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Volume 39, Issue 8

August 2021

Including the Topical Section: Active Surveillance of Renal Tumors

Issue Editors:

Laurence Klotz,
Umberto Capitanio

40 articles in this issue

Renal cancer: overdiagnosis and overtreatment
Giuseppe Rosiello
Alessandro Larcher
Umberto Capitanio
Editorial 12 August 2021 Pages: 2821 - 2823
Natural history of untreated kidney cancer
Kristen McAlpine
Antonio Finelli
Topic Paper 16 February 2021 Pages: 2825 - 2829
Comorbidity and frailty assessment in renal cell carcinoma patients
Jean Courcier
Alexandre De La Taille
Alexandre Ingels
Topic Paper 22 February 2021 Pages: 2831 - 2841
Frailty predicts outcome of partial nephrectomy and guides treatment decision towards active surveillance and tumor ablation
M. T. Walach
M. F. Wunderle
M. C. Kriegmair
Topic Paper Open access 30 January 2021 Pages: 2843 - 2851
Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging for active surveillance of small renal masses
Elena Bertelli
Alberto Palombella
Riccardo Campi
Topic Paper 22 January 2021 Pages: 2853 - 2860
Radiomics to better characterize small renal masses
Teele Kuusk
Joana B. Neves
Axel Bex
Topic Paper 26 January 2021 Pages: 2861 - 2868
Decision-making in active surveillance in kidney cancer: current trends and future urine and tissue markers
Sunil H. Patel
Nirmish Singla
Phillip M. Pierorazio
Topic Paper 09 August 2021 Pages: 2869 - 2874
Available active surveillance follow-up protocols for small renal mass: a systematic review
Giacomo Rebez
Nicola Pavan
M. Carmen Mir
Topic Paper 16 January 2021 Pages: 2875 - 2882
Evolving robotic surgery training and improving patient safety, with the integration of novel technologies
I-Hsuan Alan Chen
Ahmed Ghazi
Justin W. Collins
Invited Review Open access 06 November 2020 Pages: 2883 - 2893
Tea and coffee consumption and the risk of urinary stones—a systematic review of the epidemiological data
Yazeed Barghouthy
Mariela Corrales
Olivier Traxer
Invited Review 17 January 2021 Pages: 2895 - 2901
Laser procedures in the treatment of BPH: a bibliometric study
Anja C. Reichelt
Rodrigo Suarez-Ibarrola
Dominik S. Schöb
Original Article Open access 02 December 2020 Pages: 2903 - 2911
Impact of surgical wait times during summer months on the oncological outcomes following robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy: 10 years’ experience from a large Canadian academic center
Ahmed S. Zakaria
Félix Couture
Kevin C. Zorn
Original Article 27 October 2020 Pages: 2913 - 2919
Anastomosis quality score during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a new simple tool to maximize postoperative management
Francesco Porpiglia
Enrico Checcucci
Cristian Fiori
Original Article 03 January 2021 Pages: 2921 - 2928
Treatment of post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction: there is insufficient utilisation of care in German cancer survivors
Martin Baunacke
Maria-Luisa Schmidt
Johannes Huber
Original Article Open access 01 December 2020 Pages: 2929 - 2936
Whole-body MRI-based multivariate prediction model in the assessment of bone metastasis in prostate cancer
Rui Chen
Qingsong Yang
Jianping Lu
Original Article 01 February 2021 Pages: 2937 - 2943
PSA and obesity among men with localized prostate cancer: results of the ANDROCAN study
Matthias E. Meunier
Yann Neuzillet
Henry Botto
Original Article 01 February 2021 Pages: 2945 - 2951
Retrospective German claims data study on initial treatment of bladder carcinoma (BCa) by transurethral bladder resection (TURB): a comparative analysis of costs using standard white light- (WL-) vs. blue light- (BL-) TURB
Tilman Todenhöfer
Moritz Maas
Arnulf Stenzl
Original Article Open access 10 February 2021 Pages: 2953 - 2960
Parenchymal biopsy in the management of patients with renal cancer
Umberto Capitanio
Alessandro Larcher
Francesco Montorsi
Original Article 01 January 2021 Pages: 2961 - 2968
Clinical, surgical, pathological and follow-up features of kidney cancer patients with Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome: novel insights from a large consortium
Umberto Capitanio
Giuseppe Rosiello
The Kidney Cancer Working Group of the Young Academic Urologists (YAU) Working Party of the European Association of Urology (EAU)
Original Article 08 January 2021 Pages: 2969 - 2975
Predictive value of De Ritis ratio in metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with tyrosine-kinase inhibitors
Florian Janisch
Thomas Klotzbücher
Michael Rink
Original Article Open access 01 March 2021 Pages: 2977 - 2985
Association between chronic kidney disease and COVID-19-related mortality in New York
