Surgeon's core values: legitimizing the team concept in surgery

Jason Park and Peter T Scardino

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0973 | Full Text | PDF (128K)

Can sentinel pelvic lymph node dissection replace extended pelvic lymph node dissection in patients with prostate cancer?

Günter Janetschek

Sentinel pelvic lymph node dissection is a radioisotope-guided technique that has been developed for the detection of potential lymph node metastases. In this Viewpoint, Professor Janetschek discusses the possibility that sentinel pelvic lymph node dissection could replace extended pelvic lymph node dissection in patients with prostate cancer.

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0942 | Full Text | PDF (157K)

Evidence for the usefulness of nomograms

Michael W Kattan and Peter T Scardino

In the October 2005 issue of Nature Clinical Practice Urology, Stapleton and Pinnock raised concerns regarding the use of nomograms in clinical practice. In this Viewpoint, the authors provide further discussion of these concerns, and present an argument advocating the use of nomograms.

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0968 | Full Text | PDF (159K)

Androgen withdrawal improves tumor hypoxia in prostate cancer

doi:10.1038/ncponc0948 | Full Text | PDF (100K)

Five-year experience of robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty at a single center

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0949 | Full Text | PDF (100K)

Increased high-grade prostate cancer and finasteride—sampling density bias?

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0950 | Full Text | PDF (111K)

Use of a vacuum erection device after radical prostatectomy prevents penile shortening

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0951 | Full Text | PDF (113K)

A shorter screening interval does not improve the detection of aggressive prostate cancer

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0952 | Full Text | PDF (103K)

-Blocker therapy improves sexual health in men with lower urinary tract symptoms

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0953 | Full Text | PDF (103K)

Tadalafil improves erectile dysfunction in young men with spinal cord injury

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0954 | Full Text | PDF (100K)

Prophylactic ciprofloxacin significantly reduces bacteriuria after diagnostic cystoscopy

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0955 | Full Text | PDF (100K)

Surgical penis enlargement: evaluating selection criteria and outcome measures

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0956 | Full Text | PDF (111K)

Warm ischemia time can be reduced safely during laparoscopic partial nephrectomy

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0957 | Full Text | PDF (102K)

Pediatric pyelonephritis can be treated exclusively by orally administered antibiotics

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0958 | Full Text | PDF (112K)

Patients with low-grade bladder tumors benefit from less-frequent, less-invasive follow-up

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0959 | Full Text | PDF (100K)

Renal core biopsies distinguish malignant tumors from benign masses

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0960 | Full Text | PDF (100K)

How should we define patients who are at high risk of death from prostate cancer?

Andrew Vickers

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0941 | Full Text | PDF (158K)

Should the pT2 tumor classification for renal cell carcinoma be subdivided according to tumor size?

Hein Van Poppel

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0939 | Full Text | PDF (161K)

What factors affect the PSA relapse-free survival times in patients treated with permanent seed brachytherapy?

Robert E Reiter and Stephen Riggs

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0965 | Full Text | PDF (161K)

Does more than one biopsy of the contralateral testis in men with a germ cell tumor add value?

Christina E Hoei-Hansen, Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts, Gedske Daugaard, Mikael Rorth, Niels Jorgensen and Niels E Skakkebaek

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0964 | Full Text | PDF (167K)

Does RPLND improve outcomes in men with intermediate-risk and high-risk germ cell tumors?

Daniel W Lin

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0966 | Full Text | PDF (163K)

Does tumor location affect renal function after partial nephrectomy?

Mihir M Desai

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0945 | Full Text | PDF (161K)

Management of renal stone disease in obese patients

Aleksandra Vujovic and Stephen Keoghane

Obesity can predispose people to developing a number of urological conditions. In this Review the authors discuss the diagnosis and management of stone disease in obese patients, highlighting some of the challenges endourologists face with this patient group. Risk factors for stone formation are also reviewed, including gastric restriction procedures.

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0988 | Full Text | PDF (247K)

Mechanisms of Disease: biomarkers and molecular targets from microarray gene expression studies in prostate cancer

Colin S Cooper, Colin Campbell and Sameer Jhavar

Current tests for the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer have limited sensitivity and specificity, and new biomarkers are being investigated. This Review discusses the use of molecular techniques for research into gene expression in prostate cancer and the biomarkers identified that could prove to be useful in the diagnosis and categorization of prostate cancer.

doi:10.1038/ncpuro0946 | Full Text | PDF (591K)