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[Role of ultrasonography-guided prostatic biopsy of hypoechoic areas associated with systematic biopsies in patients with normal and high PSA levels]Vincenzo Scattoni
Dpt of Urology, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, 20145 Milan, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 74:273-5. 2002..The aim of the study is to evaluate the need to perform directed biopsies to hypoechoic areas at transrectal ultrasound associated with a prostatic mapping in patients with normal and elevated levels of PSA...- Predictors of prostate cancer after initial diagnosis of atypical small acinar proliferation at 10 to 12 core biopsiesVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University, School of Medicine, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Urology 66:1043-7. 2005..To evaluate the factors that predict prostate cancer detection by means of 10 to 12 core repeat biopsies in patients with atypical small acinar proliferation (ASAP) results on initial biopsy... - Detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer: what's newVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 77:173-9. 2005..We reviewed all the recent literature on the detection of clinically meaningful prostate cancer... - Detection of lymph-node metastases with integrated [11C]choline PET/CT in patients with PSA failure after radical retropubic prostatectomy: results confirmed by open pelvic-retroperitoneal lymphadenectomyVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 52:423-9. 2007..To prospectively evaluate the accuracy of integrated [(11)C]choline-PET/CT in the diagnosis of lymph-node recurrence in prostate cancer patients with biochemical failure after surgery... - Pathological changes of high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and prostate cancer after monotherapy with bicalutamide 150 mgVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
BJU Int 98:54-8. 2006..To evaluate the morphological changes induced by a 3-month course of neoadjuvant bicalutamide 150 mg/day before radical prostatectomy (RP) on prostatic adenocarcinoma and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN)... - Diagnosis of local recurrence after radical prostatectomyV Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
BJU Int 93:680-8. 2004..The value of salvage radiation to the prostatic bed for PSA-only progression after RP remains in question... - Multiple vesico-urethral biopsies following radical prostatectomy: the predictive roles of TRUS, DRE, PSA and the pathological stageVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, 20145 Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 44:407-14. 2003.... - [The economics of managing patients with prostate cancer]Vincenzo Scattoni
Divisione di Urologia, Università Vita Salute IRCCS San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 75:75-87. 2003..The aim of the paper is to report on the economics of managing patients with prostate cancer (PC)... - Extended and saturation prostatic biopsy in the diagnosis and characterisation of prostate cancer: a critical analysis of the literatureVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 52:1309-22. 2007..To review and critically analyse all the recent literature on the detection and characterisation of prostate cancer by means of extended and saturation protocols... - Biopsy schemes with the fewest cores for detecting 95% of the prostate cancers detected by a 24-core biopsyVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 57:1-8. 2010..The most efficient number and location of prostate biopsies remains a matter of debate... - Editorial comment on: Prostate biopsies guided by three-dimensional real-time (4-D) transrectal ultrasonography on a phantom: comparative study versus two-dimensional transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsiesVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita-Salute, Italy
Eur Urol 52:1104. 2007 - Initial extended transrectal prostate biopsy--are more prostate cancers detected with 18 cores than with 12 cores?Vincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
J Urol 179:1327-31; discussion 1331. 2008..We retrospectively investigated the detection rates of prostate cancer, high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and atypical glands suggestive of carcinoma by initial 18 and 12-core prostate biopsy... - Is extended and saturation biopsy necessary?Vincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Int J Urol 17:432-47. 2010..Nevertheless, the routine use of these methods is still under evaluation... - The optimal rebiopsy prostatic scheme depends on patient clinical characteristics: results of a recursive partitioning analysis based on a 24-core systematic schemeVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 60:834-41. 2011..The most beneficial number and the location of prostate biopsies remain matters of debate, especially after an initial negative biopsy... - Percent of free serum prostate-specific antigen and histological findings in patients undergoing open prostatectomy for benign prostatic hyperplasiaV Scattoni
Department of Urology, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 36:621-30. 1999.... - Atypical small acinar proliferation (ASAP) on extended prostatic biopsies: predictive factors of cancer detection on repeat biopsiesVincenzo Scattoni
