Current Issue January 2012, Vol. 79, No. 1

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Evidence-based Medicine for Polypropylene Mesh Use Compared With Native Tissue Vaginal Prolapse Repair
A review of the current medical literature for the use of polypropylene (PP) mesh for vaginally performed prolapse repair, including only those studies reporting prospective, randomized, controlled trials compared with native tissue repairs was undertaken.

Diabetes Treatment and Progression of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in Community-dwelling Black and White Men
The authors conduct a study to determine whether diabetes treatment is associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)/lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and progression in black and white men.

Risk Factors for Progressive Deterioration of Semen Quality in Patients With Varicocele
This study assesses the risk factors for progressive deterioration of semen quality (PDSQ) in adult patients with varicocele.

Clinical Impact of Residual Extraretroperitoneal Masses in Patients With Advanced Nonseminomatous Germ Cell Testicular Cancer
The authors review their institutional experience in patients undergoing resection of extraretroperitoneal (ERP) residual masses after chemotherapy to assess its impact on cancer progression and survival.

Undescended Testis in Inguinal Canal Detected Incidentally on Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT Imaging
16 January 2012
Pelin Ozcan Kara, Bugra Kaya, Gonca Kara Gedik, Oktay Sari, Erhan Varoglu
Abstract: The differential diagnosis at the inguinal region is very important for hypermetabolic foci because of the possibility of metastasis at this level in cancer patients ongoing PET imaging for ...
Unilateral Exophthalmos Revealing Metastatic Prostate Cancer
13 January 2012
Oussama El Yazami Adli, Jalal Eddine Elammari, Mohammed Jamal Elfassi, Moulay Hassan Farih
Prostate cancer, when metastatic, typically involves the axial skeleton. Sphenoidal metastasis is uncommon. We report a rare case of a 75-year-old man who presented with isolated unilateral exophthalm...
Müllerian Remnant Malignancy
13 January 2012
Adrien Phalen, Ardavan Akhavan, Simon J. Hall
Mixed gonadal dysgenesis is a disorder of sexual differentiation, characterized by mosaicism, ambiguous external genitalia, and both Wolffian and Müllerian internal genitalia. These patients are at a ...
Role of Spinal Cord in Regulating Mouse Kidney: A Virally Mediated Trans-synaptic Tracing Study
13 January 2012
Da-Wei Ye, Rong-Chun Li, Wei Wu, Cheng Liu, Dong Ni, Qing-Bo Huang, Xin Ma, Hong-Zhao Li, Hui Yang, Hong-Bing Xiang, Xu Zhang
Objective: To determine the spinal innervation and neuronal connections is important for studying renal metabolic responses. Materials and Methods: In this study, the spinal cords of 10 adult male C57...
Histologic Inflammatory Changes on the Prostatic Gland Due to Immunosuppression for Kidney Transplantation
13 January 2012
Affonso Celso Piovesan, Fabio Cesar Miranda Torricelli, Ioannis Michel Antonopoulos, Renato Falci Junior, Hideki Kanashiro, William Carlos Nahas
Objective: To determine the incidence of type IV prostatitis in patients with kidney transplantation receiving an immunosuppression regimen and to compare it with that of a nonimmunosuppressed control...

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The standardisation of terminology in lower urinary tract function: report from the standardisation sub-committee of the International Continence Society
January 2003 (Vol. 61 | No. 1 | Pages 37-49)
Paul Abrams, Linda Cardozo, Magnus Fall, Derek Griffiths, Peter Rosier, Ulf Ulmsten, Philip Van Kerrebroeck, Arne Victor, Alan Wein
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Efficacy and tolerability of doxazosin and finasteride, alone or in combination, in treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia: the Prospective European Doxazosin and Combination Therapy (PREDICT) trial
January 2003 (Vol. 61 | No. 1 | Pages 119-126)
Roger S Kirby, Claus Roehrborn, Peter Boyle, Georg Bartsch, Alain Jardin, Margaret M Cary, Michael Sweeney, Eric B Grossman, Predict Study Investigators
Management of priapism in the newborn
January 2003 (Vol. 61 | No. 1 | Page 224)
Boaz Meijer, Herman H.R Bakker
Radical Prostatectomy for High-risk Prostate Cancer Defined by Preoperative Criteria: Oncologic Follow-up in National Multicenter Study in 813 Patients and Assessment of Easy-to-use Prognostic Substratification
September 2011 (Vol. 78 | No. 3 | Pages 607-613)
Guillaume Ploussard, Alexandra Masson-Lecomte, Jean-Baptiste Beauval, Adil Ouzzane, Romain Bonniol, François Buge, Saad Fadli, Morgan Rouprêt, Xavier Rebillard, Nicolas Gaschignard, Christian Pfister, Arnauld Villers, Michel Soulié, Laurent Salomon, Prostate Cancer Committee of the French Association of Urology

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Prostatic Urethral Lift: Two-year Results After Treatment for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Secondary to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

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In the March 2011 issue, we introduce a new section, Health Outcomes Research, motivated by burgeoning interest and scientific work in this field. We welcome original work and commentaries in all areas of urologic practice for this section.

Basic and Translational Science articles are now published online only, with their abstracts published in the print version of Urology.

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New Investigation Supports Correlation Between XMRV and Prostate Cancer: Novel XMRV Retrovirus Diagnostic Test Developed (April 2010 issue)
Click here to read the related article: XMRV Infection in Patients With Prostate Cancer: Novel Serologic Assay and Correlation With PCR and FISH by Rebecca S. Arnold, et al.

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