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World Journal of Urology

Issue 5/2021

Including the Topical Section: Immunotherapy in Genitourinary Cancers

Content (39 Articles)

Kidney Cancer Editorial

Immunotherapy in genitourinary cancers: achievements and perspectives

Evanguelos Xylinas, Mathieu Roumiguié, Paul Sargos

Immunotherapy in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: current status and future directions

John L. Pfail, Andrew B. Katims, Parissa Alerasool, John P. Sfakianos

Radiotherapy Topic Paper

Combined radiotherapy and immunotherapy in urothelial bladder cancer: harnessing the full potential of the anti-tumor immune response

Mame Daro-Faye, Wassim Kassouf, Luis Souhami, Gautier Marcq, Fabio Cury, Tamim Niazi, Paul Sargos

PD-L1 testing in urothelial bladder cancer: essentials of clinical practice

Mathieu Rouanne, Camélia Radulescu, Julien Adam, Yves Allory

Immune checkpoint inhibition in upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Gianluigi Califano, Idir Ouzaid, Paolo Verze, Jean-Francois Hermieu, Vincenzo Mirone, Evanguelos Xylinas

Kidney Cancer Topic Paper

Neoadjuvant and adjuvant immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma

Alberto Martini, Giuseppe Fallara, Francesco Pellegrino, Giuseppe Ottone Cirulli, Alessandro Larcher, Andrea Necchi, Francesco Montorsi, Umberto Capitanio

Kidney Cancer Topic Paper

Update on the most promising biomarkers of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Ivan Pourmir, Johanna Noel, Audrey Simonaggio, Stéphane Oudard, Yann-Alexandre Vano

Open Access Prostate Cancer Topic Paper

Immunotherapy in prostate cancer: new horizon of hurdles and hopes

Igor Tsaur, Maximilian P. Brandt, Eva Juengel, Cécile Manceau, Guillaume Ploussard

Penile cancer: potential target for immunotherapy?

Joren Vanthoor, Gigi Vos, Maarten Albersen

Human Papillomavirus Invited Review

What you need to know: updates in penile cancer staging

Mahmoud I. Khalil, Mohamed H. Kamel, Jasreman Dhillon, Viraj Master, Rodney Davis, Ali J. Hajiran, Philippe E. Spiess

Prostate Cancer Original Article

Clinical recommendations in the management of advanced prostate cancer: International Gastrointestinal, Liver and Uro-oncology (IGILUC 2019) experts

Hesham Elghazaly, Nicolas Mottet, Jorge Garcia, Stephane Oudard, Mack Roach, Claude Abbou, Axel Merseburger, Amr Emara, Samir Shehata, Hesham Tawfik, Ola Khorshid, Ahmed Selim, Akram Assem, Khalid Abdelkarim, Lobna Ezz El-Arab, Shouki Bazarbashi, Abbass Omar, Hesham Elwakil, Mohamed Elashry, Mohamed Abou ElFotouh, Tarek Osman, Mai Ezz El Din

Open Access Prostatectomy Original Article

Impact of previous transurethral prostate surgery on health-related quality of life after radical prostatectomy: Does the interval between surgeries matter?

Michael Chaloupka, Franka Figura, Philipp Weinhold, Friedrich Jokisch, Thilo Westhofen, Paulo Pfitzinger, Robert Bischoff, Giuseppe Magistro, Frank Strittmatter, Armin Becker, Steffen Ormanns, Boris Schlenker, Alexander Buchner, Christian G. Stief, Alexander Kretschmer

Urinary Incontinence Original Article

Use of EPIC 26 to identify men likely to benefit from surgical interventions for urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy

Syed Alam, Richard Kershen, Ilene Staff, Tara McLaughlin, Joseph Tortora, Joseph Wagner

Prostate Cancer Original Article

How radical prostatectomy procedures have changed over the last 10 years in Italy: a comparative analysis based on more than 1500 patients participating in the MIRROR-SIU/LUNA and the Pros-IT CNR study

