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Artificial penile pearls: what every Urologist should know!
Penile implants are inert objects placed beneath the skin of the penis through an incision. These are variously referred to as Yakuza beads, pearls, ball bearings, speed bumps, penile marbles, inserts, etc. The term ‘penile implant’ described here should not...Mermaid Medical UK, the UK distributor of CIVCO now the service and maintenance solution for all AccuCARE equipment
• Supply of steppers and stabilisers for all ultrasound machines • Training • Loan equipment to prevent downtime • Service and maintenance • DisposablesMalcolm Coptcoat Prize - The Urology Foundation: patient experience in urology
Why attend? Hear from the Medical Director of Health in Justice, on prison medicine and caring for under-represented groups Explore six shortlisted innovation and transformation projects that have improved patient experience in urology Learn how successful initiatives were developed, implemented...RSM: Winter Short Papers – Unlocking Better Outcomes Through Quality Improvement
Join the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Urology Section for this evening's webinar featuring the Winter Short Papers competition. Participants will hear the six highest-scoring resident doctor presentations on quality improvement and service transformation in urology, followed by a keynote lecture on the latest advances in renal transplantation.
Are urodynamics still useful?
Two major UK randomised controlled trials, UPSTREAM and FUTURE, compared comprehensive clinical assessment (CCA) alone with CCA plus urodynamics (UDS), incorporating filling cystometry and pressure–flow studies. Both trials involved patients in whom diagnostic uncertainty suggested a potential role for UDS...
Worldwide flexible ureteroscopy practice uncovered
While guidelines recommend flexible ureteroscopy (fURS) for treating renal stones <1.5cm, considerable differences exist among urologists in the technique, use, and indications of fURS. In 2014, the Endourology Society set out to explore the differences in the fURS technique and...Indeterminate renal lesions – a pragmatic imaging approach
The incidence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in the UK has increased steadily over the last two decades, largely driven by the increasing use of abdominal imaging and the incidental detection of small renal lesions [1]. The majority of incidental...
The potential of statin use in castrate resistant prostate cancer treatment
One of the mechanisms by which prostate cancer achieves castrate resistance is through de novo intratumoral production of androgens. Reactivation of androgen receptors results in promotion of cell survival and proliferation pathways despite castrate serum testosterone levels. As androgen synthesis...Focal therapies in prostate cancer
The standard of care in the management of prostate cancer has, to date, always been to treat the whole gland. This has ranged from surveillance, surgical excision / prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy / whole gland brachytherapy. With the evolution...Use of MRI in the evaluation of prostate cancer: part 1
Introduction Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in males and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in UK men, after lung cancer [1]. The incidence of prostate cancer in the UK has shown a rapid increase...
Outcomes of preserving the foreskin during distal hypospadias
Hypospadias surgery continues to tax the minds of paediatric urologists. Increasingly distal hypospadias surgery is becoming more and more conservative (in some cases, carrying out only foreskin reconstruction and leaving a mild hypospadias) and the role of foreskin reconstruction as...
