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Paediatric urology: what you need to know for FRCS (Urol)

4 March 2025 | | URO - Paediatrics
Lianne Pickett, Urology ST5 at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), and Ms Neetu Kumar, Consultant Paediatric Urological Surgeon at GOSH, provide expert insights into the key aspects of paediatric urology. Curriculum Paediatric urology contributes one of the eight stations of...
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Managing staghorn calculi – a return to the dark ages of stone surgery with the aid of the robot

1 May 2014 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
Khurshid Ghani and colleagues present a novel, yet all too familiar, approach to the management of patients with staghorn calculi, in the form of anatrophic nephrolithotomy - however with the aid of a robot. The aim of this study is...
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YouTube for vaginal mesh information

1 September 2014 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Social media networks and websites are extensively used in healthcare. This interesting study examines information available on YouTube videos for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) repairs with mesh. Forty-nine videos were viewed. Sources were 69% legal firms, 24% medical institutions and...

Is outpatient robotic surgery feasible in children?

12 October 2022 | | URO - Paediatrics
Minimally invasive surgery has helped to achieve shorter hospitalisations, reduce postoperative pain and analgesia requirements and provides better cosmetic results. Robotic urological outpatient surgery has been examined in recent times in the adult population; here Neheman et al. look at...

Neurourology

4 September 2020 | | URO - Neurourology
Case 1 What are the urological indications for use of this medication? What is the mechanism of action when used in the bladder? What is the average duration of action? What are the contraindications to the use of this medication?...

Stone Pass: Kidney Stones app

7 July 2020 | | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Technology
For this Digital Review I have focused on the Stone Pass: Kidney Stones app (Know Stone LLC) – a new information tool for patients with ureteric stones. I had recently seen a shared tweet originating from the app’s author Dr...

Complications of CISC

1 July 2014 | | URO - Infection, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology
Introduction Clean intermittent self catheterisation (CISC) was first introduced and popularised by Lapides in 1972. Since then its utilisation has become widespread and it is now commonly used throughout the world as the preferred means of facilitating complete and effective...

Bladder Health UK

2 November 2023 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection
- CHARITY FOCUS - Bladder Health UK is a national patient support charity that has been communicating with bladder illness sufferers for 30 years. The charity offers a lot of resources to give help, educate and inform, including webinars, study...

Help to handle increased volumes of urethral catheterisations safely

22 April 2020 | Contracts & Distributors
With urethral catheterisation volumes currently considerably increased, we are pleased to be able to announce that NHS Supply Chain is now listing the...

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Urinary Tract Infections

15 May 2026 | Urology News
3 March 2026 / London Susannah La-Touche, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Clinical Director of Undergraduate Surgery. On 3 March 2026, via the echoing maze-like hallways of Westminster, a small group convened for the first Meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on...

Artificial penile pearls: what every Urologist should know!

1 July 2019 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection, URO - Trauma & Emergency
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...

Bridging the gap: the role of ASiT and BSoT in inspiring the next generation of urologists

4 September 2025 | | URO - Core Urology
Urology is a highly technical, rapidly evolving specialty and yet under-represented. At a time of significant innovation driven by advances in minimally invasive surgery, endourology and robotics, it is more important than ever to ensure a strong pipeline of motivated...