Despite technology incorporation to percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), residual stone fragments (RSF) may still persist after PCNL and need to be addressed to avoid re-growth or ureteral obstruction.
Introduction Kidney stone disease in the paediatric setting is rare but the incidence is rising. Mini PCNL (mPCNL) is one of the newer surgical interventions to have been developed in recent decades.
The rate of postoperative urinary retention (POUR) in laparoscopic inguinal hernia repairs is 1-22%. POUR may cause patient anxiety, discomfort, and increased hospital costs. Currently there is no standard prophylaxis for POUR.
Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) is performed to treat residual disease following chemotherapy for stage II and III testicular cancer. Significant morbidity can be associated with open RPLND.
Since the introduction of radiolabeled prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), the ability to visualize recurrent prostate cancer has improved substantially.
Multiple robotic-assisted surgeries are often performed within a single operating day; however, the impact of this practice on patient outcomes has not been examined. We aim to determine whether outcomes for robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) differed when performed sequentially.
Several studies have reported conflicting evidence on the inclusion of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) in the DICER1 tumor-predisposition phenotype. We evaluated the relationship between DICER1 and TGCT by reviewing scrotal ultrasounds of males with pathogenic germline variants in DICER1 and queried exome data from TGCT-affected men for DICER1 variants.
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are a mainstay treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). As not all patients benefit from ICIs, a biomarker-driven clinical decision-making strategy is desirable.
Although grading systems have been proposed for chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (ChRCC), including a three-tiered system by Paner et al (Paner GP, Amin MB, Alvarado-Cabrero I, et al. A novel tumor grading scheme for chromophobe renal cell carcinoma: prognostic utility and comparison with Fuhrman nuclear grade.
CD73-adenosine signaling in the tumor microenvironment is immunosuppressive and may be associated with aggressive renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We investigated the prognostic significance of CD73 protein expression in RCC leveraging nephrectomy samples.
