unusual patient.A 79-years-old white man, presented with acute urinary retention, had a peripheral blood count with an elevated lymphocytosis (21.250/mL) with a differential of 65.3% lymphocytes and the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value was 3.38 ng/mL with a percent free PSA of 8.28%. ...
it doesn’t actually prevent more of your hair from falling out. So, yes, you may continue to lose hair after the surgery. And if your baldness worsens after surgery, it may expose the scars from the scalp reduction procedure.
Matrigel, a basement-membrane matrix extracted from Engelbreth–Holm–Swarm mouse sarcomas, has been used for more than four decades for a myriad of cell-culture applications. However, Matrigel is limited in its applicability to cellular biology, therape
Compromised sexual function is often a side effect for patients following radical surgical procedures for bladder or prostate cancer. The authors review the classification and physiology of sexual function and dysfunction. Moreover, they explain the possible pathophysiology directly resulting from surgery, ...
Most of the 25% of patients who are dissatisfied with transurethral resection of prostate complain of persistent frequency, urgency, and perhaps incontinence.5 Most will have suffered these symptoms before surgery and will have severe secondary detrusor instability, perhaps with borderline obstruction. ...
prostate cancerrobotic surgerylaparoscopic surgerysystematic reviewmeta-analysisObjective;To compare the effectiveness of robot-assisted and standard laparoscopic prostatectomy.Methods;A care pathway was described.We performed a systematic literature review based on a search of Medline, Medline in Process, ...
Robertson C, Close A, Fraser C et al (2013) Relative effectiveness of robot-assisted and standard laparoscopic prostatectomy as alternatives to open radical prostatectomy for treatment of localised prostate cancer: a systematic review and mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis. BJU Int 112:798–812...
A number of reports have been published during the last few years on the possibility that the prophylactic antibiotic treatment of cancer patients, which is deemed a necessary approach to prevent infections after surgery or during chemotherapy, may affect the outcome of their cancer treatment. After...