Mauro Gacci, Walter Artibani, Pierfrancesco Bassi, Filippo Bertoni, Sergio Bracarda, Alberto Briganti, Giorgio Carmignani, Luca Carmignani, Giario Conti, Renzo Corvò, Cosimo De Nunzio, Ferdinando Fusco, Pierpaolo Graziotti, Isabella Greco, Stefania Maggi, Stefano Maria Magrini, Vincenzo Mirone, Rodolfo Montironi, Giuseppe Morgia, Giovanni Muto, Marianna Noale, Stefano Pecoraro, Angelo Porreca, Umberto Ricardi, Elvio Russi, Giorgio Russo, Andrea Salonia, Alchiede Simonato, Sergio Serni, Davide Tomasini, Andrea Tubaro, Vittorina Zagonel, Gaetano Crepaldi, Walter Artibani, Pierfrancesco Bassi, Sergio Bracarda, Giario Natale Conti, Renzo Corvò, Gaetano Crepaldi, Angelo Porreca, Pierpaolo Graziotti, Stefania Maggi, Vincenzo Mirone, Rodolfo Montironi, Marianna Noale, Elvio Russi, Filippo Bertoni, Mauro Gacci, Stefano Maria Magrini, Giovanni Muto, Stefano Pecoraro, Umberto Ricardi, Andrea Tubaro, Vittorina Zagonel, Anna Rita Alitto, Enrica Ambrosi, Alessandro Antonelli, Cynthia Aristei, Franco Bardari, Lilia Bardoscia, Salvina Barra, Sara Bartoncini, Umberto Basso, Carlotta Becherini, Rita Bellavita, Franco Bergamaschi, Stefania Berlingheri, Alfredo Berruti, Marco Borghesi, Roberto Bortolus, Valentina Borzillo, Davide Bosetti, Giuseppe Bove, Pierluigi Bove, Maurizio Brausi, Alessio Bruni, Giorgio Bruno, Eugenio Brunocilla, Alberto Buffoli, Michela Buglione, Consuelo Buttigliero, Giovanni Cacciamani, Michela Caldiroli, Giuseppe Cardo, Giorgio Carmignani, Giuseppe Carrieri, Emanuele Castelli, Elisabetta Castrezzati, Gianpiero Catalano, Susanna Cattarino, Francesco Catucci, Dario Cavallini Francolini, Ofelia Ceccarini, Antonio Celia, Francesco Chiancone, Tommaso Chini, Claudia Cianci, Antonio Cisternino, Devis Collura, Franco Corbella, Matteo Corinti, Paolo Corsi, Fiorenza Cortese, Luigi Corti, Nunzio deCosimo, Olga Cristiano, D’Angelillo Rolando, Luigi Da Pozzo, Daniele D’Agostino, Carolina D’Elia, Matteo Dandrea, Micheles De Angelis, Paolo De Angelis, Ottavio De Cobelli, Bernardino De Concilio, Antonello De Lisa, Stefano De Luca, Agostina De Stefani, Chiara Lucrezia Deantoni, Claudio Degli Esposti, Anna Destito, Beatrice Detti, Nadia Di Muzio, Andrea Di Stasio, Calogero Di Stefano, Danilo Di Trapani, Giuseppe Difino, Sara Falivene, Giuseppe Farullo, Paolo Fedelini, Ilaria Ferrari, Francesco Ferraù, Matteo Ferro, Andrei Fodor, Francesco Fontana, Francesco Francesca, Giulio Francolini, Paolo Frata, Giovanni Frezza, Pietro Gabriele, Maria Galeandro, Elisabetta Garibaldi, Pietro Giovanni Gennari, Alessandro Gentilucci, Alessandro Giacobbe, Laura Giussani, Giuseppe Giusti, Paolo Gontero, Alessia Guarneri, Cesare Guida, Alberto Gurioli, Dorijan Huqi, Ciro Imbimbo, Gianluca Ingrosso, Cinzia Iotti, Corrado Italia, Pierdaniele La Mattina, Roberto La Rocca, Enza Lamanna, Luciana Lastrucci, Grazia Lazzari, Fabiola Liberale, Giovanni Liguori, Roberto Lisi, Frank Lohr, Riccardo Lombardo, Jon AJ Lovisolo, Giuseppe Mario Ludovico, Nicola Macchione, Francesca Maggio, Michele Malizia, Gianluca Manasse, Giovanni Mandoliti, Giovanna Mantini, Luigi Marafioti, Luisa Marciello, Alberto Mario Marconi, Antonietta Martilotta, Salvino Marzano, Stefano Masciullo, Gloria Maso, Adele Massenzo, Ercole Mazzeo, Luigi Mearini, Serena Medoro, Rosa Molè, Giorgio Monesi, Emanuele Montanari, Franco Montefiore, Giampaolo Montesi, Giuseppe Morgia, Gregorio Moro, Giorgio Muscas, Daniela Musio, Paolo Muto, Giovanni Muzzonigro, Giorgio Napodano, Carlo Luigi Augusto Negro, Mattia Nidini, Maria Ntreta, Marco Orsatti, Carmela Palazzolo, Isabella Palumbo, Alessandro Parisi, Paolo Parma, Nicola Pavan, Martina Pericolini, Francesco Pinto, Antonio