Systematic Analysis of the Expression and Prognosis of Fcγ Receptors in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.

Background: Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) remains a common malignancy in the urinary system. Although dramatic progress was made in multimodal therapies, the improvement of its prognosis continues to be unsatisfactory. The antibody-binding crystallizable fragment (Fc) γ receptors (FcγRs) are expressed on the surface of leukocytes, to mediate antibody-induced cell-mediated anti-tumor responses when tumor-reactive antibodies are present.

Impact of tumour size on prognosis of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma after radical nephroureterectomy: a multi-institutional analysis of 795 cases.

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic impact of tumour size on survival outcomes in upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) treated with radical nephroureterectomy (RNU).

Patients And Methods: Data on 795 patients treated with RNU for UTUC from seven centres were retrospectively analysed with focus on tumour size. Clinicopathological features and relevant prognostic factors were compared between patients with tumours ≤3.

Circumcision with "no-flip Shang Ring" and "Dorsal Slit" methods for adult males: a single-centered, prospective, clinical study.

This paper was aimed to compare the clinical effectiveness and safety of adult male circumcision using the Shang Ring™ (SR) with the no-flip technique compared with Dorsal Slit (DS) surgical method. A single-centered, prospective study was conducted at the West China Hospital, where patients were circumcised using the no-flip SR (n = 408) or the DS (n = 94) procedure. The adverse events (AEs) and satisfaction were recorded for both groups, and ring-removal time and percentage of delayed removals were recorded for the SR group.

Effect of concomitant variant histology on the prognosis of patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma after radical nephroureterectomy.

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic effect of concomitant variant histology (CVH) on survival outcomes in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) after radical nephroureterectomy.

Materials And Methods: Data on 417 patients with UTUC treated with radical nephroureterectomy without preoperative adjuvant therapy were retrospectively reviewed with a focus on CVH. Clinicopathological features and prognostic factors were compared between patients with pure UTUC and patients with UTUC with CVH.

Acupuncture for overactive bladder in female adult: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating female adult with overactive bladder.

Materials And Methods: After we excluded other causes for storage symptoms, a total of 240 consecutive female patients with overactive bladder were enrolled and completed all aspects of this prospective randomized controlled trial, of which 118 cases were randomly assigned to receive a weekly acupuncture treatment (intervention group), while the other 122 cases were given a pharmacological treatment of oral tolterodine tartrate 2 mg twice daily (control group) for 4 weeks. Data on urgency, incontinence, micturition frequency, nocturia episodes and voided volume were collected and statistically analyzed before and after 4 weekly acupuncture treatments or 4 weeks' pharmacological treatment using a 3-day micturition diary.

Randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of bladder training before removing the indwelling urinary catheter in patients with acute urinary retention associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of bladder training before removing the indwelling urinary catheter in patients with acute urinary retention (AUR) associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Material And Methods: In total, 845 consecutive patients with their first episode of spontaneous AUR associated with BPH were enrolled in this prospective randomized controlled trial. They were randomly assigned to be given either pharmacological treatment combined with bladder training or pharmacological treatment (tamsulosin 0.

Clinical and urodynamic evaluation of women referred with diabetes mellitus.

Introduction And Hypothesis: We investigated the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) on female lower urinary tract dysfunction.

Methods: We prospectively collected data of 1,640 consecutive diabetic women from the inpatient departments and outpatient clinics of urology, endocrinology, geriatrics, and nephrology in primary, secondary, and tertiary referral hospitals, rural healthcare stations, and nursing homes in Dujiangyan, China. Clinical histories were taken on an individualized basis depending on patient presentation.

[Open stone surgery: is it justified in the era of minimally invasive therapies?].

Objective: To summarize the efficacy of open stone surgery for renal and ureteral calculi, and to investigate the current indications for upper urinary tract stones treated by open stone surgery.

Methods: To analyze retrospectively the cases with upper urinary tract calculi treated by open stone surgery from January 1995 to December 2004.

Results: In all, there were 667 patients treated for renal and ureteral calculi by open stone surgery, at the same time 9000 cases with upper urinary tract calculi also treated in our centre with open surgery rate 7.