Sexual disorders following retroperitoneal pelvic lymph node dissection(RPLND)for testis tumor can affect the quality of life of patients.The aim of the current study was to investigate several different andrological ...
This study was performed to investigate a potential marker for the presence of spermatozoa in the ejaculate following varicocelectomy in Chinese men with nonobstructive azoospermia and varicoceles. The micro-RNA (miR...
Dear Editor, In the 1940s, Charles Huggins discovered that surgical castration produced remarkable palliative benefits for men with advanced prostate cancer, an effect we now understand to be mediated through deprivi...
Emerging evidence has suggested that cytoreductive prostatectomy (CRP) allows superior oncologic control when compared to current standard of care androgen deprivation therapy alone. However, the safety and benefit ...
Sperm DNA damage is recognized as an important biomarker of male infertility. To investigate this, sperm DNA damage was assessed by the sperm chromatin dispersion (SCD) test in semen and motile spermatozoa harvested...
This study was designed to define possible preoperative predictors of positive surgical margin after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. We retrospectively analyzed the records of 296 patients with prostate cancer dia...
Radical prostatectomy (RP) and radiotherapy (RT) are highly effective in improving prostate cancer survival. However, both have a detrimental effect on erectile function (EF). Penile rehabilitation consists of u...
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a major complication after radical prostatectomy (RP); however, debatecontinues regarding the efficacy of penile rehabilitation in the recovery of the postoperative erectile function ...
Radioiodine therapy, the most effective form of systemic radiotherapy available, is currently useful only for thyroid cancer because of the thyroid-specific expression of the human sodium iodide symporter (hNIS). He...
Finnish men have had a reputation for good semen quality. This was based on semen studies comparing Finnish men with other Europeans. However, those studies also showed that sperm concentrations of young men from the ...