British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) consensus document for the management of male genital emergencies - testicular trauma.

Male genital emergencies relating to the penis and scrotum are rare and require prompt investigation and surgical intervention. Clinicians are often unfamiliar with the management of these conditions and may not work in a specialist centre with on-site expertise in genitourethral surgery. A series of consensus statements have been developed by an expert consensus comprising British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Section of Andrology and Genitourethral Surgery together with experts from units throughout the UK.

British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) consensus document for the management of male genital emergencies - penile fracture.

Male genital emergencies relating to the penis and scrotum are rare and require prompt investigation and surgical intervention. Clinicians are often unfamiliar with the management of these conditions and may not work in a specialist centre with on-site expertise in genitourethral surgery. The aim of these consensus statements is to provide best practice guidance for urological surgeons based in the UK which are developed by an expert consensus.

BAUS consensus document for the management of male genital emergencies: priapism.

Male genital emergencies relating to the penis and scrotum are rare and require prompt investigation and surgical intervention. Clinicians are often unfamiliar with the management of these conditions and may not work in a specialist centre with on-site expertise in genitourethral surgery. A series of consensus statements have been developed by an expert consensus committee comprising members of the BAUS Section of Andrology and Genitourethral Surgery together with experts from urology units throughout the UK.

British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) consensus document for the management of male genital emergencies - penile amputation.

Male genital emergencies relating to the penis and scrotum are rare and require prompt investigation and surgical intervention. Clinicians are often unfamiliar with the management of these conditions and may not work in a specialist centre with on-site expertise in genitourethral surgery. A series of consensus statements have been developed by an expert consensus committee comprising members of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Section of Andrology and Genitourethral Surgery together with experts from urology units throughout the UK.

Experimentally induced testicular dysgenesis syndrome originates in the masculinization programming window.

The testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS) hypothesis, which proposes that common reproductive disorders of newborn and adult human males may have a common fetal origin, is largely untested. We tested this hypothesis using a rat model involving gestational exposure to dibutyl phthalate (DBP), which suppresses testosterone production by the fetal testis. We evaluated if induction of TDS via testosterone suppression is restricted to the "masculinization programming window" (MPW), as indicated by reduction in anogenital distance (AGD).

Glans resurfacing for the treatment of carcinoma in situ of the penis: surgical technique and outcomes.

Background: The management of carcinoma in situ (CIS) of the penis is controversial, with relatively high local recurrence rates after minimally invasive therapies.

Objective: Report the surgical technique and outcome of partial glans resurfacing (PGR) and total glans resurfacing (TGR) as primary treatment modalities for CIS of the glans penis.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Between 2001 to 2010, 25 patients with biopsy-proven CIS underwent TGR (n=10) or PGR (n=15), defined as <50% of the glans requiring resurfacing.

Long-term outcome of epididymectomy for the management of chronic epididymal pain.

Purpose: We evaluated the long-term outcomes of patients who underwent epididymectomy for the treatment of chronic epididymal pain.

Materials And Methods: All 72 patients who underwent epididymectomy at our institution between 1994 and 2007 were invited to participate in the study. Patients were mailed questionnaires covering various aspects of the treatment.

Laser-capture microdissection in prostate cancer research: establishment and validation of a powerful tool for the assessment of tumour-stroma interactions.

Objectives: To describe our experience with the optimization and validation of laser-capture microdissection (LCM) for biomarker analysis in prostate tissues. As LCM allows the separation of benign and malignant epithelial structures and stromal elements, it not only allows identification of the source of the biomarker, but might also accentuate gene or protein expression changes by reducing contamination by other cellular elements.

Materials And Methods: In all, 19 fresh-frozen prostate tissue samples were subjected to LCM, with the cDNA being analysed using quantitative polymerase chain reaction for several genes, to identify the optimum number of cells for capture, as well as gene markers assessing for the purity of the captured cells.