Synchronous metastatic disease is characterized by the presence of metastatic lesions, in addition to the primary tumor, at diagnosis. Investigators in South Korea demonstrated the benefit in a ...

Urethral strictures refer to the narrowing of the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine out of the body. This condition is typically caused by scarring, which can block or narrow the urethra, ...

The urethra is the thin tube that carries urine from the urinary bladder out of the body. A urethral stricture is when narrowing from scar tissue occurs in the urethra. Urethral strictures can ...

The Optilume device includes a balloon coated with paclitaxel. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Optilume ® Urethral Drug Coated Balloon (DCB) to treat patients with obstructive ...

Guidelines for male urethral stricture The guidelines provide a clinical framework for the diagnosis and treatment of male urethral stricture. A clinical framework to guide providers in the diagnosis ...

Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer duration of relief to patients ...

A team of surgeons in the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, led by Prof. Olayinka Shittu, has successfully performed an intricate procedure to reconstruct a urethral stricture in a ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Treating male urethral stricture with the patient’s own buccal mucosal cells, encapsulated in a polymer scaffold as carrier, has been granted a patent in Japan. A longer ...

NICE has said that Optilume can be used in the NHS for treating recurrent bulbar urethral strictures in adults if more data is collected on how well it works in the long term. Optilume is a balloon ...

Benjamin N. Breyer, MD, MAS, FACS, a renowned leader in urology and urological surgery, has been appointed chair of the UCSF Department of Urology. Breyer is internationally known for performing ...