Nihal E. Mohamed
Emma K. T. Benn
Ketan K. Badani
Original Article 22 January 2021 Pages: 2987 - 2993
Incidence, risk factors, and outcome of Clostridioides difficile infection following urological surgeries
Kevin A. Nguyen
Danny Q. Le
Michael S. Leapman
Original Article 20 January 2021 Pages: 2995 - 3003
A randomized controlled trial comparing high and medium power settings for holmium laser enucleation of prostate
Hemendra N. Shah
Mohamed H. Etafy
Rashmi H. Shah
Original Article 04 January 2021 Pages: 3005 - 3011
Combined top-down approach with low-power thulium laser enucleation of prostate: evaluation of one-year functional outcomes
Mohamed Omar
Amr Hodhod
Manoj Monga
Original Article 02 January 2021 Pages: 3013 - 3017
Initial single centre experience of Aquablation of the prostate using the AquaBeam system with athermal haemostasis for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia: 1-year outcomes
Danielle Whiting
Keng Lim Ng
Neil Barber
Original Article 03 January 2021 Pages: 3019 - 3024
Photoselective sharp enucleation of the prostate with a front-firing 532-nm laser: an innovative surgical technique for benign prostatic hyperplasia—a single-center study of 475 cases
Yongquan Wang
Zhengchao Liu
Wenhao Shen
Original Article 03 January 2021 Pages: 3025 - 3033
The effect of β₃-adrenoceptor gene polymorphisms on lower urinary tract function in males
Nobuhiro Haga
Yu Okabe
Yoshiyuki Kojima
Original Article 05 January 2021 Pages: 3035 - 3040
Rezum therapy for patients with large prostates (≥ 80 g): initial clinical experience and postoperative outcomes
Evan B. Garden
Devki Shukla
Michael A. Palese
Original Article 03 January 2021 Pages: 3041 - 3048
B3 agonists or anticholinergics in the treatment of the lower urinary tract dysfunction in patients with multiple sclerosis?—A randomized study
I. Glykas
Ch Fragkoulis
A. Dellis
Original Article 02 January 2021 Pages: 3049 - 3056
Outcomes of laparoscopic artificial urinary sphincter in women with stress urinary incontinence: mid-term evaluation
Alice Schroeder
Pierre Munier
Thibault Tricard
Original Article 02 January 2021 Pages: 3057 - 3062
Single-surgeon experience of excision and primary anastomosis for bulbar urethral stricture: analysis of surgical and patient-reported outcomes
Akio Horiguchi
Kenichiro Ojima
Ryuichi Azuma
Original Article 03 January 2021 Pages: 3063 - 3069
Evaluating outcomes of complete supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy for staghorn vs multiple non-staghorn renal stones: a 10-year study
Reza Falahatkar
Tamkin Shahraki
Parham Mashouf
Original Article 05 January 2021 Pages: 3071 - 3077
Adherence to guidelines in the management of urolithiasis: are there differences among distinct patient care settings?
Lennert Eismann
Alexander Kretschmer
Frank Strittmatter
Original Article 02 January 2021 Pages: 3079 - 3087
Value of early second session shock wave lithotripsy in treatment of upper ureteric stones compared to laser ureteroscopy
Ahmed M. Abdelbary
Ahmad A. Al-Dessoukey
Rabie M. Ibrahim
Original Article 20 January 2021 Pages: 3089 - 3093
Risk of UTI in kidney stone formers: a matched-cohort study over a median follow-up of 19 years
Eleanor Brain
Robert M. Geraghty
Bhaskar Somani
Original Article Open access 05 January 2021 Pages: 3095 - 3101
Endoscopic surgical simulation using low-fidelity and virtual reality transurethral resection simulators in urology simulation boot camp course: trainees feedback assessment study
Christopher Berridge
Mithun Kailavasan
Ghulam Nabi
Original Article 04 January 2021 Pages: 3103 - 3107
Implementing telemedicine for the management of benign urologic conditions: a single centre experience in Italy
Enrico Checcucci
Stefano De Luca
The Uro-technology and SoMe Working Group of the Young Academic Urologists Working Party of the European Association of Urology
Original Article 01 January 2021 Pages: 3109 - 3115
Reply letter to: Breda, A., Territo, A. & Sanguedolce, F. Combination of holmium and thulium laser ablation in upper tract urothelial carcinoma. World J Urol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-020-03124-z
Lorenzo Defidio
Michele Antonucci
Anup Patel
Letter to the Editor 29 May 2020 Pages: 3117 - 3118
Comment on “Safety and efficacy of bipolar versus monopolar transurethral resection of bladder tumor: a systematic review and meta-analysis”
Gopal Sharma
Aditya Prakash Sharma
Letter to the Editor 05 June 2020 Pages: 3119 - 3120
Androgenic hormones and the excess male mortality observed in COVID-19 patients: new convergent data
Pierre-Jean Lamy
Xavier Rébillard
Alexandre de la Taille
Letter to the Editor 02 June 2020 Pages: 3121 - 3123