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| Gianluigi TavernaSummaryAffiliation: Istituto Clinico Humanitas Country: Italy Publications
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Single small focus of prostate adenocarcinoma (< or = 1 mm and too small for grading) and clinical significant disease after radical prostatectomyGianluigi Taverna
Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano Milano, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 78:57-60. 2006..and too small for grading) at needle biopsy, even repeated, and through prostate specific antigen (PSA), PSA density (PSAD) and free-to-total PSA ratio (f/t ratio)...
Fractal analysis of two-dimensional vascularity in primary prostate cancer and surrounding non-tumoral parenchymaGianluigi Taverna
Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, 20089 Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Pathol Res Pract 205:438-44. 2009..031). The patients in group 2 had a poorer outcome. Our findings suggest a group of prostate cancer patients with a poor outcome, and the vascular surface fractal dimension as a helpful geometrical index in clinical practice...- Retropubic nerve and seminal sparing radical prostatectomy for recurrent bladder neck-prostatic urethra stricturesPierpaolo Graziotti
Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 77:181-4. 2005.... - Incidence and treatment of complications in nephron sparing surgeryMauro Seveso
Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 77:206-10. 2005..The aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence and treatment of complications of this technique in our experience... - Colour Doppler and microbubble contrast agent ultrasonography do not improve cancer detection rate in transrectal systematic prostate biopsy samplingGianluigi Taverna
Department of Urology, IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
BJU Int 108:1723-7. 2011..The limited accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and the additional cost of using the contrast agent do not justify its routine application in PC detection... 
Can a Gleason 6 or Less Microfocus of Prostate Cancer in One Biopsy and Prostate-Specific Antigen Level <10 ng/mL Be Defined as the Archetype of Low-Risk Prostate Disease?Gianluigi Taverna
Department of Urology, IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
J Oncol 2012:645146. 2012..Considering a single micro-focus of PC at the biopsy and PSA serum level <10 ng/mL, clinically significant disease was found in 74.26% patients and only positive surgical margins are useful for predicting the BR...- Evaluation of complications and results in a contemporary series of 300 consecutive radical retropubic prostatectomies with the anatomic approach at a single institutionMassimo Maffezzini
Urology Unit, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano-Milano, Italy
Urology 61:982-6. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Radical retropubic prostatectomy is associated with low complication rates; with the anatomic approach, a limited incidence of incontinence is attainable, consistent with major referral centers... - Percutaneous nephrolithotomy: tubeless or not tubeless?Guido Giusti
Stone Center at Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, IRCCS, Studi Medici Est, Milan, Italy
Urol Res 37:153-8. 2009..As such, at our institution, tubeless PCNL has become routine procedure that actually is feasible in almost two-third of renal calculi suitable for percutaneous treatment... - Nephron sparing surgery of parenchymal kidney tumours in solitary kidneyMauro Seveso
Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 79:12-6. 2007.... - Bladder metastases of appendiceal mucinous adenocarcinoma: a case presentationGianluigi Taverna
Department of Urology, Via Manzoni 56 20089 Rozzano, Milan, Italy
BMC Cancer 10:62. 2010..Appendiceal adenocarcinoma is rare with a frequency of 0.08% of all surgically removed appendices. Few cases of appendiceal carcinoma infiltrating the bladder wall for spatial contiguity have been documented... - Tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy: Our experienceGuido Giusti
Stone Center, Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, IRCCS, Rozzano, Milano, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 82:34-6. 2010..To evaluate safety and outcomes of tubeless PCNL in comparison with standard PCNL... - Corporoplasty by plication: out patient surgery for the correction of penile curvatureMauro Seveso
Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Unità Operativa di Urologia, Rozzano, Milano, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 82:164-6. 2010..The aim of this study was to assess long-term functional and cosmetic results of this approach done in an outpatient environment... - Retrograde endopyelotomy using the holmium laser: technical aspects and functional resultsMauro Seveso
Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 77:10-2. 2005..Endopyelotomy is considered standard treatment for primary and secondary ureteropelvic junction obstruction. The aim of this study is to report our initial experience with the retrograde endopyelotomy technique... - A simple mathematical approach to calculate blood loss in radical prostatectomyRodolfo Hurle
Department of Urology, Cliniche Gavazzeni, Bergamo, Italy
Urol Int 72:135-9. 2004..Preoperative autologous blood augmentation strategies may not be routinely needed for patients with a basal hematocrit of >40%... - Miniperc? No, thank you!Guido Giusti
Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, IRCCS, Via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 51:810-4; discussion 815. 2007..The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the results of our miniperc series through comparison with results from standard percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) and tubeless PNL series in the treatment of stones <2 cm in diameter... - A single injection of lidocaine as local anesthesia for ultrasound guided needle biopsy of the prostateGianluigi Taverna
Department of Urology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (Milan, Italy
J Urol 167:222-3. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: A single injection of local anesthesia for prostatic biopsy proved to be efficient, well tolerated by patients and effective for decreasing the pain associated with the procedure... - PSA repeatedly fluctuating levels are reassuring enough to avoid biopsy?Gianluigi Taverna
Department of Urology Service, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 81:203-8. 2009.... - Geometry of human vascular system: is it an obstacle for quantifying antiangiogenic therapies?Fabio Grizzi
Laboratories of Quantitative Medicine, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, IRCCS, Via Manzoni 56 20089 Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 15:134-9. 2007..We discuss here the tumor-induced vascular system as a fractal object, and what changes this new way of observing may bring to the quantification of effective antiangiogenic therapies...