Bulbospongiosus Muscle Sparing Urethroplasty Versus Standard Urethroplasty: A Comparative Study.

Objective: To compare outcome of muscle and nerve-sparing bulbar urethroplasty with standard bulbar urethroplasty as regard ejaculatory dysfunction and postvoid dribbling.

Methods: This prospective randomized study included 50 patients with bulbar urethral stricture underwent urethroplasty over a period of 5 year. All patients were operated by ventral onlay buccal mucosal graft urethroplasty and randomly divided into 2 groups.

Outcome of α-blockers, with or without methylprednisolone combination, in medical expulsive therapy for lower ureteric stones: A prospective randomised study.

Objectives: To compare the safety and efficacy of tamsulosin, alfuzosin, and their combinations with methylprednisolone, in the medical management of lower ureteric stones.

Patients And Methods: Between September 2012 and June 2014, patients diagnosed with a single lower ureteric stone of ⩽10 mm (longest dimension) were enrolled. Patients with urinary tract infection, severe hydronephrosis, pregnancy, hypertension, diabetes, ulcer disease, or renal insufficiency were excluded.

Predictors of improvement in semen parameters after varicocelectomy for male subfertility: A prospective study.

Introduction: We aim to predict results of varicocelectomy on sperm density and progressive motility using preoperative clinical, laboratory and radiological data and to propose cut-off values for significant parameters.

Methods: This prospective study was carried out between July 2011 and June 2014. We included 123 patients in our study.

Safety and efficacy of using the stone cone and an entrapment and extraction device in ureteroscopic lithotripsy for ureteric stones.

Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of using a stone cone and an entrapment and extraction device (N-Trap®, Cook Urological, Bloomington, IN, USA) to avoid stone retropulsion during ureteroscopic lithotripsy for ureteric stones.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective comparative study included 436 patients treated with ureteroscopic lithotripsy for a single ureteric stone from February 2011 to January 2014. The diagnosis of a stone was confirmed by plain spiral computed tomography in all cases.

Definitive ureteroscopy and intracorporeal lithotripsy in treatment of ureteral calculi during pregnancy.

Objective: To evaluate the outcome of using semi-rigid ureteroscopy with or without intracorporeal pneumatic lithotripsy vs. temporary ureteric JJ stenting in the management of obstructing ureteric calculi in pregnant women.

Patients And Methods: This prospective comparative study comprised 43 pregnant women with obstructing ureteric calculi.

Adjuvant Pelvic Radiotherapy vs. Sequential Chemoradiotherapy for High-Risk Stage I-II Endometrial Carcinoma.

Objective: To explore if the addition of adjuvant chemotherapy with paclitaxel and carboplatin to radiotherapy confers an advantage for overall survival (OAS), and progression free survival (PFS); to assess the incidence of relapses over standard pelvic radiotherapy; and to evaluate the related toxicity in high-risk stage I-II endometrial carcinoma.

Methods: Medical records were reviewed to identify high-risk stage I-II endometrial carcinoma cases treated in the Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine department between 2002 and 2008 with adjuvant radiotherapy alone (arm I) (57 patients) or with sequential carboplatin (AUC5-6) and paclitaxel (135-175 mg/m(2)) with radiotherapy (arm II) (51 patients). Radiotherapy was performed through the four-field box technique at doses of 45-50 Gy (1.