Introduction: When laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) was introduced as a novel treatment option for prostate cancer, it had to compete with the established open techniques. The short- and intermediate-term oncologic and functional outcomes were encouraging and comparable to those with retropubic radical prostatectomy. However, the long-term oncologic safety for LRP has yet to be fully elucidated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To analyze rates of expression of karyopherin alpha 2 (KPNA2) in different prostate tissues and to evaluate the prognostic properties for patients with primary prostate cancer.
Experimental Design: Tissue microarrays (TMA) contained 798 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded prostate tissue cores from two different institutes of pathology. TMAs were stained immunohistochemically for KPNA2 and NBS1.
Introduction: Well informed and educated patients ideally manage to prevent or delay the onset of severe chronic diseases. With respect to erectile dysfunction (ED) this is of importance because ED is considered to herald debilitating cardiovascular diseases like coronary artery disease.
Aim: This survey aimed to assess patient's knowledge about risk factors (RF) for ED and to identify their preferred source of information.
Background: The potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP) laser technique for photo-selective vaporisation of the prostate (PVP) has been regularly improved over the last decade. Nonetheless, decreasing efficiency of tissue vaporisation during the course of the operation and macroscopic alterations of the laser fibre's tip are regularly observed and seem to affect the outcome of this procedure.
Objective: To investigate the course of power output and to determine the type and extent of fibre deterioration during PVP.