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Can PET/CT help in selecting treatment for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer more appropriately?
Radical cystectomy is one of the most drastic procedures that urological patients have to undergo with a five-year mortality of around 50% in those with organ-confined disease at presentation. Traditional imaging is with contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) but lymphadenectomy often...
Predicting resolution of the primary obstructed megaureter
Primary obstructive mega ureter (POM) is the congenital dilatation of the ureter in the absence of other structural urinary tract anomalies and comprises 10–20% of prenatal hydronephrosis cases. It is often detected during workup for prenatal hydronephrosis and confirmed using...Action Bladder Cancer UK offers grants for bladder cancer research
Action Bladder Cancer UK (ABC UK) is inviting applications for grants to support research into bladder cancer, encouraging projects that aim to improve bladder cancer care, treatment, or diagnosis.Action Bladder Cancer UK to open applications for bladder cancer research grants
Action Bladder Cancer UK (ABC UK) will open applications in November 2024 for its 2026 research funding programmes, supporting projects that improve the care, treatment, or diagnosis of bladder cancer. Grants are offered under two schemes. The Improving Outcomes for...Action Bladder Cancer UK offering grants for bladder cancer research
Action Bladder Cancer UK (ABC UK) is inviting applications for its 2026 research funding programmes, supporting projects that improve the care, treatment or diagnosis of bladder cancer. Grants are offered under two schemes. The Improving Outcomes for Patients Programme (IOPP)...Action Bladder Cancer UK offers nursing grants for projects supporting bladder cancer
Action Bladder Cancer UK (ABC UK) is inviting specialist urology and cancer nurses to apply for funding to deliver nurse-led projects that improve bladder cancer care, patient experience and treatment pathways. The ABC UK Nursing Grants Programme offers grants of...Radiological appearances of renal vascular anatomical variants
The purpose of this article is to explain and illustrate common renal vascular variants that can be depicted with imaging. Renal vessels commonly present a wide range of variations [1]; before major renal or vascular surgery is undertaken, accurate portrayal...Endoscopic management of upper tract urothelial carcinoma
Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is a rare disease accounting for 5-10% of all urothelial carcinomas and has an annual incidence in Western countries of 1-2 per 100,000 [1,2]. It occurs more commonly in the pelvicalyceal system as opposed to...Fournier’s gangrene
Introduction Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is a rare but fulminant form of infective necrotising fasciitis affecting the perineum and external genitalia, which can rapidly progress along fascial planes. It most commonly affects men, but can occur in women and children, with...Robots
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the BAUS Virtual Museum of the History of Urology which is part of the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last four articles I...Discovering urology during the foundation programme
My journey to finding urology as a chosen career was not linear. During medical school, I always enjoyed studying urological and renal pathologies. I was exposed to one week of urology placement during my fourth year ‘surgical block’, where I...
