...Antonino Battaglia; Gaëtan Devos; Guy Boeckx; Lieven Goeman; Lorenzo Tosco; Gert de Meerleer; Steven Joniau Objective : To investigate the efficacy of a 6-month fermented soy supplement (equol-containing), measured by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) stabilization or PSA decrease from baseline (PSA...

...Thibault Meert; Evert Baten; Koenraad van Renterghem Objective: To investigate the relationship between the severity of histopathological prostatic inflammation with lower urinary tract symptoms and prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels. Methods: We prospectively included 222 consecutive patients...

...Sahil Gupta; Arjun Gupta; Ashish K. Saini; Kaustav Majumder; Kalpana Sinha; Anurag Chahal Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous malignancy in men. It is generally considered a cancer of the elderly, and the median age of presentation is 68 years. However 10% of new diagnoses in the USA...

... options for mild to severe complications. Medline searches of HSP and its urological manifestations were conducted along with searches on current diagnostic and treatment methods. Urological manifestations of HSP involve the kidney, ureter, bladder, prostate, scrotum, testicle, and penis. Diagnosis...

..., efficacy and patient tolerance of the Memokath prostatic stent (MPS). Material and Methods: A MPS was placed in 10 patients with OVS after brachytherapy. Evaluation included uroflowmetry, international prostate symptom score (IPSS), prostate volume and urethrocystoscopy before and 3 months after placement...

...Conrad V. Bishop; Heath Liddell; Joseph Ischia; Eldho Paul; Sree Appu; Mark Frydenberg; Trung Pham Objective: To compare the immediate postoperative outcomes of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia undergoing Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HOLEP) with and without full...

...Gwen M. Grimsby; Mark D. Tyson; Bernard Salevitz; Maxwell L. Smith; Erik P. Castle Introduction: Bladder outlet obstruction in younger men is often secondary to urethral stricture disease. In the older population it is often a result of benign prostatic hypertrophy. Materials and Methods: We...

...Seyed H. Yahyazadeh; Behrang Abadpour; Saadat Molanaei; Arsia Jamali Pure small cell carcinoma of the prostate (SCPCa) is a very rare condition usually with poor survival after diagnosis. It seems to show different clinical features compared to other prostate cancer subtypes, specifically...

...Ebru Erdal; Wasim Mahmalji; Zahoor Fazili; Howard P. Marsh; Shikohe Masood Transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy is widely used for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. Although considered a safe procedure it is associated with complications which can be hemorrhagic (hematuria, hematospermia...

... material revealed only benign prostatic tissue. This is the ninth reported case of ectopic tissue found outside the urinary tract and at a gross weight of 398 g, the largest so far described. The lesion was also of interest because of its strong positive prostate specific antigen. 8 03 2010 9 04...

... endothelial growth factor, basic fibroblast growth factor, angiogenin, keratinocyte growth factor (KGF), tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1), intercellular adhesion molecule-1, angiopoietin-2) in serum can be used as a noninvasive diagnostic test for prostate pathology in addition to use...

...Sumit Gokani; Ali Panah; Junaid Masood; Tamer El-Husseiny; Athanasios G. Papatsoris; Noor Buchholz Background: Patients with prostate cancer can often have simultaneous upper and lower urinary tract pathologies. If the patient is elderly and unfit for any major surgery, treat-ment options...

... prostatic biopsy phantom, using inexpensive and simple materials, is described. Features include tissue-equivalent reflectivity, the ability to implant targets for biopsy taking and reasonable shelf life of several weeks. Our phantom is an effective mean of training and skill acquisition for a one...

...Snezana Kusljic; Anupa Dey; Dan-Thanh T. Nguyen; Richard J. Lang; Betty Exintaris Objective: Prostatic interstitial cells (PIC) have been previously identified in the young guinea pig and human prostates and have been suggested to be a potential new therapeutic target for diseases of the prostate...