Pistone, Valerio Pizzuti, Angelo Platania, Caterina Polli, Giorgio Pomara, Elisabetta Ponti, Antonio Benito Porcaro, Francesco Porpiglia, Dario Pugliese, Armin Pycha, Giuseppe Raguso, Andrea Rampini, Donato Franco Randone, Valentina Roboldi, Marco Roscigno, Maria Paola Ruggieri, Giuseppe Ruoppo, Roberto Sanseverino, Anna Santacaterina, Michele Santarsieri, Riccardo Santoni, Sarah Scagliarini, Giorgio Vittorio Scagliotti, Mauro Scanzi, Marcello Scarcia, Riccardo Schiavina, Alessandro Sciarra, Carmine Sciorio, Tindaro Scolaro, Salvatore Scuzzarella, Oscar Selvaggio, Armando Serao, Sergio Serni, Marco Andrea Signor, Mauro Silvani, Giovanni Silvano, Franco Silvestris, Claudio Simeone, Valeria Simone, Girolamo Spagnoletti, Matteo Giulio Spinelli, Luigi Squillace, Vincenzo Tombolini, Mariastella Toninelli, Luca Triggiani, Alberto Trinchieri, Luca Trodella, Eolo Luca, Lucio Trodella, Carlo Trombetta, Lidia Tronnolone, Marcello Tucci, Daniele Urzì, Riccardo Valdagni, Maurizio Valeriani, Maurizio Vanoli, Elisabetta Vitali, Alessandro Volpe, Stefano Zaramella, Guglielmo Zeccolini, Giampaolo Zini, Ferdinando Acanfora, Ernesto Aiello, Simonato Alchiede, Vincenzo Altieri, Claudio Anceschi, Francesco Aragona, Walter Artibani, Filippo Balloni, Ezio Barasolo, Giuseppe Barba, Riccardo Bartoletti, Pierfrancesco Bassi, Barbara Bigazzi, Emanuele Belgrano, Siracusano Salvatore, Michele Battaglia, Luca Bellei, Attilio Bettin, Giampaolo Bianchi, Leonardo Bombieri, Tommaso Brancato, Guglielmo Breda, Alberto Briganti, Sergio Caggiano, Antonino Calabrò, Michela Caldironi, Biagio Campo, Sergio Capobianco, Francesco Capparelli, Antonio Carbone, Daniele Carlo, Giorgio Carmignani, Giuseppe Catalano, Francesco Catanzaro, Francesco Ciaraldi, Virgilio Cicalese, Antono Cisternino, Carlo Corbu, Sergio Cosciani Cunico, Vincenzo Cosentino, Aldo Crimi, Giuseppina Cucchiarale, Daniele Cuscunà, Rocco Damiano, Massimino D’Armiento, Ottavio De Cobelli, Carlo De Dominicis, Gaetano De Grande, Carlo Del Boca, Angelo D’Elia, Antonello De Lisa, Stefano De Luca, Emmanuel De Mayo, Michele De Martin, Luigi Di Clemente, Sergio Di Meo, Giovanni Di Monaco, Giuliano Di Nicola, Alessandro Di Silverio, Franco Di Silverio, Franco Fabri, Mario Falsaperla, Franco Fanciullacci, Giovanni Ferrari, Gaspare Fiaccavento, Antonio Filoni, Dario Fontana, Gabriele Fontana, Hassan Ghabin, Bruno Frea, Franco Gaboardi, Mauro Gacci, Vincenzo Gentile, Marco Giandotti, Paolo Gontero, Marco Grasso, Gaetano Grosso, Stefano Guazzieri, Antonino Isaia, Giuseppe Landi, Roberto Landolfi, Piero Larcher, Cesare Laurenti, Dino Lavelli, Gianni Lorenzo Leidi, Antonino Lembo, Sergio Leoni, Giuseppe Mario Ludovico, Nicola Maffei, Massimo Maffezzini, Carlo Martinengo, Carlo Manieri, Alberto Mario Marconi, Giuseppe Martorana, Rosaria Mazza, Mauro Medica, Darwin Melloni, Lucio Miano, Emanuele Micheli, Raffaella Milesi, Mauro Silvano Minervini, Danilo Minocci, Vincenzo Mirone, Angelo Molon, Emanuele Montanari, Patrizia Morello, Giuseppe Morgia, Mario Motta, Giovanni Muzzonigro, Federico Narcisi, Giulio Nicita, Salvatore Palermo, Mauro Paoluzzi, Paolo Parma, Paolo Pompa, Massimo Porena, Giovanni Raciti, Donato Franco Randone, Antonio Rizzotto, Francesco Rocco, Michele Romano, Leonardo Rossini, Gian Rosario Russo, Roberto Salvioni, Sandro Sandri, Gianfranco Savoca, Cesare Selli, Francesco Paolo Selvaggi, Fabio Sercia, Carlo Tallarigo, Marco Tanello, Andrea Tasca, Raffaello Tenaglia, Mario Tensi, Carlo Terrone, Luigi Tralce, Alberto Trinchieri, Alessandra Vagge, Primo Valenti, Marco Varaldo, Giuseppe Vespasiani, Carlo Vicentini, Francesco Vicirca, Paolo Viganò, Vincenzo Zaccone, Camil Zartar

