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Uroscopy

1 September 2017 | URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). You may feel somewhat distanced from the medical practitioners of mediaeval Florence but...

Early British pioneers of urological imaging

1 September 2019 | | URO - Uroradiology, URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In this article I am joined by Gavin Gordon of Newcastle University whose...

From body snatchers to conservative surgery: the life of Sir William Fergusson

7 January 2020 | | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). I’ve only recently paid full attention to Sir William Fergusson (1808-1877). He was...

Two blue pills

9 March 2020 | | URO - Andrology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). If I were to say to you, ‘The Blue Pill’ I suspect you...

Francisco Díaz (1527-1590), forefather of urology

4 March 2024 | | URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). We often talk about urology being the oldest surgical specialty and discuss the...

(Not very) clean intermittent self catheterisation

3 May 2024 | | URO - Technology
In a small room near the operating theatre of the London Hospital sometime in the 1880’s, a surgeon slips off his outdoor frock coat. From his pocket he pulls a silver curved catheter, spits on it and nonchalantly passes it...

Infections and inflammation: Part 1

1 November 2018 | URO - Infection
See also Part 2 and Part 3. Case 1 A 59-year-old man presented with right loin pain. His GP arranged for him to have an intravenous urogram (IVU) and subsequent CT urogram performed. What is the likely diagnosis? What are...

PREDICT Prostate – individualised, evidence-based estimates of survival and treatment benefit

5 November 2019 | | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
Earlier this year ‘PREDICT Prostate’ was launched online alongside a high-profile publication in PLOS Medicine. The prognostic model and decision-aid has been designed to inform treatment decision-making among men newly diagnosed with non-metastatic prostate cancer. David Thurtle and Vincent Gnanapragasam...

Adults are just big kids: a paediatric surgeon’s experience in adult urology

3 September 2024 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatrics, URO - Core Urology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Technology, URO - Uroradiology, URO - Urologic Oncology
As an ST8 trainee in paediatric general surgery and urology, I had firmly decided on subspecialisation in paediatric urology. Whilst preparing for the dreaded final Annual Review of Competency Progression (ARCP), the all-important question of “What next?” came to the...

The influences on Sir Henry Thompson

1 March 2019 | | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the second history column I wrote for Urology News, way back in...

Upper tract abnormalities

11 July 2023 | | URO - Paediatrics, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Case 1 Figure 1. A 26-year-old female presents to A&E with loin pain. What do the CT images in Figures 1 (left, centre and right) show? What is the prevalence of the congenital anomaly in the general population, and is...

Testicular microlithiasis

1 May 2015 | | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
Introduction Testicular microlithiasis (TML) was originally described in 1970 in a healthy four-year-old boy [1] and the first paper regarding microlithiasis as an entity seen on ultrasound was published in 1987 [2]. Testicular microlithiasis is seen on ultrasound as small,...