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University, School of Medicine, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 77:31-6. 2005.... - Topical prilocaine-lidocaine cream combined with peripheral nerve block improves pain control in prostatic biopsy: results from a prospective randomized trialMarco Raber
Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, Universita Vita Salute, Cattedra di Urologia, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 53:967-73. 2008..To compare pain control results between periprostatic nerve block alone and combined with topical prilocaine-lidocaine cream as local anesthesia of prostate biopsy... - Monofocal and plurifocal high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia on extended prostate biopsies: factors predicting cancer detection on extended repeat biopsyMarco Roscigno
Department of Urology, Vita-Salute University School of Medicine, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Urology 63:1105-10. 2004..A 12 to 18-month interval before repeat biopsy could permit a significantly greater cancer detection rate, with no apparent likelihood of clinical cancer progression... - [Complications of multiple transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy of the prostate]M Raber
Divisione di Urologia, Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano
Arch Ital Urol Androl 72:249-53. 2000..In conclusion, whole complication rate is high, but the incidence of major complications is very low. The complications that need out-patient treatment are limited and acceptable... - [(11)C]choline uptake with PET/CT for the initial diagnosis of prostate cancer: relation to PSA levels, tumour stage and anti-androgenic therapyGiampiero Giovacchini
Center for Molecular Bioimaging, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 35:1065-73. 2008.... - Systematic assessment of the ability of the number and percentage of positive biopsy cores to predict pathologic stage and biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomyAlberto Briganti
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 52:733-43. 2007..To test this hypothesis, we examined radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) data from three centers on two continents... - Thermo-chemotherapy and electromotive drug administration of mitomycin C in superficial bladder cancer eradication. a pilot study on marker lesionR Colombo
Department of Urology, Scientific Institute, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 39:95-100. 2001..To draw preliminary considerations concerning the ablative effect on marker lesion using novel approaches compared to standard intravesical chemotherapy... - Diagnosis of prostate cancer. State of the artM Roscigno
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Minerva Urol Nefrol 56:123-45. 2004..The other imaging techniques actually play a marginal role in Pca detection, but may be useful for staging newly diagnosed Pca or in patient re-staging in case of biochemical failure after radical treatment... - Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate versus open prostatectomy for prostates >70 g: 24-month follow-upRichard Naspro
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 50:563-8. 2006.... - 11C-choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography for preoperative lymph-node staging in intermediate-risk and high-risk prostate cancer: comparison with clinical staging nomogramsRiccardo Schiavina
Department of Urology, University of Bologna, S Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Italy
Eur Urol 54:392-401. 2008..Conventional imaging (CI) techniques are inadequate for lymph node (LN) staging in prostate cancer (PCa)... - Validation of a nomogram predicting the probability of lymph node invasion among patients undergoing radical prostatectomy and an extended pelvic lymphadenectomyAlberto Briganti
Department of Urology, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 49:1019-26; discussion 1026-7. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: A nomogram based on pre-treatment PSA, clinical stage and biopsy Gleason sum can highly accurately predict LNI at ePLND... - Medical therapy of prostate cancer. A reviewM Roscigno
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University, San Raffaele Hospital, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy
Minerva Urol Nefrol 57:71-84. 2005.... - [Repeated ultrasound-guided transrectal prostate biopsy in patients with negative histologic test]M Raber
Divisione di Urologia, Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano
Arch Ital Urol Androl 72:197-9. 2000..PSA density, PSA velocity and the presence of ipoecoic areas previously biopsied, aren't risk factors for detection of prostate cancer at second bioptic session... - Systematic extended and saturation prostate biopsy: when and howV Scattoni
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University, H San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
Minerva Urol Nefrol 62:179-92. 2010..The histological issues has to be considered about patient's prognosis... - Predictive factors of [(11)C]choline PET/CT in patients with biochemical failure after radical prostatectomyGiampiero Giovacchini
Center for Molecular Bioimaging, University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 37:301-9. 2010..The role of other clinical and pathological variables has not been explored... - [11C]choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography to restage prostate cancer cases with biochemical failure after radical prostatectomy and no disease evidence on conventional imagingGiampiero Giovacchini
