguided Surgery in Primary Diagnosed Prostate Cancer.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and feasibility of Tc-based prostate-specific...

Prediction of significant renal function decline after open, laparoscopic, and robotic partial nephrectomy: External validation of the Martini's nomogram on the RECORD2 project cohort.

OBJECTIVES: Martini et al. developed a nomogram to predict significant (>25%) renal function loss af...

Switching to a NRTI-free 2 drug regimen (2DR) -a sub-analysis of the 48 weeks DUALIS study on metabolic and renal changes.

Switching from a three-drug regimen (3DR: boosted darunavir [bDRV] and two nucleoside reverse trans...

Editorial Comment to Limited impact of erectile function on health-related quality of life in Japanese men undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Risk factors for postoperative ileus after robot-assisted radical cystectomy with intracorporeal urinary diversion.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the risk factors for postoperative ileus in patients who underwent robot-ass...

A deep learning system for prostate cancer diagnosis and grading in whole slide images of core needle biopsies.

Gleason grading, a risk stratification method for prostate cancer, is subjective and dependent on ex...

A novel convolutional neural network for kidney ultrasound images segmentation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Ultrasound imaging has been widely used in the screening of kidney disease...

The challenges facing deep learning-based catheter localization for ultrasound guided high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy.

BACKGROUND: Automated catheter localization for ultrasound guided high-dose-rate prostate brachyther...

The Predictive and Prognostic Value of Precystectomy Serum Gamma-Glutamyltransferase Levels in Patients With Invasive Bladder Cancer.

INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to elucidate the predictive and prognostic value of serum gam...

Comparison of Retzius-sparing versus standard robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: We aim to compare the first year oncological and functional outcomes of...

The ReIMAGINE prostate cancer risk study protocol: A prospective cohort study in men with a suspicion of prostate cancer who are referred onto an MRI-based diagnostic pathway with donation of tissue, blood and urine for biomarker analyses.

INTRODUCTION: The ReIMAGINE Consortium was conceived to develop risk-stratification models that migh...

Robotic-assisted Versus Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: 12-month Outcomes of the Multicentre Randomised Controlled LAP-01 Trial.

BACKGROUND: Recently, our LAP-01 trial demonstrated superiority of robotic-assisted laparoscopic rad...

Reply to Francesco Montorsi, Armando Stabile, Giorgio Gandaglia, and Alberto Briganti's Letter to the Editor re: K.R. Seetharam Bhat, Marcio Covas Moschovas, Marco Sandri, et al. Outcomes of Salvage Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy After Focal Ablation for Prostate Cancer in Comparison to Primary Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy: A Matched Analysis. Eur Urol Focus. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2021.10.005: Salvage Robotic Radical Prostatectomy for Recurrence After Focal Therapy-The Truth and Consequences.

Assessing the clinical performance of artificial intelligence software for prostate cancer detection on MRI.

Unsupervised learning of haptic material properties.

When touching the surface of an object, its spatial structure translates into a vibration on the ski...

Predicting Chronic Kidney Disease Using Hybrid Machine Learning Based on Apache Spark.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become a widespread disease among people. It is related to various ...

Retzius-sparing technique independently predicts early recovery of urinary continence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is the conventional surgical treatment option for locali...