Small cell carcinoma of the bladder: a case report and a literature reviewOrietta Dalpiaz
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
Arch Esp Urol 56:197-202. 2003
..The management that seems to give a better survival is the combination of radical cystectomy (or radiotherapy) and chemotherapy...
- Renal vein and vena cava involvement does not affect prognosis in patients with renal cell carcinoma
V Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
Oncology 61:10-5. 2001
..The aim of this study is to report our experience with radical surgery in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) extending into the renal vein or subdiaphragmatic vena cava...
- Treatment of varicocele in subfertile men: The Cochrane Review--a contrary opinion
Vincenzo Ficarra
Italian Varicocele Study Group of the Italian Society of Andrology SIA, Italy
Eur Urol 49:258-63. 2006
..The aim of the present study is to address criticisms of this review carrying out a critical analysis of all available RCTs...
- Original and reviewed nuclear grading according to the Fuhrman system: a multivariate analysis of 388 patients with conventional renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Cancer 103:68-75. 2005
..The objective of the current study was to evaluate the reproducibility of the Fuhrman nuclear grading system as well as its independent predictive value in a series of patients with conventional renal cell carcinoma (RCC)...
- Proposal for reclassification of the TNM staging system in patients with locally advanced (pT3-4) renal cell carcinoma according to the cancer-related outcome
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Ospedale Policlinico G B Rossi, Verona, Italy
Eur Urol 51:722-9; discussion 729-31. 2007
..We evaluated the prognosis of patients with locally advanced RCC and identified a new model to stratify their outcome...
- Psycho-social well-being and general health status after surgical treatment for localized renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
Int Urol Nephrol 34:441-6. 2002
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- Predictive pathological factors of lymph nodes involvement in the squamous cell carcinoma of the penis
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
Int Urol Nephrol 34:245-50. 2002
..To evaluate the predictive role of primary tumor histopathological features in predicting inguinal lymph nodes involvement in patients with penile squamous cell carcinoma...
- Incidental detection beyond pathological factors as prognostic predictor of renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Cattedra e Divisione Clinicizzata di Urologia, Universita di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico, Piazzale L Scuro 37134, Verona, Italy
Eur Urol 43:663-9. 2003
..To evaluate the prognostic significance of different detection modalities of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in a large cohort of patients who had been previously submitted to surgery in two teaching hospitals in Italy...
- Local treatment of penile squamous cell carcinoma
Vincenzp Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
Urol Int 69:169-73. 2002
..The local recurrence rates seem higher than radical surgery and the functional and aesthetic results are not excellent in all cases. Moreover, radiotherapy seems to have a negligible percentage of local complications...
- Prognostic value of renal cell carcinoma nuclear grading: multivariate analysis of 333 cases
V Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
Urol Int 67:130-4. 2001
..To evaluate the independent predictive value of the nuclear grading system according to Fuhrman in relation to the disease-specific survival of patients with renal clear cell carcinoma...
- Antegrade scrotal sclerotherapy and varicocele
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, 37134 Verona Italy
Asian J Androl 4:221-4. 2002
..Testicular athrophy is a rare event (0.6%). This technique offers a considerable cost reduction compared to other therapeutic options currently available for varicocele...
- Prognostic factors in patients with renal cell carcinoma: retrospective analysis of 675 cases
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, Ospedale Policlinico, Verona, Italy
Eur Urol 41:190-8. 2002
..To identify independent predictors of cause-specific survival in patients affected by renal cell carcinoma (RCC)...
- High flow priapism due to a bilateral arteriosinusoidal fistula--an unusual conservative treatment
V Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
Scand J Urol Nephrol 35:418-9. 2001
..The authors report a rare case of high flow priapism due to a bilateral arteriosinusoidal fistula conservatively treated. Twenty months after the treatment the patient claimed to have a normal sexual activity...
- Antegrade scrotal sclerotherapy in the treatment of varicocele: a prospective study
V Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
BJU Int 89:264-8. 2002
..To assess the results of our experience in correcting primary varicocele using a modified technique of antegrade scrotal sclerotherapy...
- Diagnostic utility of S100A1 expression in renal cell neoplasms: an immunohistochemical and quantitative RT-PCR study
Paolo Cossu Rocca
Department of Pathology, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Mod Pathol 20:722-8. 2007
..Further, S100A1 protein expression is constantly detected in the normal parenchyma of the adult and fetal kidney...
- Multi-institutional validation of a new renal cancer-specific survival nomogram
Pierre I Karakiewicz
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Clin Oncol 25:1316-22. 2007
..We tested the hypothesis that the prediction of renal cancer-specific survival can be improved if traditional predictor variables are used within a prognostic nomogram...
