Urologic oncology
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Multicenter Study
The effect of surgical duration of transurethral resection of bladder tumors on postoperative complications: An analysis of ACS NSQIP data.
Transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) is a common procedure used in the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer. Despite how often it is performed, not much is known about the risk factors for complications. Traditional surgery has an increase in morbidity and mortality with increasing operative duration. We assess the effect of operative duration on TURBT complications. ⋯ Using a contemporary multicenter cohort of TURBTs from the ACS NSQIP database, we demonstrate that increased operative duration is associated with serious postoperative complications. This association was found to persist even after adjusting for patient age, comorbidities, tumor size, and functional status.
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To investigate diagnostic performance of diffusion kurtosis imaging with histogram analysis for stratifying pathologic Gleason grade of prostate cancer (PCa). ⋯ It demonstrated a good reliability of histogram diffusion kurtosis imaging for stratifying pathologic GS of PCa. The 90th K(app) had better diagnostic performance in differentiating LG-PCa from HG-PCa.