Annals of Urologic Oncology

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  • Isolated tuberculous epididymal mass mimicking testicular malignancy: An interesting case report and lessons learnt

    Tejaswini Manne, Solomon Nazareth ... Natarajan Kumaresan

    Tuberculous epididymal mass is a condition that presents as a painless scrotal swelling. It resembles a testicular mass and is more often diagnosed after orchidectomy. About 22% of all genitourinary tuberculosis show epididymal involvement and 22% of epididymal tuberculosis are bilateral. This report reiterates the need for an increased awareness amongst the treating urologists that would enable a...

    CASE REPORT | Published: 22 May 2021

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    Pages: 1-4   PDF(1090KB)

  • Isolated large renal hydatid cyst treated by laparoscopic nephrectomy

    Veda Murthy Reddy Pogula, Ershad Hussain Galeti ... Ayesha Galeti

    Hydatid disease is caused by Echinococcus granulosus, which causes rare isolated presentation in the kidneys, and is estimated to be about 2-4% of all cases. We herein present a case of a 45-year-old symptomatic male patient with a large primary hydatid cyst in the left kidney that was treated successfully by laparoscopic left nephrectomy....

    CASE REPORT | Published: 20 Aug 2021

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    Pages: 5-9   PDF(1020KB)

  • Squamous cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder: Clinicopathological and molecular update -Review

    Sunil Vitthalrao Jagtap, Swati S Jagtap ... Snigdha Vartak

    Urinary bladder cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide.Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) is an uncommon subtype of urinary bladder carcinoma.It is a malignant epithelial neoplasm arising in the urinary bladder demonstrating a pure squamous cell phenotype. On histopathology it is considered when tumor is showing pure squamous morphology without any component of conventional urothelial ca...

    REVIEW | Published: 15 Jul 2021

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    Pages: 10-17   PDF(2060KB)

  • Hereditary renal cell tumors: Clinicopathologic importance

    Harmanjot Singh, Mukul K. Divatia ... Jae Y. Ro

    Hereditary renal cancer syndromes represent approximately 5% of renal malignancies and have distinctive clinical, histopathologic, and genetic features. Next-generation sequencing and other molecular testing methods have uncovered several hereditary renal cancer syndromes. Several autosomal dominant hereditary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) syndromes, including those related to germline pathogenic var...

    REVIEW | Published: 15 Oct 2021

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    Pages: 18-30   PDF(4520KB)

  • Roles of renin-angiotensin system in the regulation of prostate cancer bone metastasis: A critical review

    Manh Tien Tran

    Mestastatic prostate cancer cells (MPCCs) frequently metastasize to bone, which is a “favorite soil” for colonization and proliferation of MPCCs. Prostate cancer bone mestastasis is tightly associated with tumor-induced bone lesions, most commonly caused from (1) the etiological imbalance between osteoblastic bone formation and osteoclastic bone resorption and from (2) the anti-tumor immune respon...

    REVIEW | Published: 15 Oct 2021

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    Pages: 31-41   PDF(723KB)

  • Correlation between serum PSA, gleason score and histopathological grading of adenocarcinoma of prostate in patients undergoing TRUS guided prostatic biopsy ...

    Veda Murthy Reddy Pogula, Karthikesh Omkaram ... Bhargava Reddy Kanchi V

    Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Serum psa, a glycoprotein and a serine protease, which is increased in all prostatic diseases but markedly elevated levels are indicative of carcinoma prostate. The present study was done to evaluate the histopathologyof carcinoma of prostate in trus guided prostatic biopsy specimens and correl...

    RESEARCH | Published: 20 Dec 2021

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    Pages: 42-47   PDF(909KB)