EAU guidelines on penile cancer.

Reliability of radioisotope-guided sentinel lymph node biopsy in penile cancer: verification in consideration of the European guidelines

BACKGROUND Lymph node (LN) staging in penile cancer has strong prognostic implications. This contrasts with the high morbidity of extended inguinal LN dissection (LND) or over-treatment of many patients. Therefore, inguinal dynamic sentinel node biopsy (DSNB) or modified LND is recommended by the European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines to evaluate the nodal status of patients with clin...

EAU guidelines on penile curvature.

CONTEXT Penile curvature can be congenital or acquired. Acquired curvature is secondary due to La Peyronie (Peyronie's) disease. OBJECTIVE To provide clinical guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of penile curvature. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A systematic literature search on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of penile curvature was performed. Articles with the highest evidence ava...

Multicenter Investigation of the Micro-Organisms Involved in Penile Prosthesis Infection: An Analysis of the Efficacy of the AUA and EAU Guidelines for Penile Prosthesis Prophylaxis.

INTRODUCTION Penile prosthesis infections remain challenging despite advancements in surgical technique, device improvements, and adoption of antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines. AIM To investigate penile prosthesis infection microbiology to consider which changes in practice could decrease infection rates, to evaluate current antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines, and to develop a proposed algorit...

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EAU penile cancer guidelines 2009.

CONTEXT Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the penis is a relatively rare but ominous disease. OBJECTIVE To present a condensed version of the updated 2009 European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines on penile SCC. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION We performed a literature search of new data available up to December 2009. No randomized study was found; consequently, level of evidence (LE) and grade ...