Int Braz J Urol. Vol. 35 N. 06 – 2009
CONTENTS
EDITOR’S COMMENT
638 | Francisco J.B. Sampaio, M.D.
REVIEW ARTICLE
640 | Intravesical Therapy for Urothelial Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder: A Critical Review
Daher C. Chade, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Guido Dalbagni (Editorial Comment by Dr. Philippe E. Spiess)
CLINICAL UROLOGY
652 | Tumor Thrombus Involving the Inferior Vena Cava in Renal Malignancy: Is There a Difference in Clinical Presentation and Outcome among Right and Left Side Tumors?
Devendar Katkoori, Manoharan Murugesan, Gaetano Ciancio, Mark S. Soloway (Editorial Comment by Dr. Antonio Augusto Ornellas)
658 | Metabolic Investigation of Patients with Staghorn Calculus: Is It Necessary?
Carmen R. P. Amaro, Jose Goldberg, Aparecido D. Agostinho, Patricia Damasio, Paulo R. Kawano, Oscar E. H. Fugita, Joao L. Amaro (Editorial Comment by Dr. Mario Motta & Dr. Alberto & Dr. Eleanor D. Lederer)
664 | UroVysionTM Testing Can Lead to Early Identification of Intravesical Therapy Failure in Patients with High Risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer
Jared M. Whitson, Anna B. Berry, Peter R. Carroll, Badrinath R. Konety Dr. Ellen C. Zwarthoff (Editorial Comment by Dr. T. Hajdinjak & Dr. Ellen C. Zwarthoff)
673 | Altered Male Physiologic Function after Surgery for Prostate Cancer: Couple Perspective
Matvey Tsivian, Janice M. Mayes, Tracey L. Krupski, Vladimir Mouraviev, Craig F. Donatucci, Thomas J. Polascik
683 | Transurethral Resection of the Prostate for the Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Related to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: How Much Should Be Resected?
Alberto A. Antunes, Miguel Srougi, Rafael F. Coelho, Katia R. Leite, Geraldo de C. Freire (Editorial Comment by Dr. Jae-Seung Paick; Dr. Riccardo Autorino & Dr. Marco De Sio)
692 | Imaging of the Acute Scrotum: Is There a Place for Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasonography?
Moschouris, K. Stamatiou, E. Lampropoulou, D. Kalikis, D. Matsaidonis (Editorial Comment by Dr. Jeffrey Tiemstra; Dr. Vikram S. Dogra; Dr. Pietro Pepe & bDr. Yuji Watanabe)
NEUROUROLOGY
706 | Transobturator Male Sling TOMSTM for the Treatment of Stress Post-Prostatectomy Incontinence, Initial Experience and Results with One Year’s Experience
Philippe Grise, Marc Geraud, Jean Lienhart, Benoit Le Portz, Michael Bubenheim, Pierre Costa (Editorial Comment by Dr. David Rapp & Dr. Ricarda M. Bauer)
INVESTIGATIVE UROLOGY
716 | Alfuzosin Hydrochloride Transdermal Films: Evaluation of Physicochemical, In Vitro Human Cadaver Skin Permeation and Thermodynamic Parameters
Satyanarayan Pattnaik, Kalpana Swain, Parthagan Choudhury, Pradeepta K. Acharya, Subrata Mallick
UROLOGICAL SURVEY
731 | Is there an adjunctive role of tamsulosin to extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for upper ureteric stones: results of an open label randomized nonplacebo controlled study
Agarwal MM, Naja V, Singh SK, Mavuduru R, Mete UK, Kumar S, Mandal AK
732 | The effects of tolterodine extended release and alfuzosin for the treatment of double-j stentrelated symptoms
Park SC, Jung SW, Lee JW, Rim JS
ENDOUROLOGY & LAPAROSCOPY
733 | Laparoscopic management of ureteral endometriosis: the Stanford University hospital experience with 96 consecutive cases
Bosev D, Nicoll LM, Bhagan L, Lemyre M, Payne CK, Gill H, Nezhat C
733 | Salvage robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy: initial results and early report of outcomes
