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Virtual reality: a novel approach to pain management during ESWL

4 March 2025 | Ivo Dukic | URO - Technology, URO - Endourology & Stones

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is a well-established treatment for kidney and ureteric stone disease, employing high-energy shock waves to fragment stones into smaller pieces for passage through the urinary tract. This article explores the application of virtual reality (VR)...

Robotic Urology Fellowship at UCLH

1 May 2016 | Imran Ahmad | URO - Core Urology

In November 2014, approaching my final year of training (ST7) in the West of Scotland (WoS) and just recently armed with my FRCS (Urol), I was at a crossroad in my clinical career. I was keen to pursue a consultant...

Assessment of the incidental adrenal lesion

1 September 2014 | Simon Greenwood, Jane Belfield | URO - Uroradiology, URO - Urologic Oncology

Introduction The adrenal glands are seen on CT or MRI surrounded by fat in the peri-renal space. The right adrenal gland lies medial to the right lobe of the liver, lateral to the right crus of the diaphragm and superior...

Testicular tumour imaging

1 January 2018 | Jane Belfield | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology

Testicular tumours are the most common tumour in young males with a peak incidence seen between 25 and 34 years [1]. The overall incidence is slowly increasing, although the exact reasons for this are uncertain, and there is a greater...

Suprapubic catheterisation – a core surgical trainee’s perspective

3 November 2022 | Nityanandan G, Konstantinos Dimitropoulos | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection

Suprapubic catheters (SPCs) are in widespread usage in medical practice and this review will focus on the pre-assessment, indications, methods and complications that are associated with the insertion of an SPC. Although suprapubic catheter insertions may be done electively or...

Introduction to prostate cryotherapy

1 May 2015 | Taimur Shah, Maneesh Ghei, Hashim U Ahmed (Prof), Manit Arya | URO - Urologic Oncology

Introduction Cryotherapy was first described by Dr James Arnott in 1850 where he used crushed ice and salt to get temperatures as low as -24oC, in the treatment of cervical and breast tumours [1]. The literature on prostatic cryotherapy dates...

Management of stage 1 non-seminomatous germ cell tumours

1 November 2014 | Karen De Souza, Alexandra Dudek, Simon Chowdhury | URO - Urologic Oncology

Testicular cancer (TC) is the most successfully treated solid tumour, achieving a cure rate of 90-95% [1-3]. Testicular cancer is relatively rare with an incidence of 2207 cases in the UK in 2014 [4] and yet is the most common...

Upper tract abnormalities

11 July 2023 | Basil Moss, Hannah Pendegast, Sakshi Rajain, Marcus Cumberbatch | 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...

The workplace environment and doctors’ health

1 July 2017 | Antony Garelick | URO - Core Urology

It is well established that doctors have higher levels of stress, depression and suicide than the general population [1] and most other professional groups. In addition they have high levels of ‘burnout’. Research indicates that although burnout is correlated with...

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