The thermal effect is the most common effect of tissue–laser interaction in urology. With the widespread use of endoscopic instruments laser applications in urology have dramatically increased. Various urological conditions can nowadays be successfully treated with lasers. In the treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) and photoselective...

I salute The Canadian Journal of Urology for instituting their program of the “Legends in Urology.” I am in the process of retiring as Chair and Senior Associate Dean at UCLA, so my meanderings enclosed herein are put to pen at an appropriate time. I must say, however, that I really don’t feel that I am a Legend now, or that I ever will be, and am flattered to be included among the others who h...

Studying the Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine, provides noteworthy information on the subjects related to urology. Some examples of these amazing items have been confirmed by the modern urology: explaining the 2-stage function of the bladder (filling and emptying stages); indirect pointing to a scientific law, named later as the Laplace’s law, which is applicable to bladder physiology and explains ...

RESULTS: At this writing, all published papers on RRC are based on small number of patients with short-term followup. Nevertheless, they have demonstrated the technical feasibility of RRC with encouraging perioperative outcomes. Compared to open radical cystectomy (ORC), RRC appears to be associated with decreased blood loss, hospital stay and analgesic requirement. These advantages are also fo...

THE author joined the Civil Medical Service in the Sudan in 1908, four years after it was inaugurated, and served in the Sudan until 1930, and until 1951 he acted in London for the Sudan Government. He divides his history into the ten years before the First World War, the next twenty-five years covering the war and recovery and increasing responsibilities, and a period of fifteen years of expan...

Paul F. Austin,* Stuart B. Bauer, Wendy Bower, Janet Chase, Israel Franco, Piet Hoebeke, Søren Rittig, Johan Vande Walle, Alexander von Gontard, Anne Wright, Stephen S. Yang, and Tryggve Nev eus From the Division of Urology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Childrens Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri Department of Urology, Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachuset...

Peter J. Goebell, Susan Groshen, Bernd J. Schmitz-Dräger, Richard Sylvester, Manolis Kogevinas, Núria Malats, Guido Sauter, H. Barton Grossman, Colin P.N. Dinney, Fred Waldman, and Richard J. Cote Departments of Pathology and Urology and Preventive Medicine, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California; Department of ...

Biochemical control. Renal function is assessed from plasma creatinine and, ideally, a yearly isotopic measurement of glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Until the patient has stopped growing, GFR can be estimated using the Schwartz formula (height in cm x 40/creatinine mmol/l). GFR increases rapidly in the first two years of life to adult values, provided that it is adjusted for body surface are...

The TMA is a high-throughput technique to assess thousands of different cores of pathological tissue simultaneously using morphological and molecular analyses, e.g. immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization, whilst maintaining an accurate and efficient method of identifying each specific section. Using this technique an economy in cutting and staining can also be used, with an unprecedente...