Boris RS, Bhandari A, Krane LS, Eun D, Kaul S, Peabody JO
IMAGING
734 | Segmental enhancement inversion at biphasic multidetector CT: characteristic finding of small renal oncocytoma
Kim JI, Cho JY, Moon KC, Lee HJ, Kim SH
736 | Prostate tumor volume measurement with combined T2-weighted imaging and diffusion-weighted MR: correlation with pathologic tumor volume
Mazaheri Y, Hricak H, Fine SW, Akin O, Shukla-Dave A, Ishill NM, Moskowitz CS, Grater JE, Reuter VE, Zakian KL, Touijer KA, Koutcher JA
UROGENITAL TRAUMA
737 | Radiographic predictors of need for angiographic embolization after traumatic renal injury
Nuss GR, Morey AF, Jenkins AC, Pruitt JH, Dugi DD 3rd, Morse B, Shariat SF
737 | Minimally invasive endovascular techniques to treat acute renal hemorrhage
Breyer BN, McAninch JW, Elliott SP, Master VA
PATHOLOGY
739 | The significance of a positive bladder neck margin after radical prostatectomy: The American Joint Committee on Cancer pathological stage T4 designation is not warranted
Pierorazio PM, Epstein JI, Humphreys E, Han M, Walsh PC, Partin AW
741 | Radical prostatectomy findings in patients in whom active surveillance of prostate cancer fails
Duffield AS, Lee TK, Miyamoto H, Carter HB, Epstein JI
BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL UROLOGY
742 | Uropathogen interaction with the surface of urological stents using different surfasse properties
Lange D, Elwood CN, Choi K, Hendlin K, Monga M, Chew BH
743 | Cryptorchidism with short spermatic vessels: staged orchiopexy preserving spermatic vessels
Dessanti A, Falchetti D, Iannuccelli M, Milianti S, Altana C, Tanca AR, Ubertazzi M, Strusi GP, Fusillo M
RECONSTRUCTIVE UROLOGY
744 | Clinical outcome and quality of life assessment in patients treated with perineal urethrostomy for anterior urethral stricture disease
Barbagli G, De Angelis M, Romano G, Lazzeri M
745 | Urinary side effects and complications after permanent prostate brachytherapy: the MD Anderson Cancer Center experience
Anderson JF, Swanson DA, Levy LB, Kuban DA, Lee AK, Kudchadker R, Phan J, Bruno T, Frank SJ
UROLOGICAL ONCOLOGY
746 | Long-term efficacy of maintenance bacillus Calmette-Guérin versus maintenance mitomycin C instillation therapy in frequently recurrent TaT1 tumours without carcinoma in situ: a subgroup analysis of the prospective, randomised FinnBladder I study with a 20-year follow-up
Järvinen R, Kaasinen E, Sankila A, Rintala E; FinnBladder Group
747 | An individual patient data meta-analysis of the long-term outcome of randomised studies comparing intravesical mitomycin C versus bacillus Calmette-Guérin for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Malmström PU, Sylvester RJ, Crawford DE, Friedrich M, Krege S, Rintala E, Solsona E, Di Stasi SM, Witjes JÁ
NEUROLOGY & FEMALE UROLOGY
749 | Prevalence of incontinence and incontinence-specific quality of life impairment in women with cystic fibrosis
Vella M, Cartwright R, Cardozo L, Parsons M, Madge S, Burns Y
750 | Do women with pure stress urinary incontinence need urodynamics?
Digesu GA, Hendricken C, Fernando R, Khullar V
PEDIATRIC UROLOGY
751 | Adherence in children with nocturnal enuresis
Baeyens D, Lierman A, Roeyers H, Hoebeke P, Walle JV
752 | Mitrofanoff continent catheterizable conduits: top down or bottom up?
Berkowitz J, North AC, Tripp R, Gearhart JP, Lakshmanan Y
VIDEO
753 | Laparoscopic Circumcaval Ureteral Repair with Concomitant Laparoscopic- Guided Nephroscopic Calculi Extraction
Curcio, B. Cançado, A. C. Cunha, J. Renteria, F. Gusmão, G. Di Biase