- ECOG performance status 0 or 1 and symptom classification do not improve the ability to predict renal cell carcinoma-specific survival
Pierre I Karakiewicz
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center CHUM, 1058, rue St Denis, Montreal, Que, Canada H2X 3J4
Eur J Cancer 43:1023-9. 2007
..We tested and compared the improvement in prognostic ability related to the consideration of either ECOG performance status (ECOGPS) and/or symptom classification (S-CLASS) in renal cell carcinoma specific mortality (RCC-SM) predictions...
- Prognostic factors in squamous cell carcinoma of the penis
Giacomo Novara
Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padua, Monoblocco Ospedaliero, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
Nat Clin Pract Urol 4:140-6. 2007
..This article focuses on the most important issues that surround the prognosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the penis, with special attention to the prognostic nomograms for penile cancer patients published in 2006...
- Collecting duct renal cell carcinoma: a matched analysis of 41 cases
Pierre I Karakiewicz
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcome Unit, University of Montreal Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Eur Urol 52:1140-5. 2007
..We assessed the stage and histologic features of patients with CDRCC and compared cancer-specific mortality in CDRCC and matched patients with clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (CRCC)...
Validation by calibration of the UCLA integrated staging system prognostic model for nonmetastatic renal cell carcinoma after nephrectomyLuca Cindolo
Urology Unit, G Rummo Hospital, Benevento, Italy
Cancer 113:65-71. 2008
..The objective of the current study was to evaluate the calibration of the UISS prognostic score in a European multicenter retrospective study...
- Prognostic relevance of tumour size in T3a renal cell carcinoma: a multicentre experience
John S Lam
Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, California 90095 1738, USA
Eur Urol 52:155-62. 2007
..To evaluate the prognostic role of tumour size in pathological stage T3a renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with fat invasion only and to assess whether this subgroup maintains its relevance over the other pathological stages...
- Prognostic ability of simplified nuclear grading of renal cell carcinoma
Nathalie Rioux-Leclercq
Department of Pathology, Rennes Hospital, Rennes, France
Cancer 109:868-74. 2007
..The predictive accuracy of various Fuhrman grading schemes was tested with the intent of improving the prediction of RCC-specific survival (RCC-SS)...
- Renal cell carcinoma with nodal metastases in the absence of distant metastatic disease: prognostic indicators of disease-specific survival
Pierre I Karakiewicz
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcome Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Department of Urology, Rennes University Hospital, France
Eur Urol 51:1616-24. 2007
..We explored the ability of standard risk factors such as tumour size, Fuhrman grade, histologic subtype and symptom classification to predict renal cell carcinoma-specific survival (RCC-SS)...
- Relationship between age at diagnosis and clinicopathologic features of renal cell carcinoma
Gregory Verhoest
Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
Eur Urol 51:1298-304; discussion 1304-5. 2007
..To analyse the influence of age at diagnosis on tumour characteristics and cancer-specific survival in renal cell carcinoma (RCC)...
- Open radical nephrectomy versus open partial nephrectomy: is it still an issue?
Vincenzo Ficarra
Eur Urol 51:593-5. 2007
- Prognostic impact of tumor size on pT2 renal cell carcinoma: an international multicenter experience
Tobias Klatte
Department of Urology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1738, USA, and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
J Urol 178:35-40; discussion 40. 2007
..We examined the current pT2 tumor classification of renal cell carcinoma and determined whether a tumor size cutoff exists that would improve prognostic accuracy...
- TNM staging system for renal-cell carcinoma: current status and future perspectives
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Lancet Oncol 8:554-8. 2007
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- Risk stratification and prognostication of renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padua, Monoblocco Ospedaliero IV Floor, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy
World J Urol 26:115-25. 2008
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- Editorial comment on: recurrence patterns of squamous cell carcinoma of the penis: recommendations for follow-up based on a two-centre analysis of 700 patients
Vincenzo Ficarra
Eur Urol 54:168-9. 2008
- Mathematical models for prognostic prediction in patients with renal cell carcinoma
Antonio Galfano
Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Urol Int 80:113-23. 2008
..The objectives of this study are to catalogue all models developed to predict survival of RCC patients and to identify the ones to be used in different situations...
- Surgical outcomes after modified antegrade scrotal sclerotherapy: a prospective analysis of 700 consecutive patients with idiopathic varicocele
Antonio Galfano
Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
J Urol 179:1933-7. 2008
..We analyzed the surgical outcomes of antegrade scrotal sclerotherapy in a large, prospective, multisurgeon, consecutive series of patients treated for idiopathic varicocele...
- How accurately do Solsona and European Association of Urology risk groups predict for risk of lymph node metastases in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis?
Giacomo Novara
Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Urology 71:328-33. 2008
..To compare the prognostic accuracy of the Solsona and European Association of Urology (EAU) risk groups in the identification of lymph node involvement in a cohort of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis...