Center for Molecular Bioimaging, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
J Urol 184:938-43. 2010.... - Holmium laser enucleation versus open prostatectomy for benign prostatic hyperplasia: an inpatient cost analysisAndrea Salonia
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Scientific Institute San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Urology 68:302-6. 2006..To compare the cost of open transvesical prostatectomy (OP) with that of holmium laser enucleation (HoLEP) in the treatment of bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) attributed to benign prostatic hyperplasia... - Tissue-resonance interaction method for the noninvasive diagnosis of prostate cancer: analysis of a multicentre clinical evaluationLuigi Da Pozzo
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
BJU Int 100:1055-9. 2007.... - Radical prostatectomy for incidental (stage T1a-T1b) prostate cancer: analysis of predictors for residual disease and biochemical recurrenceUmberto Capitanio
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Scientific Institute Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 54:118-25. 2008..Controversies exist about the most appropriate management for patients with incidental prostate cancer after surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)... - Prognostic value of lymph node dissection in patients with muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tractMarco Roscigno
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 53:794-802. 2008..To analyze the prognostic role of lymphadenectomy (LND) in patients with muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the upper urinary tract (UUT) managed with radical surgery... - Comparison of the effect of sildenafil and apomorphine SL on nocturnal erections in healthy volunteers: a placebo-controlled studyAndrea Salonia
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 47:524-9; discussion 529. 2005..To compare the effects of sildenafil and sublingual (sl) apomorphine on nocturnal erections... - Perianal and intrarectal anaesthesia for transrectal biopsy of the prostate: a prospective randomized study comparing lidocaine-prilocaine cream and placeboMarco Raber
Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, Urology, Milan, Italy
BJU Int 96:1264-7. 2005..To assess the effectiveness of perianal and intrarectal lidocaine-prilocaine cream for prostate biopsy... - PSA doubling time for prediction of [(11)C]choline PET/CT findings in prostate cancer patients with biochemical failure after radical prostatectomyGiampiero Giovacchini
Center for Molecular Bioimaging, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 37:1106-16. 2010..This study compared PSA levels and PSA doubling time (PSADT) to predict [(11)C]choline PET/CT findings... - Need for high radiation dose (>or=70 gy) in early postoperative irradiation after radical prostatectomy: a single-institution analysis of 334 high-risk, node-negative patientsCesare Cozzarini
Department of Radiotherapy, Scientific Institute Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 75:966-74. 2009..To determine the clinical benefit of high-dose early adjuvant radiotherapy (EART) in high-risk prostate cancer (hrCaP) patients submitted to radical retropubic prostatectomy plus pelvic lymphadenectomy... - A reappraisal of the role of vesicourethral anastomosis biopsy in patient candidates for salvage radiation therapy after radical prostatectomyMarco Roscigno
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University, Milan, Italy
Radiother Oncol 82:30-7. 2007..To investigate the usefulness of vesicourethral anastomotic biopsy (VUBx) in patients who are candidates for salvage radiotherapy (SalvRT) after radical prostatectomy (RRP)... - Predictive models before and after radical prostatectomyUmberto Capitanio
Department of Urology, Hospital San Raffaele, University Vita Salute, Milan, Italy
Prostate 70:1371-8. 2010..In the last 10 years, several user-friendly predictive tools have been developed to help clinicians in decision-making process before and after radical prostatectomy... - Nerve-sparing radical retropubic prostatectomy in patients previously submitted to holmium laser enucleation of the prostate for bladder outlet obstruction due to benign prostatic enlargementNazareno Suardi
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 53:1180-5. 2008.... - Neoadjuvant CMV chemotherapy plus radical cystectomy in locally advanced bladder cancer: the impact of pathologic response on long-term resultsV Scattoni
Department of Urology, Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Tumori 82:463-9. 1996..The intrinsic chemoresistance or the suboptimal response to chemotherapy of bladder cancer remains the most adverse prognostic factor... - Critical assessment of ideal nodal yield at pelvic lymphadenectomy to accurately diagnose prostate cancer nodal metastasis in patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomyAlberto Briganti
Department of Urology, Vita Salute University, Milan, Italy
Urology 69:147-51. 2007..To study the relation between the number of removed and examined lymph nodes at pelvic lymph node dissection and the rate of lymph node invasion (LNI)... - [Diagnostic value of ultrasound-guided anastomotic biopsies in patients with high PSA (> or = 0,4 ng/ml) after radical prostatectomy]Vincenzo Scattoni
Dipartimento di Urologia, Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
