Letter from the editor
Alan W Partin
page 1
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Informed consent for prostate-specific antigen testing
Peter H Gann
pages 5-6
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Informed consent for prostate-specific antigen-based screening
Otis W Brawley
pages 10-12
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Informed consent for prostate cancer screening—a call for equity in medical interventions
Ian M Thompson
pages 15-16
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Informed consent for prostate-specific antigen-based screening—European view
Kazuto Ito, Fritz H Schrder
pages 20-22
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Failure after radical prostatectomy
Endre Z Neulander, Mark S Soloway
pages 30-36
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Objective evidence of a high prevalence of renal damage in women with type 2 diabetes by technetium-99m DMSA renal cortex scan findings
Hsi-Chin Wu, Wen-Shen Huang, Cheng-Chieh Lin, Cheng-Chun Lee, Albert Kao
pages 50-54
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Editorial comment
John D Denstedt
page 59
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Is instillation of anesthetic gel necessary in flexible cystoscopic examination? A prospective randomized study
Takashi Kobayashi, Koji Nishizawa, Keiji Ogura
pages 65-68
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Editorial comment
Howard N Winfield
page 72
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Hand-assisted laparoscopy for large renal specimens: a multi-institutional study
Michael D Stifelman, Toby Handler, Alan M Nieder, Joseph Del Pizzo, Samir Taneja, R.Ernest Sosa, Steven J Shichman
pages 78-82
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Long-term experience with management of renal cell carcinoma involving the inferior vena cava
Nabil K Bissada, Hossam H Yakout, Aga Babanouri, Tarek Elsalamony, Wahib Fahmy, Moustafa Gunham, Gerald W Hull, Uzair B Chaudhary
pages 89-92
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Editorial comment
Stephen C Jacobs
pages 97-98
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Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy with suture repair of the pelvicaliceal system
Mihir M Desai, Inderbir S Gill, Jihad H Kaouk, Surena F Matin, Andrew C Novick
pages 99-104
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Sensitivity and specificity of commonly available bladder tumor markers versus cytology: results of a comprehensive literature review and meta-analyses
Yair Lotan, Claus G Roehrborn
pages 109-118
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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
Roger S Kirby, Claus Roehrborn, Peter Boyle, Georg Bartsch, Alain Jardin, Margaret M Cary, Michael Sweeney, Eric B Grossman, Predict Study Investigators
pages 119-126
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Influence of age, anthropometry, and hepatic and renal function on serum prostate-specific antigen levels in healthy middle-age men
J.a Hyeon Ku, Min Eui Kim, Nam Kyu Lee, Young H.o Park, Jae Ouk Ahn
pages 132-136
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Estimating survival benefit in castrate metastatic prostate cancer: decision making in proceeding to a definitive phase III trial
David Andrew Verbel, W.Kevin Kelly, Oren Smaletz, Kevin Regan, Tracy Curley, Glenn Heller, Howard I Scher
pages 142-144
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Effect of anatomic, procedural, and dosimetric variables on urinary retention after permanent iodine-125 prostate brachytherapy
Mohamed A Elshaikh, Kenneth Angermeier, James C Ulchaker, Eric A Klein, Mark A Chidel, Stephen Mahoney, D.Allan Wilkinson, Chandana A Reddy, Jay P Ciezki
pages 152-155
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Can total and transition zone volume of the prostate determine whether to perform a repeat biopsy?
M. Remzi, B. Djavan, R. Wammack, M. Momeni, C. Seitz, B. Erne, M. Dobrovits, S. Alavi, M. Marberger
pages 161-166
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Quality of life after a diagnosis of prostate cancer among men of lower socioeconomic status: results from the Veterans Affairs Cancer of the Prostate Outcomes Study
Amy K Siston, Sara J Knight, Nicholas P Slimack, Joan S Chmiel, Robert B Nadler, Thomas M Lyons, Timothy M Kuzel, Edgar M Moran, Roohollah Sharifi, Charles L Bennett
pages 172-178
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Nocturnal penile tumescence and effects of complete spinal cord injury: possible physiologic mechanisms
Donald D Suh, Claire C Yang, Diane E Clowers
pages 184-189
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Efficacy of sildenafil as adjuvant therapy to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in alleviating premature ejaculation
Juza Chen, Nicola J Mabjeesh, Haim Matzkin, Alexander Greenstein
pages 197-200
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Human sperm DNA integrity: correlation with sperm cytoplasmic droplets
Marc Anthony Fischer, Jennifer Willis, Armand Zini
pages 207-211
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Editorial comment
Ranjiv I Mathews
page 215
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Onlay island flap urethroplasty: a comparative analysis of primary versus reoperative cases
Levent Emir, Cankon Germiyanoglu, Demokan Erol
pages 216-219
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Histologic variants occupying a single prostatic tumor
Masahiro Yashi, Shinsuke Kurokawa, Akihiko Tokue
pages 220-221
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Penile and scrotal elephantiasis caused by indolent Chlamydia trachomatis infection
Ronald A Nelson, Gregory L Alberts, Lloyd E King
page 224
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Prone positioning for bulbar urethral reconstruction
Lynn W Blunt, Jonathan N Rubenstein, Merrill Matschke, Chris M Gonzalez
page 224
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Renal pseudoaneurysm after blunt renal trauma in a pediatric patient: management by angiographic embolization
S Halachmi, P Chait, J Hodapp, D.G Bgli, G.A McLorie, A.E Khoury, W Farhat
page 224
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