- Editorial comment on: core biopsies of renal tumors: a study on diagnostic accuracy, interobserver, and intraobserver variability
Vincenzo Ficarra
Eur Urol 53:1226-7. 2008
- Patients with distant metastases from renal cell carcinoma can be accurately identified: external validation of a new nomogram
Georg C Hutterer
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BJU Int 101:39-43. 2008
..To identify clinical variables that can accurately predict the presence of distant metastases in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC)...
- Loss of chromosome 9p is an independent prognostic factor in patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Matteo Brunelli
Department of Pathology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Mod Pathol 21:1-6. 2008
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- Independent predictors of cancer-specific survival in transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract: multi-institutional dataset from 3 European centers
Giacomo Novara
Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urology Clinic, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Cancer 110:1715-22. 2007
..The objective of the current study was to identify variables that were predictive of cancer-specific survival in patients with nonmetastatic transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract (UUT-TCC)...
- Patients with renal cell carcinoma nodal metastases can be accurately identified: external validation of a new nomogram
Georg C Hutterer
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
Int J Cancer 121:2556-61. 2007
..More thorough staging can hopefully better select those in whom adjuvant treatment is necessary. (c) 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc...
- A new staging system for locally advanced (pT3-4) renal cell carcinoma: a multicenter European study including 2,000 patients
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
J Urol 178:418-24; discussion 423-4. 2007
..We provide an adequate prognostic stratification for locally advanced renal cell carcinoma and propose a new TNM classification...
- Unclassified renal cell carcinoma: an analysis of 85 cases
Pierre I Karakiewicz
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BJU Int 100:802-8. 2007
..To compare cancer-specific mortality in patients with unclassified renal cell carcinoma (URCC) vs clear cell RCC (CRCC) after nephrectomy, as URCC is a rare but very aggressive histological subtype...
- Nomogram predictive of cancer specific survival in patients undergoing partial or total amputation for squamous cell carcinoma of the penis
Michael W Kattan
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
J Urol 175:2103-8; discussion 2108. 2006
..These nomograms could improve the quality of prognostic data provided to patients and support physicians in planning treatment...
- Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma: comprehensive analysis of 104 cases from multicenter European database
Luca Cindolo
Urology Unit, G Rummo Hospital, Benevento, Italy
Urology 65:681-6. 2005
..In 1985, CRCC was identified as a new RCC histologic subtype. Because of its low frequency, only few large CRCC series are available...
- Correlation between clinical and pathological staging in a series of radical cystectomies for bladder carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
BJU Int 95:786-90. 2005
..001). All patients designated cN+ were also pN+. CONCLUSION: These data confirm the high risk of clinical understaging of both local extension of the primary tumour and lymph node involvement...
- Symptoms as well as tumor size provide prognostic information on patients with localized renal tumors
Jean-Jacques Patard
Department of Urology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
J Urol 172:2167-71. 2004
..Our data support the idea that symptoms should be integrated in further modifications of the TNM system...
- Neoplasm staging and organ-confined renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review
Vincenzo Ficarra
Cattedra e Divisione Clinicizzata di Urologia, Universita di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico, Piazzale Ludovico Scuro, 37134 Verona, Italy
Eur Urol 46:559-64. 2004
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- Multi-institutional validation of a symptom based classification for renal cell carcinoma
Jean Jacques Patard
Department of Urology, Rennes University Hospital, CHU Pontchaillou, rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes, France
J Urol 172:858-62. 2004
..We validate the prognostic value of a symptom based classification (S classification) in a multi-institutional study...
- Use of the University of California Los Angeles integrated staging system to predict survival in renal cell carcinoma: an international multicenter study
Jean-Jacques Patard
Department of Urology, Rennes University Hospital, France
J Clin Oncol 22:3316-22. 2004
..Although the UISS may be useful for patients with metastatic RCC, it may be less accurate in this subset of patients due to the heterogeneity of patients and treatments...
- Application of TNM, 2002 version, in localized renal cell carcinoma: is it able to predict different cancer-specific survival probability?
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Urology 63:1050-4. 2004
..To verify whether the latest version of the TNM staging system (2002) could predict different cancer-specific survival in patients with localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC; Stage T1-T2N0M0)...
- Safety and efficacy of partial nephrectomy for all T1 tumors based on an international multicenter experience
Jean-Jacques Patard
Department of Urology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1738, USA
J Urol 171:2181-5, quiz 2435. 2004
..This large multicenter study suggests that it is safe to expand the indications of partial nephrectomy to include patients with T1N0M0 tumors up to 7 cm. However, careful patient selection remains necessary...
- Tumor-size breakpoint for prognostic stratification of localized renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Urology 63:235-9; discussion 239-40. 2004
..The data obtained by analyzing a large cohort of consecutive patients should be validated by other large series with the prospective of redefining the TNM staging system...
