Impact of COVID-19 on Uro-Oncological Patients: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature

F Gavi, PE Santoro, C Amantea, P Russo, F Marino… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on patients with
urological malignancies (prostate cancer, bladder and upper tract urothelial cancer, kidney …

A systematic review and meta-analysis on delaying surgery for urothelial carcinoma of bladder and upper tract urothelial carcinoma: Implications for the COVID19 …

JJ Leow, WS Tan, WP Tan, TW Tan, VWS Chan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has led to competing strains on hospital resources and
healthcare personnel. Patients with newly diagnosed invasive urothelial carcinomas of …

Long-term outcomes of image-guided ablation and laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for T1 renal cell carcinoma

VWS Chan, FH Osman, J Cartledge, W Gregory… - European …, 2022 - Springer
Objective To compare long-term outcomes and peri-operative outcomes of image-guided
ablation (IGA) and laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN). Material and methods This is a …

Can We Identify Patients in Danger of Delayed Treatment? Management of COVID-19 Pandemic Backlog in Urology Care in Poland

JM Ratajczak, A Gawrońska, M Fischer… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic had a tremendous impact on healthcare systems around the
world. This study aims to research the course of surgical treatment in urology during the …

The changing trends of image-guided biopsy of small renal masses before intervention—an analysis of European multinational prospective EuRECA registry

VWS Chan, FX Keeley Jr, B Lagerveld, DJ Breen… - European …, 2022 - Springer
Objectives To evaluate the use of pre-cryoablation biopsy for small renal masses (SRMs)
and the effects of increasing uptake on histological results of treated SRMs. Methods From …

Psychological distress in patients treated for renal cell carcinoma: a systematic literature review

L Vartolomei, M Schmidinger, MD Vartolomei… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: The incidence of psychological distress and its impact on renal cell
carcinoma (RCC) patients is unclear. Our aim was to analyze the literature regarding the …

A Narrative Review on Robotic Surgery as Treatment for Renal Cell Carcinoma with Inferior Vena Cava Thrombus

MS Shah, KR Wang, YB Shah, R Ragam… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a common diagnosis, of which a notable portion of patients
present with an extension into the venous circulation causing an inferior vena cava (IVC) …

[PDF][PDF] Gawro nska, A.; Fischer, M.; Hladun, T.; Marczak, M. Can We Identify Patients in Danger of Delayed Treat-ment? Management of COVID-19 Pandemic Backlog …

JM Ratajczak - Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 2022 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The COVID-19 pandemic had a tremendous impact on healthcare systems around the
world. This study aims to research the course of surgical treatment in urology during the …

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma and disease stage at presentation

WCI Janes, MG Fagan, JM Andrews… - Canadian …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
INTRODUCTION Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is often associated with significant morbidity
and mortality, with overall survival contingent on multiple factors—most importantly, disease …

Image-Guided Ablation of Renal Masses: Challenges to Produce High-Quality Evidence and Future Directions

VWS Chan, HHL Ng, TM Wah - Seminars in Interventional …, 2024 - thieme-connect.com
Image-guided ablation (IGA) is a rapidly developing field in interventional oncology. There is
some evidence suggesting IGA's non-inferiority compared with partial or radical …