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In conversation with Mr Duncan Summerton

1 November 2018 | URO - Core Urology
Urology News was delighted to recently have a chat with Duncan Summerton, Consultant Urological Surgeon in Leicester and new President of BAUS. Duncan with a native wild brown trout caught on a dry fly on the Derbyshire Wye. Can you...

In conversation with Jo Cresswell

17 May 2021 | | URO - Core Urology
We were delighted to catch up with Jo Cresswell, Vice-President of BAUS, about her career highlights and views on urology in general. Can you tell us a little bit about what led you into the field of urology and what...

In conversation with Ahmed Ali

12 May 2025 | URO - Core Urology
We were delighted to chat to Ahmed Ali about the journey to pursing a urological career in the UK and his decision to found the Arabic-British Urological Society. You grew up in Iraq and went to university in Baghdad; what...

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...

Artists in urology

1 July 2021 | | 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/museum). For July/August 2021, I’m joined by Lucy Brooks, Urology Trainee, who was keen...

Demanding cases or nightmares in uro-oncology? Sep/Oct 2021

3 September 2021 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Active surveillance for prostate cancer: missing the boat Case In 2005 a 43-year-old man of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity was referred to our centre for investigation of suspected prostate cancer. Digital rectal exam revealed a firm right lobe, PSA of 2.3ng/ml, prostate...

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...

Renal masses

2 March 2022 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Case 1 A 70-year-old female presented under the medical team with malaise, weight loss, and deranged liver function tests (LFTs) and calcium (ALP 350, GGT 650, Serum bilirubin 29, normal aminotransferases, Ca 3.3). An abdominal ultrasound scan (USS) was performed...

SMILE: sustaining medical education in a lockdown environment

3 February 2021 | | URO - Core Urology
2020 posed challenges to medical education like never seen before. In an effort to contain and slow the spread of coronavirus all UK medical schools ceased or reduced face-to-face contact. This sudden, and for many, unexpected change resulted in pressures...

Still Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) in urology: meeting the challenges presented by COVID-19

3 May 2022 |
Back in 2019, Simon Harrison – the then sole national lead for the urology workstream in the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme – wrote an article for Urology News on the GIRFT national report and how its recommendations...

Missed Meyer-Weigert duplex ureter during emergency ureteric stenting for ureteric stones

2 May 2025 | | URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Trauma & Emergency
The Meyer-Weigert rule is a fundamental anatomical principle in urology that describes the typical orientation of ureteral orifices in duplex kidneys. In a duplex system, the upper pole ureter usually inserts inferomedially, while the lower pole ureter inserts superolaterally. This...

Using cryopreserved prepubertal testis tissues – are we getting warmer?

12 September 2023 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology
The rising incidence of childhood cancer coupled with increasing survivorship means there is a growing population of childhood cancer survivors with unmet health needs. In the UK around 1 in 500 children and young people are survivors of childhood cancer....