Prostate Cancer Original Article

Athermal versus ultrasonic nerve-sparing laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: a comparison of functional and oncological outcomes

Vincenzo Pagliarulo, Stefano Alba, Maria Filomena Gallone, Marcello Zingarelli, Alfonso Lorusso, Paolo Minafra, Giuseppe Maria Ludovico, Savino Di Stasi, Pasquale Ditonno

Prostate Cancer Original Article

Prognostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsy in defining prostate cancer anterior lesions

Angelo Porreca, Federico Mineo Bianchi, Antonio Salvaggio, Daniele D’Agostino, Alessandro Del Rosso, Daniele Romagnoli, Paolo Corsi, Michele Colicchia, Umberto Barbaresi, Lorenzo Bianchi, Marco Giampaoli, Riccardo Schiavina, Katie Palmer, Francesco Del Giudice, Martina Maggi, Matteo Ferro, Alessandro Sciarra, Ettore De Berardinis, Gian Maria Busetto

Prostate Cancer Original Article

The significance of a high preoperative PSA level for the detection of incidental prostate cancer in LUTS patients with large prostates

Giuseppe Magistro, Patrick Keller, Thilo Westhofen, Melanie Schott, Alexander Tamalunas, Philipp Weinhold, Christian G. Stief

Prostate Cancer Original Article

External evaluation of the Briganti nomogram to predict lymph node metastases in intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients

Nicolas Peilleron, Arnaud Seigneurin, Caroline Herault, Camille Verry, Michel Bolla, Jean-Jacques Rambeaud, Jean-Luc Descotes, Jean-Alexandre Long, Gaelle Fiard

Prostate Cancer Original Article

The impact of atrial fibrillation on outcomes in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy

Miao Wang, Yi-feng Yang, Bo-da Guo, Hui-min Hou, Ling-feng Meng, Xuan Wang, Millicent Amankwah, Bao-qiong Liu, Cheng-yue Jin, Ming Liu, Jian-ye Wang

Enterostomy Original Article

Stoma complications and quality of life in patients with Indiana pouch versus appendico/neo-appendico-umbilicostomy urinary diversions

Kai Wen Cheng, Wesley Yip, Ankeet Shah, Luis G. Medina, Alireza Ghoreifi, Gus Miranda, Anne Schuckman, Siamak Daneshmand, Hooman Djaladat