- Prognostic value of histologic subtypes in renal cell carcinoma: a multicenter experience
Jean-Jacques Patard
Department of Urology, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France
J Clin Oncol 23:2763-71. 2005
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- Lymphatic and vascular embolizations are independent predictive variables of inguinal lymph node involvement in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis: Gruppo Uro-Oncologico del Nord Est (Northeast Uro-Oncological Group) Penile Cancer data bas
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Cancer 103:2507-16. 2005
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- Nomogram predictive of pathological inguinal lymph node involvement in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
J Urol 175:1700-4; discussion 1704-5. 2006
..We generated a nomogram estimating the risk of pathological inguinal lymph node involvement according to clinical lymph node stage and pathological findings of the primary tumor...
- Tumor size improves the accuracy of TNM predictions in patients with renal cancer
Pierre I Karakiewicz
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal, Montreal, Que, Canada
Eur Urol 50:521-8; discussion 529. 2006
..We examined the increment in accuracy related to inclusion of pathologically determined tumor size in prediction of nodal metastases (N+), distant metastases (M+), and cancer-specific survival (CSS)...
- External validation of the Mayo Clinic Stage, Size, Grade and Necrosis (SSIGN) score to predict cancer specific survival using a European series of conventional renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
J Urol 175:1235-9. 2006
..We validated the Mayo Clinic SSIGN score in an independent European sample of patients who were surgically treated for conventional RCC...
- Primary lymphoma of the kidney. Report of a case and update of the literature
Antonio Benito Porcaro
Divisione Clinicizzata di Urologia, Ospedale Policlinico G. Rossi, Verona, Italia
Arch Ital Urol Androl 74:44-7. 2002
..Survival is extremely poor since 75% of patients die less than 1 year after operation. Prognosis may be improved by early detection of disease and by performing systemic chemotherapy...
- Staging system of renal cell carcinoma: current issues
Vincenzo Ficarra
Eur Urol 49:223-5. 2006
- Proposal for revision of the TNM classification system for renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Cancer 104:2116-23. 2005
..The current study defined an optimal tumor size breakpoint to stratify localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC) into groups with significantly different cancer-related outcomes and proposed a revision of the TNM classification system...
- The potential impact of prostate volume in the planning of optimal number of cores in the systematic transperineal prostate biopsy
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Policlinico GB Rossi, Italy
Eur Urol 48:932-7. 2005
..We compared the detection rates of different transperineal prostate biopsy protocols with the aim to optimize the number of cores to sample according to prostate volume...
- Comparison of predictive accuracy of four prognostic models for nonmetastatic renal cell carcinoma after nephrectomy: a multicenter European study
Luca Cindolo
Urology Unit, G Rummo Hospital, Benevento, Italy
Cancer 104:1362-71. 2005
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- Prognostic factors in a recent series of patients treated with radical cystectomy for bladder cancer
Giacomo Novara
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Italy
Urol Int 75:10-6. 2005
..Our multivariate analysis data identified pT3-4 and pN+ patients as those with the worst prognosis...
- Multiinstitutional European validation of the 2002 TNM staging system in conventional and papillary localized renal cell carcinoma
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Cancer 104:968-74. 2005
..The current study validated the 2002 edition of the TNM staging system in a multicenter, multinational European series of localized renal cell carcinoma (RCC)...
- Independent predictors of metachronous bladder transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) after nephroureterectomy for TCC of the upper urinary tract
Giacomo Novara
IRCCS Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV, Padua, Italy
BJU Int 101:1368-74. 2008
..To identify the prognostic factors predictive of metachronous bladder transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) in a multi-institutional dataset of patients who had undergone nephroureterectomy (NU) for nonmetastatic upper urinary tract (UUT) TCC...
- Is laparoscopic radical prostatectomy better than traditional retropubic radical prostatectomy? An analysis of peri-operative morbidity in two contemporary series in Italy
Walter Artibani
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Eur Urol 44:401-6. 2003
..To compare morbidity in two groups of patients who underwent retropubic or laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in the same period...
- Prognostic role of the histologic subtypes of renal cell carcinoma after slide revision
Vincenzo Ficarra
Department of Urology, University of Verona, Ospedale Policlinico GB Rossi, Italy
Eur Urol 50:786-93; discussion 793-4. 2006
..To evaluate concordance, using the kappa statistic, between tumour histotypes assigned at initial diagnosis and those after slide revision, and to assess the independent predictive value of reviewed tumour histotype...
- CD10 is expressed in a subset of chromophobe renal cell carcinomas
Guido Martignoni
Anatomia Patologica, Universita di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Mod Pathol 17:1455-63. 2004
..04). Parvalbumin was strongly expressed in all primary and metastatic chromophobe renal cell carcinomas. Western blot analysis was utilized to confirm the expression of both CD10 and parvalbumin in chromophobe renal cell carcinomas...
