Category: Volume 44 Number 06

Vol. 44 (6): 1139-1146, November – December, 2018 doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2017.0569 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Matheus Neves Ribeiro da Silva 1, 2, Aline Mendes 1, João Roberto Maciel Martins 2, Marcos Tobias Machado 2, Maria...

ABSTRACT

Objective: To investigate the relationship between the pretreatment body mass index (BMI) and the clinical outcomes in patients with localized stage I – III renal cell carcinoma (RCC) surgically treated.

Materials and Methods: From January 2000 to December 2012, 798 patients with stage I – III RCC were recruited from First Affiliated Hospital and Cancer Center of Sun Yat – Sen University. Patients were divided into two groups of BMI < 25 kg / m2 or BMI ≥ 25 kg / m2 according to the World Health Organization classifications for Asian populations. The differences in the long-term survival of these two BMI groups were analyzed.

Vol. 44 (6): 1156-1165, November – December, 2018 doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2017.0505 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Lianchao Jin 1,2, Mingshuai Wang 1, Feiya Yang 1, Yinong Niu 1, Nianzeng Xing 1 1 Department of Urology, Beijing...

Vol. 44 (6): 1166-1173, November – December, 2018 doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2017.0460 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Changjin Shi 1, Feng Li 1, Yanchao Wang 1, Long Pei 1, Tao Wang 2 1 Department of Urology, the Fourth Affiliated...

Vol. 44 (6): 1174-1181, November – December, 2018 doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2017.0326 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Canqiang Li 1, Yi Yang 1, Le Xu 1, Minjie Qiu 1 1 Department of Urology, The Affiliated Hexian Memorial Hospital of...