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Prevention of urethral stricture recurrence

1 September 2014 | | Functional Urology
Urethral stricture recurrence after urethral reconstruction is one of the most challenging problems in urology. With the increase in endoscopic surgery over the last three decades the incidence of urethral strictures has increased, with iatrogenic manipulation the leading aetiology in...

A guide to percutaneous nephrolithotomy

1 July 2019 | | Endourology and Stones
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is now the gold standard approach to treating large renal stones. Since its development in the 1970s, it has undergone a series of refinements that could only have been possible with the symbiosis of both radiological and...

A Core Trainee’s Guide to Preparing for a Career in Urology

1 March 2014 |
National Selection pits the best of the UK’s core surgical trainees (sorry – that includes EEC countries as well) against each other in a process that determines who is allowed to proceed into higher surgical training. For the successful, it...

Things in a place they should not be!

12 September 2023 | | Technological Developments
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 think we all have stories of objects inserted into the urethra and...

BAUS Annual Meeting 2021

21 June 2021 -23 June 2021
By Ms Sarika Nalagatla, Urology Speciality Registrar, University Hospital Monklands. The BAUS 76th Annual Meeting ran again in a superbly organised virtual format given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Running over three days with five parallel streams, the conference was packed...

Endourology Focus

Endourology Focus 2022 To skip directly to features, click the links below: Welcome from the editor- by Daron Smith Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy: a state-of-the-art technique in 2022- by Ibrahim Jour, Sarah Howles, Benjamin Turney Developments in flexible ureteroscopy- by Ben...

Urinary tract stones

9 March 2020 | Endourology and Stones
Case 1 What does this plain X-ray of kidneys, ureters and bladder (KUB) show? What, according to the 2009 The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, is the most appropriate first-line treatment? What factors do the NICE...

My detour – my year without a urology NTN and bouncing back

2 November 2023 |
When I saw the dreaded words “Oriel: Application not matched” pop-up on my phone my heart sank. This was my second attempt at a urology national training number (NTN), and I had put my life on hold whilst preparing for...

Seminal vesicle calculi

1 January 2016 | | Uroradiology
Epidemiology Seminal vesicle calculi are uncommon with just over 100 cases being reported in the literature, although the true incidence is likely to be higher [1-9]. Patients usually present aged between 30 and 45 years old and although the pathogenesis...

The Lester Eshleman Urology Workshop (Tanzania): a trainee’s perspective

1 May 2014 |
For many trainees a period abroad is increasingly an essential supplement to higher surgical training in the UK. However, for many, because of family responsibilities or financial imperatives, this is not always a viable option. There are however alternatives. Here...

An old resectoscope in a wooden case

1 January 2017 | | Technological Developments
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 last article I said I would write about a particular artefact...

Demanding cases or nightmares in endourology? Jan/Feb 2016

1 January 2016 | | Endourology and Stones
The second article in this series of challenging cases in endourology describes some stent-related problems. Case 1 A 76-year-old male with end stage renal failure due to obstructive uropathy from benign prostatic enlargement was transferred from a referring hospital. A...