Société Internationale d’Urologie Journal, Volume 2, Issue 4

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has delayed screening, diagnostic workup, and treatment in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. Our purpose was to review PCa screening, diagnostic workup, active surveillance (AS), radical prostatectomy (RP...

Metallic ureteric stents are increasingly used for the management of malignant ureteric obstruction, a commonly encountered complication in urological and other malignancies. However, there has been limited evaluation of complications associated with...

The inspection of the urethra in patients with documented or suspected urethral stricture should be carried out with small caliber ureteroscope of 6/7.5Ch. Different from flexible cystoscope (16Ch) or resectoscope (26Ch), small caliber ureteroscope a...

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) is a rare but severe form of inflammatory renal disease associated with renal stones and results in granulomatous tissue invading and destroying normal parenchyma [...]

Dr. Angela Smith (United States) presented five practice-changing advances on the horizon across the disease spectrum of BCa and upper tract UC (UTUC) [...]

The first presentation was led by Dr. Jason Abel (United States) [...]

The first talk was led by Dr. Alexander Wyatt, who presented the state of the art of liquid biopsy in urologic oncology [...]

The two faces of open access remain a point of contention in the global world of scientific publishing, and this carries over into the microcosm of urologic publishing. [...]

Objective: To compare the perioperative morbidity of robotic-assisted simple prostatectomy (RASP), anatomical endoscopic enucleation of the prostate (AEEP) and open simple prostatectomy (OSP) for the treatment of benign prostatic obstruction (BPO). M...

Objective: To report etiological and therapeutic features of vesicouterine fistulas (VUF) in Burkina Faso. Patients and Methods: We performed a retrospective, descriptive, and multicentric study based on the medical records of women treated for VUF f...

Background: Adult primary retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPSs) are a group of heterogeneous tumors with different histological subtypes. Comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) analyses have recently provided significant insights into the biology of sarcoma...

Objective: To define predictors for initial retrograde ureteral stenting (RUS) failure with the need for the percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN) insertion as a drainage method in patients with complicated acute calculus obstructive uropathy. Methods: We u...