Grower or shower? Predictors of change in penile length from the flaccid to erect state.

In colloquial English, a "grower" is a man whose phallus expands significantly in length from the flaccid  to the erect state; a "shower" is a man whose phallus does not demonstrate such expansion. We sought to investigate various factors that might predict a man being either a grower or a shower. A retrospective review of 274 patients who underwent penile duplex Doppler ultrasound (PDDU) for erectile dysfunction between 2011 and 2013 was performed.

Racial variation in prostate needle biopsy templates directed anterior to the peripheral zone.

Objectives: African Americans (AA) have been reported to have both increased incidence and increased aggressiveness of prostate cancer (PCa) located anterior to the peripheral zone (APZ). We sought to evaluate the utility of prostate biopsies directed toward the APZ in a predominantly AA cohort.

Methods And Materials: We reviewed all patients with PCa found on biopsy schema that included needle biopsies directed at both the peripheral zone (PZ) and APZ from 2010 to 2014.

Intralesional Injection of Interferon-α2b Improves Penile Curvature in Men with Peyronie's Disease Independent of Plaque Location.

Purpose: Collagenase clostridium histolyticum is the only FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved treatment for Peyronie's disease. However, to our knowledge collagenase clostridium histolyticum has not been studied in men with ventral plaques. Given this limitation and the paucity of literature on ventral plaque outcomes, we compared the results of Peyronie's disease treatment in men with different plaque locations treated with intralesional interferon-α2b.

Strategies for penile prosthesis placement in Peyronie's disease and corporal fibrosis.

Peyronie's disease (PD) is a wound healing disorder of the tunica albuginea of the penis. PD is generally categorized into two phases: the early acute inflammatory and late chronic fibrotic. Surgical reconstruction is only recommended during the latter established phase.

Feasibility of quantitative diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for targeted measurement of renal ischemia during laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

Reduction of warm ischemia time during partial nephrectomy (PN) is critical to minimizing ischemic damage and improving postoperative kidney function, while maintaining tumor resection efficacy. Recently, methods for localizing the effects of warm ischemia to the region of the tumor via selective clamping of higher-order segmental artery branches have been shown to have superior outcomes compared with clamping the main renal artery. However, artery identification can prolong operative time and increase the blood loss and reduce the positive effects of selective ischemia.