Clinical significance of adding 3 Tesla MRI to the algorithm for decision making on neurovascular bundle preservation in radical prostatectomy.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the additional benefit of 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging for neurovascular bundle preservation in radical prostatectomy.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated patients who underwent 3 T magnetic resonance imaging followed by radical prostatectomy from April 2010 through February 2014 in our university. A total of 50 patients (100 prostate sides) were included in the study.

Reconstructed animation from four-phase grip MRI of the wrist with ulnar-sided pain.

In order to visualize dynamic variations related to ulnar-sided wrist pain, animation was reconstructed from T2* coronal-sectioned magnetic resonance imaging in each of the four phases of grip motion for nine wrists in patients with ulnar pain. Eight of the nine wrists showed a positive ulnar variance of less than 2 mm. Ulnocarpal impaction and triangular fibrocartilage complex injury were assessed on the basis of animation and arthroscopy, respectively.

A role for preoperative systemic chemotherapy in node-positive upper tract urothelial carcinoma treated with radical nephroureterectomy.

Objective: There are few reports investigating the potential benefits of preoperative systemic chemotherapy for patients with node-positive upper tract urothelial carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of preoperative systemic chemotherapy on the clinical outcomes of patients with node-positive upper tract urothelial carcinoma treated by radical nephroureterectomy.

Methods: Data were collected on 195 consecutive patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma treated by radical nephroureterectomy between 1995 and 2010 at a single institute.