Urology

Automatic Segmentation of Kidneys using Deep Learning for Total Kidney Volume Quantification in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common inherited disorder of the ki...

Clinical implementation of a knowledge based planning tool for prostate VMAT.

BACKGROUND: A knowledge based planning tool has been developed and implemented for prostate VMAT rad...

Label-free isolation of prostate circulating tumor cells using Vortex microfluidic technology.

There has been increased interest in utilizing non-invasive "liquid biopsies" to identify biomarkers...

Re: Vladimir Student Jr., Ales Vidlar, Michal Grepl, Igor Hartmann, Eva Buresova, Vladimir Student. Advanced Reconstruction of Vesicourethral Support (ARVUS) during Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy: One-year Functional Outcomes in a Two-group Randomised Controlled Trial. Eur Urol 2017;71:822-30: CoRPUS and ARVUS.

Lipid associated antioxidants: arylesterase and paraoxonase-1 in benign prostatic hyperplasia treatment-naïve patients.

BACKGROUND: Oxidative stress and antioxidants have been implicated in many diseases including prosta...

Sofosbuvir-based regimens for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in severe renal dysfunction.

Sofosbuvir (SOF) is a nonstructural 5B polymerase inhibitor with activity in all hepatitis C virus (...

Orthosiphon pallidus, a Potential Treatment for Patients with Breast Cancer.

OBJECTIVE: , which belongs to the family, is a popular garden plant that is widely used for the tre...

Assigning clinical codes with data-driven concept representation on Dutch clinical free text.

Clinical codes are used for public reporting purposes, are fundamental to determining public financi...

Machine learning-based analysis of MR radiomics can help to improve the diagnostic performance of PI-RADS v2 in clinically relevant prostate cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether machine learning-based analysis of MR radiomics can help improve t...

Effect of Silibinin on Maspin and ERα Gene Expression in MCF-7 Human Breast Cancer Cell Line.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: According to reports, a serine protease inhibitor (Maspin) suppresses meta...

Patients with small prostates and low-grade intravesical prostatic protrusion - A urodynamic evaluation.

OBJECTIVE: Despite high-grade intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP) being closely related to bladd...

Positive surgical margin in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: correlation with pathology findings and risk of biochemical recurrence.

BACKGROUND: To analyze the correlation of surgical margin status with other findings on final pathol...

Bladder cancer cell viability inhibition and apoptosis induction by baicalein through targeting the expression of anti-apoptotic genes.

The study was aimed to investigate the effect of baicalein, a flavonoid molecule isolated from the p...

Vector-model-supported approach in prostate plan optimization.

Lengthy time consumed in traditional manual plan optimization can limit the use of step-and-shoot in...

Incidence and risk factors of inguinal hernia after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has now become a gold standard approach in r...

Expert system classifier for adaptive radiation therapy in prostate cancer.

A classifier-based expert system was developed to compare delivered and planned radiation therapy in...

Extended versus standard pelvic lymphadenectomy during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: the role of extended template as an independent predictor of lymph node invasion with comparable morbidity burden.

BACKGROUND: To assess oncologic and surgical outcomes in patients subjected to standard (S) versus e...

Re: Robot-Assisted versus Open Radical Prostatectomy: A Contemporary Analysis of an All-Payer Discharge Database.

Screening of autism based on task-free fMRI using graph theoretical approach.

Studies on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have indicated several dysfunctions in the structure, and ...

A rare case of isolated castrate resistant bilateral testicular metastases in advanced prostate cancer.

Testicular metastasis is rare with the prostate being the most common site of primary cancer. We rep...

Expert System for Bone Scan Interpretation Improves Progression Assessment in Bone Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

INTRODUCTION: The bone scan index (BSI) was introduced as a quantitative tool for tumor involvement ...