ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - At this podium session, Dr. Adam Callaway presented a study looking at national trends in adrenalectomy with regards to surgeon and surgical approach type, and factors impacting surgical approach.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Exposure to ionizing radiation during endourological procedures is a significant hazard in the career of a urologist.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - When patients present to the emergency room with acute renal colic, imaging is obtained for further evaluation and diagnosis. Computed tomography (CT) imaging is considered the gold standard imaging modality for urolithiasis and has increasingly been used to exclude other diagnoses and confirm urinary stone disease.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - The efficacy of percutaneous interventions depends greatly on the accuracy of guidance. This is achieved most often using ultrasound, fluoroscopy, and/or computed tomography (CT). Here, Ukimura and colleagues report on the first application of a navigation system using GPS technology and preoperative CT imaging to facilitate percutaneous targeting.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Anterior urethral stricture disease most commonly presents with manifestations of urinary obstruction; lower urinary tract pain (LUTP) is not commonly reported as a presenting symptom.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Melise Keays from the Children’s Medical Center in Dallas (University of Texas, Southwestern) presented 2 observational studies on newborns with spina bifida. Both studies sought to characterize renal and bladder changes that may occur while low-risk patients are followed on an observational protocol for the first 3 years of life.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - The treatment of small renal masses (SRM’s) and localized kidney cancer has undergone significant changes over the last 2 decades.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - A new addition to the AUA meeting this year was a crossfire section, featuring debates. Speaking to a packed house, the panel debated a timely and hot topic, whether urologists should treat hormone resistant prostate cancer, or refer to medical oncology.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Over the past 20 years there has been a shift in the surgical management of adrenal lesions from open to different minimally invasive techniques: multi-port conventional laparoscopy, robotics and laparo-endoscopic single-site (LESS) surgery.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Multiple bladder cancer recurrences are more likely to occur in patients with high-risk disease. Association between recurrences and aggressive treatment in patients who have recurrent high-grade bladder cancer has not be reported.