Dye industry Textiles Printing Rubber industry/Tyre manufacture Steel industry Cable manufacture Leather industry Petroleum Shoemakers Lorry drivers Drill press workers Rodent exterminators Sewage workers Hairdressers In 1938, Hueper et al….
Molecular alteration Correlated with low-grade disease (% of cases) Correlated with high-grade disease (% of cases) Reference # FGFR3 40–88 0–36 [28–30, 32–38] RAS 0–44 2–65 [32, 33, 42, 43,…
Fig. 48.1 F-18 NaF PET bone scan images of a 87 year old male treated with radical prostatectomy in 1997 for Gleason score 5 adenocarcinoma. He experienced biochemical recurrence, and…
such that the probability of a false positive is α and the power to detect the largest clinically relevant difference in event rates is 1 − β. Assuming that both the treatment…
Radiopharmaceutical agent Indication 99Tcm Diethylene Triamine-pentaacetic acid (DTPA) Measurement of GFR, renography 99Tcm Mercaptoacetylgly-cylglycylglycine (MAG3) Clearance studies, renography 99Tcm dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) Divided renal function, characterization of renal space occupying…
Fig. 12.1 Incision at the bladder neck The longitudinal musculature at the prostate-vesical junction is then divided with scissors. This opens the space, which contains the vasa deferentia. The vasa…
Germ cell tumors Intratubular germ cell neoplasia, unclassified type (IGCNU) Seminoma (including cases with syncytiotrophoblastic cells) Spermatocytic seminoma (mention if there is sarcomatous component) Embryonal carcinoma Yolk sac tumour Choriocarcinoma…
Author Year N° pts PSA (mean; ng/ml) N° cores Cancer detection rate (%) Borboroglu et al. [48] 2000 57 8.6 22.5 30 Stewart et al. [49] 2001 224 8.7 23…
Infravesical: Urothelial cancer of the bladder, prostate cancer, urethral carcinoma, carcinoma cervix/uterus/ovary and rectum Supravesical: Urothelial cancer of ureter and renal pelvis, bladder, primary or secondary Retroperitoneal lymph node involvement,…
Fig. 44.1 Cryoprobe placement for whole-gland treatment (Courtesy of Galil Medical, Inc, USA with permission) Fig. 44.2 Cryoprobe template insertion (Courtesy of Galil Medical, Inc, USA with permission) Argon gas…
