Screening for metabolic syndrome and testosterone deficiency in patients with erectile dysfunction: results from the first UK prospective studyBhaskar Somani
Department of Urology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
BJU Int 106:688-90. 2010
....
- Successful embolization of symptomatic renal artery aneurysm in solitary kidney
B K Somani
Department of Urology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Urology 65:795-6. 2005
- Quality of life and body image for bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystectomy and urinary diversion--a prospective cohort study with a systematic review of literature
Bhaskar K Somani
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK
Urology 74:1138-43. 2009
..Patients with advanced bladder cancer who undergo cystectomy and UD face potential serious morbidity (25%-40%) and a small risk of mortality (0%-4%). The systematic review compares QoL and body image for different types of diversions...
- How close are we to knowing whether orthotopic bladder replacement surgery is the new gold standard?--evidence from a systematic review update
Bhaskar K Somani
Department of Urology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Urology 74:1331-9. 2009
..Urinary diversion is designed to improve or replace the function of the diseased urinary bladder...
- Photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) for upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (UT-TCC): evolution of a new technique
B K Somani
Department of Urology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK
Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther 7:39-43. 2010
..We did fluorescence ureteroscopy using oral 5-ALA to diagnose upper tract urothelial tumours for four patients. Here we describe this technique and assess its feasibility to diagnose ureteric and renal pelvicalyceal tumours...
- Endovascular control of haemorrhagic urological emergencies: an observational study
Bhaskar K Somani
Department of Urology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Hospital, Grampian NHS Trust, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
BMC Urol 6:27. 2006
..Specifically, we aimed to assess the impact of timing of embolisation on the requirement of blood transfusion and long-term morphological and functional follow-up of embolised organs...
- Decreasing the cost of flexible ureterorenoscopic procedures
Bhaskar K Somani
Department of Urology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
Urology 78:528-30. 2011
..To treat calculus disease, perform diagnostic procedures, for endoscopic management of upper tract tumours and in selected cases for laser guided endopyelotomy there is an increase in the use of Flexible Ureterorenoscopy (FURS)...
- Spontaneous life-threatening perirenal haemorrhage: an uncommon urological emergency
B K Somani
Department of Urology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK
Emerg Radiol 12:55-6. 2005
..Radiology 172:733, 1989) and Zagoria et al. (J Urol 145:468, 1991). Reported is a case of spontaneous perirenal haemorrhage diagnosed on computed tomography scan and then successfully embolized using coils...
- Giant fibrovascular polyp of the oesophagus
Bhaskar K Somani
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 28:643. 2005
- Successful management of an "overlooked" ureteral stent in a transplant kidney
Bhaskar K Somani
Department of Urology, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, United Kingdom
Urology 72:1012. 2008
..The authors present a case of successful management of an encrusted ureteral stent in a transplant kidney using cystolitholapaxy and percutaneous nephrolithotomy with electromechanical lithotripsy...
- Irrigant flow and intrarenal pressure during flexible ureteroscopy: the effect of different access sheaths, working channel instruments, and hydrostatic pressure
Yeung H Ng
Department of Urology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland
J Endourol 24:1915-20. 2010
..Our aim was to determine the optimal size of access sheath for ureteroscopy and stone lasertripsy to achieve good irrigant flow while maintaining the lowest possible intrarenal pressure...
- Is percutaneous drainage the new gold standard in the management of emphysematous pyelonephritis? Evidence from a systematic review
Bhaskar K Somani
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
J Urol 179:1844-9. 2008
..We review the current management strategies including the role of nephron preserving percutaneous drainage in the treatment of emphysematous pyelonephritis...
- Bowel dysfunction after transposition of intestinal segments into the urinary tract: 8-year prospective cohort study
Bhaskar K Somani
Academic Urology Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
J Urol 177:1793-8. 2007
..We now describe bowel symptoms in this same cohort 8 years later (2005)...
- Therapeutic transarterial embolisation in the management of benign and malignant renal conditions
B K Somani
Department of Urology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, AB25 2WA, UK
Surgeon 4:348-52. 2006
..CONCLUSION: Renal artery embolisation is effective in managing haematuria in benign and malignant renal conditions where indicated, with minor and easily treatable adverse effects..
- Good quality white-light transurethral resection of bladder tumours (GQ-WLTURBT) with experienced surgeons performing complete resections and obtaining detrusor muscle reduces early recurrence in new non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: validation across t
Paramananthan Mariappan
Department of Urology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Department of Urology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen Department of Pathology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
BJU Int 109:1666-73. 2012
..This study aims to validate surgeon experience and detrusor muscle as independent predictors of early recurrence following apparently complete white light TURBT in new bladder tumours...
- Outcomes of scrotal exploration for acute scrotal pain suspicious of testicular torsion: a consecutive case series of 173 patients
Chidi N Molokwu
Department of Urology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK
BJU Int 107:990-3. 2011
..To determine the surgical outcome of all scrotal explorations performed on patients presenting with acute scrotal pain suspicious of testicular torsion...
- Herpetiform cutaneous metastases from transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder: immunohistochemical analysis
B K Somani
Department of Urology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Hospital, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
J Clin Pathol 59:1331-3. 2006
..The band-like eruption of the metastatic lesion can often be misdiagnosed and treated initially as herpes zoster. A detailed immunohistochemical analysis is also described to differentiate metastatic lesions from other sources...
- Incidental renal tumours: the frequency of benign lesions and the role of preoperative core biopsy
Bhaskar K Somani
BJU Int 98:465-6. 2006
- Surgicel granuloma mimicking a renal tumour
Bhaskar K Somani
Surgery 139:451. 2006
