Functional Outcomes and Quality of Life in High-risk Prostate Cancer Patients Treated by Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy with or Without Adjuvant Treatments.

Background: Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) is used frequently to treat prostate cancer; yet, prospective data on the quality of life and functional outcomes are lacking.

Objective: To assess the quality of life and functional outcomes after radical prostatectomy in different risk groups with or without adjuvant treatments.

Design, Setting, And Participants: The Be-RALP database is a prospective multicentre database that covers 9235 RALP cases from 2009 until 2016.

Corrigendum to "RPN (Radius, Position of tumour, iNvasion of renal sinus) Classification and Nephrometry Scoring System: An Internationally Developed Clinical Classification To Describe the Surgical Difficulty for Renal Masses for Which Robotic Partial Nephrectomy Is Planned" [Eur. Urol. Open Sci. 54 (2023) 33-42].

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Robot-assisted Partial Nephrectomy Using Intra-arterial Renal Hypothermia for Highly Complex Endophytic or Hilar Tumors: Case Series and Description of Surgical Technique.

Background: In partial nephrectomy for highly complex tumors with expected long ischemia time, renal hypothermia can be used to minimize ischemic parenchymal damage.

Objective: To describe our case series, surgical technique, and early outcomes for robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) using intra-arterial cold perfusion through arteriotomy.

Design Setting And Participants: A retrospective analysis was conducted of ten patients with renal tumors (PADUA score 9-13) undergoing RAPN between March 2020 and March 2023 with intra-arterial cooling because of expected arterial clamping times longer than 25 min.

How-I-do-it: minimally invasive repair of ileal conduit parastomal hernias.

Background: Parastomal hernia after radical cystectomy and ileal conduit urinary diversion is an underestimated and undertreated condition with significant impact on quality of life. However, its surgical treatment is challenging and prone to complications and the optimal surgical treatment of this condition remains to be determined.

Methods: In this article, we describe our surgical techniques in the minimally invasive treatment of ileal conduit parastomal hernia and present our preliminary results.

Small cell carcinoma of the prostate after low-dose-rate brachytherapy: a case report.

Background: Small cell carcinoma of the prostate is a rare condition with important differences from prostatic adenocarcinoma in terms of clinical and prognostic characteristics. A low prostate-specific antigen and a symptomatic patient, including paraneoplastic symptoms, characterize small cell carcinoma of the prostate. Diagnosis is made on the basis of prostate biopsy, and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography is often used for staging because up to 60% of patients present with de novo metastatic disease.