Tips on Establishing a Robotics Program in an Academic Setting by William D. Steers

“…Driving this trend has been the large number of robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomies performed throughout the U.S. Nearly a quarter of the prostatectomies done for prostate cancer in the U.S. in 2006 will use robotic assistance, yet reports fail to confirm cost effectiveness. …”
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Initial Diagnosis and Detection of Very Late Local Recurrence of a Ductal Prostate Cancer due to a Ureteral Stone by Manolis Pratsinis, Charlotte Düwel, Olivia Köhle, Annette Enzler-Tschudy, Hans-Peter Schmid, Patrick Betschart

“…The initial PSA was 0.8 μg/l and the digital rectal examination was not suspicious. A radical prostatectomy was performed, and the ensuing follow-up was unremarkable with no signs of recurrence. …”
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Novel Use of Household Items in Open and Robotic Surgical Skills Resident Education by Keri Rowley, Deepak Pruthi, Osamah Al-Bayati, Joseph Basler, Michael A. Liss

“…These included a wound closure model, an open prostatectomy model, a delicate tissue simulation, a knot-tying station, and a laparoscopic simulator. …”
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Racial/Ethnic Patterns in Prostate Cancer Outcomes in an Active Surveillance Cohort by Jennifer Cullen, Stephen A. Brassell, Yongmei Chen, Christopher Porter, James L'Esperance, Timothy Brand, David G. McLeod

“…Secondary treatment included radical prostatectomy (RP), external beam radiation therapy or brachytherapy (EBRT-Br), and hormone therapy (HT). …”
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Isolated Testicular Metastasis Diagnosed More than a Decade and a Half Post Primary Treatment for Prostate Cancer by Nassib F. Abou Heidar, Gerges Bustros, Jose M. El-Asmar, Bassel Zein Sabatto, Jad A. Degheili

“…We herein present the case of a male patient who underwent a radical prostatectomy for a grade group 3 Gleason score 7 (4+3) prostate adenocarcinoma followed by adjuvant radiation therapy and continuous androgen deprivation therapy after his first biochemical recurrence. …”
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Prognostic value of intraductal carcinoma subtypes and postoperative radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer by Fang Cao, Qing Li, Tianyu Xiong, Yingjie Zheng, Tian Zhang, Mulan Jin, Liming Song, Nianzeng Xing, Yinong Niu

“…The purpose of the study is to identify the impact of IDC-P and its subtypes on the prognosis of patients undergoing post-operative radiotherapy (PORT) after radical prostatectomy (RP) due to localized prostate cancer(PCa). …”
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Complications and Functional Results of Surgery for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer by S. G. Joniau, A. A. Van Baelen, C. Y. Hsu, H. P. Van Poppel

“…We reviewed the records of 139 consecutive patients who underwent a radical prostatectomy (RP) for cT3 PCa with a mean follow-up of 8 years. …”
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Bipolar Saline TURP for Large Prostate Glands by David S. Finley, Shawn Beck, Richard J. Szabo

“…Bipolar TURP is a feasible alternative to simple open prostatectomy in high-risk patients with massive prostate adenomas. …”
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Distribution of Neuroendocrine Cells in the Transition Zone of the Prostate by Yuki Kyoda, Koji Ichihara, Kohei Hashimoto, Ko Kobayashi, Fumimasa Fukuta, Naoya Masumori

“…We reviewed specimens from 80 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy in our institution and evaluated the density of NE cells in the TZ. …”
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Long Term Progression-Free Survival in a Patient with Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer under Low Dose Intermittent Androgen Deprivation Therapy with Bicalutamide Only by Stefan Latz, Christian Fisang, Wolfram Ebert, Stefan Orth, Dirk G. Engehausen, Stefan C. Müller, Ralf Anding

“…After diagnosis of well to moderately differentiated prostate cancer by transrectal biopsy, the patient underwent an open radical prostatectomy. Final diagnosis was adenocarcinoma of the prostate, classified as pT3a, pR1, pV0, and pL1. …”
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Feasibility and safety of targeted focal microwave ablation of the index tumor in patients with low to intermediate risk prostate cancer: Results of the FOSTINE trial. by Nicolas Barry Delongchamps, Alexandre Schull, Julien Anract, Jean-Paul Abecassis, Marc Zerbib, Mathilde Sibony, Léa Jilet, Hendy Abdoul, Vincent Goffin, Michaël Peyromaure

“…One patient was treated with radical prostatectomy. Re-biopsy at 6 months in the other 9 did not show evidence of cancer in 4 patients. …”
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Concordance with final pathology when transitioning from standard transrectal to cognitive targeted transperineal prostate biopsy by Alfred Honoré, Karsten Gravdal, Patrick Juliebø‐Jones, Lars Anders Rokne Reisæter, Christian Beisland, Christian Arvei Moen

