Urology

[Addendum concerning: "A prospective trial comparing consecutive series of open retropubic and robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in a centre: Oncologic and functional outcomes" written by J.B. Beauval et al. [Prog. Urol. 25 (2015) 370-8] and F. Rozet [Prog. Urol. 25 (2015) 379-80]].

Re: Robot-assisted Versus Open Radical Prostatectomy: A Contemporary Analysis of an All-payer Discharge Database.

Protective effect of ginsenosides Rk3 and Rh4 on cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury and .

BACKGROUND: Nephrotoxicity is the major side effect in cisplatin chemotherapy. Previously, we report...

Prediction and detection models for acute kidney injury in hospitalized older adults.

BACKGROUND: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) occurs in at least 5 % of hospitalized patients and can result...

The diagnostic value of serum CEA, NSE and MMP-9 for on-small cell lung cancer.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. But no o...

National trends and differences in morbidity among surgical approaches for radical prostatectomy in Germany.

OBJECTIVE: In this study, we document trends in radical prostatectomy (RP) employment in Germany dur...

Tumor diameter accurately predicts perioperative outcomes in T1 renal cancer treated with robot-assisted partial nephrectomy.

PURPOSE: To compare diameter as a continuous variable with categorical R.E.N.A.L. nephrometry score ...

Comparison of Renal Function between Robot-Assisted and Open Partial Nephrectomy as Determined by Tc 99m-DTPA Renal Scintigraphy.

We compared postoperative renal function impairment between patients undergoing robot-assisted parti...

Clinical impact of prostate biopsy undergrading in an academic and community setting.

PURPOSE: To evaluate whether the rate of Gleason score (GS) upgrade on final pathology, the rate of ...

Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Total Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion: Comparative Analysis with Extracorporeal Urinary Diversion.

PURPOSE: To compare the perioperative outcomes, postoperative complications, and early oncologic out...

Prostate cancer: The applicability of textural analysis of MRI for grading.

Identification and individualized prediction of clinical phenotypes in bipolar disorders using neurocognitive data, neuroimaging scans and machine learning.

Diagnosis, clinical management and research of psychiatric disorders remain subjective - largely gui...

Intermediate-term cancer control outcomes in prostate cancer patients treated with robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: a multi-institutional analysis.

PURPOSE: Cancer control outcomes following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) for prostate ...

Unbiased estimation of biomarker panel performance when combining training and testing data in a group sequential design.

Motivated by an ongoing study to develop a screening test able to identify patients with undiagnosed...

Predicting Renal Failure Progression in Chronic Kidney Disease Using Integrated Intelligent Fuzzy Expert System.

BACKGROUND: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a covert disease. Accurate prediction of CKD progression...

Pyeloplasty in children: perioperative results and long-term outcomes of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery compared to open surgery.

BACKGROUND: A few studies have compared robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (RALP) with open p...

Recent Developments in the Use of Robotic Technology in Pediatric Urology.

Robotic surgery affords refined surgical movements that exceed the natural range of motion of the hu...

Serum phosphate as an additional marker for initiating hemodialysis in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease.

BACKGROUND: Reconsidering when to initiate renal replacement therapy (RRT) in patients with chronic ...

Accurate Segmentation of CT Male Pelvic Organs via Regression-Based Deformable Models and Multi-Task Random Forests.

Segmenting male pelvic organs from CT images is a prerequisite for prostate cancer radiotherapy. The...

Robot-assisted excision of seminal vesicle cyst associated with ipsilateral renal agenesis.

Seminal vesicle cysts (SVCs) associated with other genitourologic abnormalities are rare. Often asso...

A patient-specific EMG-driven neuromuscular model for the potential use of human-inspired gait rehabilitation robots.

A patient-specific electromyography (EMG)-driven neuromuscular model (PENm) is developed for the pot...