Arch Ital Urol Androl 74:129-31. 2002..0 ng/ml and in absence of ultrasound detectable or palpable lesions a local neoplastic recurrence was detected in 58% of the cases. In presence of a palpable or ultrasound visible lesions, the detection rate increases to 80% of the cases... - Systematic development of clinical practice guidelines for prostate biopsies: a 3-year Italian projectAlessandro Bertaccini
Department of Urology, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Sant Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Palagi Str 9, 40100, Bologna, Italy
Anticancer Res 27:659-66. 2007..The only available method to detect prostate cancer is prostate biopsy; however, to our knowledge, no evidence-based clinical practice guidelines have been established on this topic... - Holmium laser enucleation versus transurethral resection of the prostate. Are histological findings comparable?Richard Naspro
Departments of Urology and Pathology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
J Urol 171:1203-6. 2004..A moderately higher percent of prostatic tissue obtained by the Ho laser is lost by vaporization and coagulation. Nevertheless, these differences do not seem to alter pathologist ability to detect incidental prostate cancer and PIN... - Dorsal onlay graft urethroplasty using penile skin or buccal mucosa for repair of bulbar urethral stricture: results of a prospective single center studyMarco Raber
Department of Urology, University Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Eur Urol 48:1013-7. 2005..Nevertheless, with extended follow-up, the use of PS seems to be associated with a higher failure rate... - Significant upgrading affects a third of men diagnosed with prostate cancer: predictive nomogram and internal validationFelix K-H Chun
Department of Urology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
BJU Int 98:329-34. 2006..7%. CONCLUSION: Our nomogram might prove highly useful when the possibility of a more aggressive Gleason variant could change the treatment options... - Is seminal vesicle ablation mandatory for all patients undergoing radical prostatectomy? A multivariate analysis on 1283 patientsAlexandre R Zlotta
Department of Urology, Erasme Hospital, University Clinics of Brussels, 808 Route de Lennik, B 1070 Brussels, Belgium
Eur Urol 46:42-9. 2004..Since SV-sparing surgery may possibly have an influence on post-operative erectile dysfunction and urinary recovery, we tried to determine which patients could be safely spared SV excision during radical prostatectomy... - Systematic prostate biopsies are more and more often becoming saturation biopsiesVincenzo Scattoni
Eur Urol 50:202-4. 2006 - Atypical foci suspicious but not diagnostic of malignancy in prostate needle biopsies (also referred to as "atypical small acinar proliferation suspicious for but not diagnostic of malignancy")Rodolfo Montironi
Pathology, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Eur Urol 50:666-74. 2006..To review atypical focus suspicious but not diagnostic of malignancy in needle biopsies of the prostate, also referred to as "atypical small acinar proliferation suspicious for but not diagnostic of malignancy.".. - Editorial comment on: predictive factors for progression in patients with clinical stage T1a prostate cancer in the PSA eraVincenzo Scattoni
Eur Urol 53:361. 2008 - [Prostate biopsy: number and places of sampling]Andrea B Galosi
Clinica Urologica, Ospedale Torrette,
Arch Ital Urol Androl 77:33-8. 2005 - Health-insurance status is a determinant of the stage at presentation and of cancer control in European men treated with radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancerAndrea Gallina
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BJU Int 99:1404-8. 2007.... - [Efficacy of bicalutamide in adjuvant treatment of prostatic carcinoma after primary therapy with curative aim. The viewpoint of the surgeon]Patrizio Rigatti
Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, , Milano
Recenti Prog Med 93:183-5. 2002 - Comparison of a 3-day with a 1-day regimen of an extended-release formulation of ciprofloxacin as antimicrobial prophylaxis for patients undergoing transrectal needle biopsy of the prostateAnthony J Schaeffer
Department of Urology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
BJU Int 100:51-7. 2007.... - [Role of prostate fossa ultrasonography in the diagnosis of local recurrence after radical prostatectomy in case of PSA failure]Marco Roscigno
Clinica Urologica, Universita Vita e Salute, Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano
Arch Ital Urol Androl 74:304-8. 2002..2 ng/mL) after radical prostatectomy, who received 4-6 random anastomotic biopsies of the prostatic fossa plus additional biopsies directed to TRUS detectable lesions... - Development and external validation of an extended 10-core biopsy nomogramFelix K H Chun
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Eur Urol 52:436-44. 2007..To test the accuracy of a previously externally validated sextant biopsy nomogram in referred men exposed to > or =10 or more biopsy cores. Moreover, we explored the hypothesis that a more accurate predictive tool could be developed... - Development and external validation of an extended repeat biopsy nomogramFelix K H Chun
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Urol 177:510-5. 2007..We hypothesized that the outcome of repeat biopsy could be accurately predicted. We tested this hypothesis in a contemporary cohort from 3 centers...