ISSN 1124-3562
Vol. 95; n. 2, June 2023 ORIGINAL PAPERS 1 Luciano Giuliani (1928-1994): Great master and founding father of modern Italian Urology Mariano Martini, Giuseppe Martorana
7 New concept in urologic surgery: The total extended genital sparing radical cystectomy in women Antonio Cisternino, Lorenzo Capone, Antonio Rosati, Costanzo Latiano, Nicola Sebastio, Antonio Colella, Giuseppe Cretì
14 Effectiveness and safety of spinal anesthesia in patients undergoing open radical retropubic prostatectomy Salvatore Blanco, Angelica Grasso, Endrit Sulmina, Marco Grasso
18 The use of renal biopsy in the kidney tumor management: A retrospective analysis of consecutive cases in a referral center Andrea Benedetto Galosi, Marco Macchini, Roberto Candelari, Virgilio De Stefano, Silvia Stramucci, Vanessa Cammarata, Omar Al Ayoubi, Andrea Cicconofri, Carlo Giulioni
23 HER2/neu expression status of post BCG recurrent non-muscle-invasive bladder urothelial carcinomas in relation to their primary ones Mohamed Yousef Ali, Ahmed Yousef Aboelsaad, Ahmed M. Abdel Gawad, Tamer A. Abouelgreed, Ahmed A. El Gammal, Osama M. Ghoneimy, Eman M. El-Dydamony, Ahmed A. Alrefaey, Eslam Mohamed, Sherif Azzam, Ayman Abdelmohaymen, Yasien Mohammed, Mohammed S. Abdelwahed, Ahmed Fawzi A. Elsayed, Basem A. Fathi, Nosaiba M. Abd Alrahim, Abeer S. Farag, Alaa R. Mahmoud, Hasan Ismail Mohamed, Seth Horsu, Abdulkarim Hasan
28 The association between serum hypoxia inducible factor-1α level and urothelial bladder cancer: A preliminary study Ginanda Putra Siregar, Ida Parwati, Bambang Sasongko Noegroho, Ferry Safridai, Gerhard Reinaldi Situmorang, Raden Yohana, Astrid Feinisa Khairani
31 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT evaluation in men enrolled in prostate cancer Active Surveillance Pietro Pepe, Ludovica Pepe, Marinella Tamburo, Giulia Marletta, Francesco Savoca, Michele Pennisi, Filippo Fraggetta
35 Safety and tolerability of biodegradable balloon spacers in patients undergoing radiotherapy for organ-confined prostate cancer Luca Topazio, Federico Narcisi, Fabio Tana, Cosimo Ciotta, Iossa Vincenzo, Pasquale Perna, Francesco Chiaramonti, Federico Romantini
39 Enhanced recovery after retrograde intra-renal surgery (RIRS) in comparison with mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (Mini-PCNL) for renal stone treatment Vladimir Vorobev, Vladimir Beloborodov, Temirlan Hovalyg, Igor Seminskiy, Andrey Sherbatykh, Igor Shaderkin, Mikhail Firsov
47 Comparison of commonly utilized ureteral access sheaths: A prospective randomized trial Mohamed Elsaqa, Zain Hyder, Kim Thai, Katherine Dowd, Amr El Mekresh, Kristofer Wagner, Belur Patel, Patrick Lowry, Marawan M. El Tayeb
51 Variation of inflammatory indexes in patients with chronic abacterial prostatitis treated with an herbal compound/extract Luca Cindolo, Andrea Fabiani, Daniele Vitelli, Filippo Cianci, Lorenzo Gatti, Nicola Ghidini, Nikolas Niek Ntep, Rosario Calarco Piazza, Alessandra Filosa, Giovanni Ferrari
57 Oncological outcomes of papillary versus clear cell renal cell carcinoma in pT1 and pT2 stage: Results from a contemporary Turkish patient cohort Taha Cetin, Serdar Celik, Sinan Sozen, Bulent Akdogan, Volkan Izol, Guven Aslan, Evren Suer, Yildirim Bayazit, Nihat Karakoyunlu, Haluk Ozen, Sumer Baltaci, Fatih Gokalp, Ilker Tinay, Members of Turkish Urooncology Association
61 Chronic prostatitis as possible risk factor for Peyronie's disease: Psychological, sexual and prostatitis-like symptoms in patients with PD Gianni Paulis, Andrea Paulis
69 Treatment outcome of Fournier's gangrene and its associated factors: A retrospective study Khaled Al-Kohlany, Khaled Baker, Faisal Ahmed, Murtadha Mohamed, Majdi Alshami, Mohamed Badheeb
74 Sexual dysfunctions of rheumatological patients are a neglected issue: Results from a national survey of Italian Society of Rheumatology Luigi Napolitano, Ilenia Pantano, Lorenzo Romano, Luigi Cirillo, Celeste Manfredi, Francesco Mastrangelo, Giovanni Maria Fusco, Daniele Mauro, Lorenzo Spirito, Roberto La Rocca, Davide Arcaniolo, Corrado Aniello Franzese, Carmine Sciorio, Marco Romano, Marco De Sio, Vincenzo Mirone, Francesco Ciccia continued on page III