Assessment of association between lower ureteric excision technique and oncological outcomes for upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma: retrospective analysis from the Scottish Renal Cancer Consortium.

Purpose: Nephroureterectomy(NU) remains the gold-standard surgical option for the management of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma(UTUC). Controversy exists regarding the optimal excision technique of the lower ureter. We sought to compare post-UTUC bladder tumour recurrence across the Scottish Renal Cancer Consortium(SRCC).

Preliminary validation of Thiel embalmed cadavers for laparoscopic radical nephrectomy.

Purpose: This study evaluated face, content, construct validity, and reliability of Thiel embalmed cadavers (TEC) as a training tool for transperitoneal laparoscopic nephrectomy (TLN).

Materials And Methods: The study participants were prospectively recruited through an advanced laparoscopic renal resection teaching skill course. The participants were grouped into: nonexperts (performed fewer than 50 TLNs) and experts (performed more than 50 TLNs).

Laparoscopic nephrectomy for adult polycystic kidney disease: safety, feasibility, and early outcomes.

Background And Purpose: Indications for laparoscopic renal surgery are increasing; however, benefits in adult polycystic kidney disease (APKD) remain uncertain. Our objective was to systematically synthesize the reported literature on safety, feasibility, complications, and early outcomes of laparoscopic nephrectomy in APKD to determine clinical benefits for surgical practice.

Methods: We conducted a meta-analysis of the published literature reporting on laparoscopic nephrectomy in APKD between 1991 and 2013.

Population-based linkage of health records to detect urological complications and hospitalisation following transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsies in men suspected of prostate cancer.

Background: Transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy is a common urological procedure with known complications. We determined the urological complication and 30-day hospital admission rate in a population-based cohort using unique identifier and deterministic methodology of record linkage.

Methods: 715 men who underwent a transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy in Tayside region of Scotland between April 2007 and September 2011 were identified from hospital records using their unique Community Health Index Number.

Pubic hair and sexuality: a review.

Introduction: Hair is a distinguishing feature of mammals, though the persistence of visible head, axillary, and pubic hair remains anthropologically unclear. Humans throughout the ages have modified their head and body hair, but aesthetic removal of pubic hair has become the "the ultimate barometer of how fashionable you really are" in the 21st century. The aim of the article is to examine the trends in pubic hair removal and its impact on health and sexuality.

Does surgery have a role in management of chronic intrascrotal pain?

Objectives: To assess the role of epididymectomy in the treatment of chronic postvasectomy and epididymal pain syndrome and to identify the factors that predict the outcome.

Methods: A total of 38 patients, aged 20 to 70 years (mean 45), who had undergone epididymectomy for intractable intrascrotal pain, were identified retrospectively from the pathology records. The clinical notes were reviewed, and details on patient demographics, previous vasectomy, investigations, and histologic features were collected and analyzed.

How to manage a urinary catheter balloon that will not deflate.

On occasion, difficulty will be encountered removing an indwelling urethral catheter. This may be as a consequence of failure of the catheter balloon to deflate. This article reviews the published data on managing the non-deflating Foley catheter balloon, and suggests an evidence-based sequence of interventions to deflate the catheter balloon.

Skeletal myopathy associated with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor therapy: potential benefit of coenzyme Q10 therapy.

Zidovudine (ZDV) has been associated with 'ragged-red' fibre myopathy, due to its effects on myocyte mitochondria. Usually this is reversible with cessation of ZDV. We report a 52-year-old man, who in 1985 developed ragged-red fibre myopathy 14 years after diagnosis of HIV infection while on effective ZDV-based combination antiretroviral therapy (ART).