Multiple analyses suggests texture features can indicate the presence of tumor in the prostate tissue.

Several studies have demonstrated statistical and texture analysis abilities to differentiate cancerous from healthy tissue in magnetic resonance imaging. This study developed a method based on texture analysis and machine learning to differentiate prostate findings. Forty-eight male patients with PI-RADS classification and subsequent radical prostatectomy histopathological analysis were used as gold standard.

Preliminary report of post-Ophira mini sling implantation voiding pattern: What to learn from pressure-flow studies?

Background: The study is amined to correlate the voiding pattern after successful mini sling Ophira implantation with postoperative symptoms and satisfaction, in addition to identifying obstructions.

Materials And Methods: From 2012 to 2015 in a single institution, all consecutive patients who had stress urinary incontinence treated by using the mini sling Ophira had a pre- and 12 months postoperative urodynamic test. The (ICIQ-UI-SF) and the (ICIQ-OAB) translated into Portuguese, were given.

Smoke load prognostic impact on bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) treated non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Purpose: Smoking habit is the major risk factor for bladder cancer (BC), related to about 50% of these tumors; however, the tobacco dose-effect impact on BC immune treatment is underexplored. This study evaluates the impact of smoke load on non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) prognosis after intravesical BCG.

Methods: Smoke load, recurrence, progression and disease-specific survival were evaluated in a retrospective study including NMIBC patients treated with intravesical BCG between 2006 and 2015.

[A study about hepatitis C virus infection in patients with psoriasis in a Brazilian reference center].

Introduction: Hepatitis C is the major cause of liver transplantation and hepatocellular carcinoma and shows a global prevalence of 3%. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is associated with extrahepatic manifestations (e.g.