Spina Bifida Original Article

Bladder cancer in patients with spina bifida: a serious risk

Julia Mühlbauer, Raimund Stein, Nina Younsi

Cystectomy Original Article

Positive Ki-67 and PD-L1 expression in post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy muscle-invasive bladder cancer is associated with shorter overall survival: a retrospective study

Selene Rubino, Youngchul Kim, Junmin Zhou, Jasreman Dhilon, Roger Li, Philippe Spiess, Michael Poch, Brandon J. Manley, Julio Pow-Sang, Scott Gilbert, Wade Sexton, Jingsong Zhang

Cystectomy Original Article

Androgen receptor and immune cell PD-L1 expression in bladder tumors predicts disease recurrence and survival

Paul Toren, Hervé Brisson, David Simonyan, Hélène Hovington, Louis Lacombe, Alain Bergeron, Yves Fradet

Cystectomy Original Article

The natural course of urinalysis after urinary diversion

Giuseppe Magistro, Lukas Zimmermann, Robert Bischoff, Thilo Westhofen, Tobias Grimm, Boris Schlenker, Christian G. Stief, Julian Marcon

Nephrectomy Original Article

Achieving the “trifecta” with open versus minimally invasive partial nephrectomy

Samrad Ghavimi, Olli Saarela, Frederic Pouliot, Ricardo A. Rendon, Antonio Finelli, Anil Kapoor, Ronald B. Moore, Rodney H. Breau, Luke Lavallee, Louis Lacombe, Adrian Fairey, Michael Jewett, Zhihui Liu, Simon Tanguay, Peter C. Black

Nephrectomy Original Article

The effect of partial nephrectomy on blood pressure in patients with solitary kidney

Nikhil Gupta, Vishnu Ganesan, Tian-min Gao, Joseph Zabell, Steven C. Campbell, Georges-Pascal Haber

Septicemia Original Article

The prognostic value of serum procalcitonin in acute obstructive pyelonephritis

Michael Baboudjian, Bastien Gondran-Tellier, Mathieu Di Bisceglie, Rony Abdallah, Floriane Michel, Pierre Clement Sichez, Khalid Al-Balushi, Akram Akiki, Sarah Gaillet, Veronique Delaporte, Gilles Karsenty, Eric Lechevallier, Régis Guieu, Romain Boissier

Refractory lower urinary tract symptoms in patients with lumbar disc hernia relieved by non-surgical treatment

Lei Xu, Yong Zhang, Xiangde Min, Lina Li, Qing Ling, Shengfei Xu, Libo Liu, Peng Cao, Liang Wang, Jianming Wang, Guanghui Du

Incision Original Article

The impact of the laser fiber-tissue distance on histological parameters in a porcine kidney model

Mark Taratkin, Christopher Netsch, Dmitry Enikeev, Andreas J. Gross, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Dmitry Korolev, Ekaterina Laukhtina, Petr Glybochko, Benedikt Becker

Hypospadia Original Article

Double-face preputial island flap revisited: is it a reliable one-stage repair for severe hypospadias?

Thomas Blanc, Matthieu Peycelon, Mohammed Siddiqui, Cecile Muller, Annabel Paye-Jaouen, Alaa El-Ghoneimi

Original Article

The impact of phone counseling on urinary stone prevention

Amihay Nevo, Karen L. Stern, Jonathan P. Moore, Mitchell R. Humphreys, Mark D. Tyson, Mira T. Keddis

Open Access Nephrectomy Original Article

The comprehensive complication index (CCI): proposal of a new reporting standard for complications in major urological surgery

K. F. Kowalewski, D. Müller, J. Mühlbauer, J. D. Hendrie, T. S. Worst, F. Wessels, M. T. Walach, J. von Hardenberg, P. Nuhn, P. Honeck, M. S. Michel, M. C. Kriegmair

Pyeloplasty Original Article

Robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (RALP) in children with complex pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO): results of a multicenter European report

Ciro Esposito, Lorenzo Masieri, Thomas Blanc, Layla Musleh, Quentin Ballouhey, Laurent Fourcade, Maria Escolino

Pyeloplasty Original Article

Feasibility and safety of magnetic-end double-J ureteral stent insertion and removal in children

Marc Chalhoub, Jules Kohaut, Nicolas Vinit, Nathalie Botto, Yves Aigrain, Yves Héloury, Henri Lottmann, Thomas Blanc