Waist Circumference and Metabolic Syndrome: Why Your Waistline Is More Than a Measurement Introduction Of all the numbers your doctor might record at a routine visit — blood pressure, cholesterol, blo...
Primary Urethral Cancer: Understanding Staging, Survival Rates, and Treatment Options Introduction Primary urethral carcinoma is one of the rarest and most challenging cancers in urology — accounting ...
Tumor Markers in Advanced Bladder Cancer: Can a Blood Test Tell You What Imaging Cannot? Introduction Bladder cancer is the tenth most common cancer globally, and its management is defined by one unco...
Laparoscopic Simple Prostatectomy for Large Prostate: The Minimally Invasive Alternative to Open Surgery Introduction Benign prostatic hyperplasia affects the majority of men as they age — and for mos...
Urethral-Sparing Laparoscopic Simple Prostatectomy: How a Technical Innovation Is Changing BPH Surgery Introduction When the prostate grows so large that standard endoscopic surgery can no longer safe...
Tamsulosin After Shock Wave Lithotripsy: Does an Alpha-Blocker Help Kidney Stones Pass Faster? Introduction Kidney stones are among medicine’s oldest documented afflictions — described in ancien...
Prostate Cancer Epidemiology and Risk Factors: What the Global and Iranian Data Tell Us Introduction Prostate cancer occupies a paradoxical position in global oncology. It is simultaneously one of the...
Urological Complications After Spinal Cord Injury: What Every Patient and Clinician Needs to Know Introduction Before the development of modern bladder management, urological complications were the le...
Bipolar vs. Monopolar TURP: Understanding the Gold Standard Debate in Prostate Surgery Introduction Transurethral resection of the prostate has been the gold standard surgical treatment for benign pro...
Nephrostomy Tubes After Kidney Stone Surgery: Do You Always Need One? Introduction Percutaneous nephrolithotomy — threading instruments through the skin directly into the kidney to remove large or com...