“…Material and methods Analysis of consecutive patients undergoing prostate biopsy and prostatectomy (RP) between January 2018 and May 2022 at a tertiary centre in Western Norway. …”
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Expression Levels of IL-17A, IL-17F, IL-17RA, and IL-17RC in Prostate Cancer with Taking into Account the Histological Grade according to Gleason Scale in Comparison to Benign Pros... by Marlena Janiczek, Łukasz Szylberg, Paulina Antosik, Anna Kasperska, Andrzej Marszałek

“…Studies were carried out on archival tissue material in the form of paraffin blocks of 40 men with PCa after radical prostatectomy. The control group was composed of 10 men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). …”
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Travel Burden and the Direct Medical Costs of Urologic Surgery by Daniel J. Olson, John L. Gore, Kenn B. Daratha, Kenneth P. Roberts

“…**Methods:** This was a retrospective observational cohort study of 12 106 patients over 50 years of age undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), radical prostatectomy (RP) or radical cystectomy (RC) in Washington State hospitals between 2009 and 2013. …”
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Pseudolumen Size and Perimeter in Prostate Cancer: Correlation with Patient Outcome by Kenneth A. Iczkowski, Kathleen C. Torkko, Gregory R. Kotnis, R. Storey Wilson, Wei Huang, Thomas M. Wheeler, Andrea M. Abeyta, M. Scott Lucia

“…That study used digitized radical prostatectomy slides from 153 men, 76 failures (≥0.2 ng/mL) matched to 77 nonfailures. …”
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Potentials and Limitations of Real-Time Elastography for Prostate Cancer Detection: A Whole-Mount Step Section Analysis by Daniel Junker, Georg Schäfer, Friedrich Aigner, Peter Schullian, Leo Pallwein-Prettner, Jasmin Bektic, Wolfgang Horninger, Ethan J. Halpern, Ferdinand Frauscher

“…Thirdy-nine patients with biopsy proven PCa underwent RTE before radical prostatectomy (RPE) to assess prostate tissue elasticity, and hard lesions were considered suspicious for PCa. …”
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Incidental Prostate Cancer in Transurethral Resection of the Prostate Specimens in the Modern Era by Brandon Otto, Christopher Barbieri, Richard Lee, Alexis E. Te, Steven A. Kaplan, Brian Robinson, Bilal Chughtai

“…Seven patients were managed by active surveillance with no further events, one patient underwent radiation, and three patients underwent radical prostatectomy. Conclusions. Our series demonstrates that 1.4% of patients were found to have prostate cancer, of these 0.5% required treatment. …”
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Diagnosis and clinical significance of prostate calcification using computed tomography by Seong Cheol Kim, Tae Young Lee, Woocheol Kang, Hoyoung Bae, Ji Hyung Yoon, Sungchan Park, Kyung Hyun Moon, Sang Hyeon Cheon, Taekmin Kwon

“…After applying exclusion criteria (prostate cancer, post-prostatectomy, indwelling urethral catheter, severe artifacts, and software errors), 4,805 patients were included in the final analysis. …”
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Tale of two zones: investigating the clinical outcomes and research gaps in peripheral and transition zone prostate cancer through a systematic review and meta-analysis by Pedro Oliveira, Robert G Bristow, Ananya Choudhury, Ashwin Sachdeva, Noel Clarke, Hitesh Mistry, Amin Ali, Thiraviyam Elumalai, BhanuPrasad Venkatesulu, Lauren Hekman, Esther Baena

“…Objective To assess pathological characteristics, clinical features and outcomes of patients diagnosed with peripheral zone (PZ) and transition zone (TZ) prostate cancer after prostatectomy.Methods and analysis We systematically reviewed PubMed, EMBASE and MEDLINE. …”
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Outcomes of Surgical Treatment of Multiple Primary Colorectal and Prostate Cancer by I. S. Ignatov, V. V. Balaban, E. A. Bezrukov, A. V. Nikishina, M. He, P. V. Tsarkov

“…Prostate cancer was verified first in the group with the metachronous variant of multiple primary cancer significantly more often than in the group with the synchronous variant (95.8 % vs. 40.0 %, respectively; p < 0.001), and was also significantly more often treated surgically (75.0 % vs. 33.3 %; p = 0.018). Radical prostatectomy was performed via laparotomy significantly less frequently in the group with the synchronous variant than in the group with the metachronous cancer (0 % vs. 58.8 %; p = 0.046). …”
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