BMC UrologyPub Date : 2026-02-17DOI: 10.1186/s12894-026-02090-9
Emrah Küçük, Haydar Güler, Reha Ordulu, Mustafa Aydın, Uğur Öztürk, Mustafa Koray Kırdağ, Işıl Ünaldı, Mustafa Kemal Atilla
{"title":"Impact of diabetes mellitus on stone access and surgical outcomes in patients undergoing ureteroscopic lithotripsy: a retrospective cohort study.","authors":"Emrah Küçük, Haydar Güler, Reha Ordulu, Mustafa Aydın, Uğur Öztürk, Mustafa Koray Kırdağ, Işıl Ünaldı, Mustafa Kemal Atilla","doi":"10.1186/s12894-026-02090-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-026-02090-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13014832/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146211985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC UrologyPub Date : 2026-02-16DOI: 10.1186/s12894-026-02083-8
Mazhar Ortac, Teresa Olsen Ekerhult, M Firat Ozervarli, Anthony Atala
{"title":"Evaluation of animal models for urethral stricture: a systematic review.","authors":"Mazhar Ortac, Teresa Olsen Ekerhult, M Firat Ozervarli, Anthony Atala","doi":"10.1186/s12894-026-02083-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-026-02083-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13011471/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146206560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC UrologyPub Date : 2026-02-14DOI: 10.1186/s12894-026-02081-w
Youyun Zhang
{"title":"Migration of radioactive seeds to the paravertebral venous system after prostate cancer brachytherapy: a case series and literature review.","authors":"Youyun Zhang","doi":"10.1186/s12894-026-02081-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-026-02081-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13011264/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146197457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC UrologyPub Date : 2026-02-14DOI: 10.1186/s12894-026-02056-x
Elisa Ghannam, Helen Musleh, Tamara Ahmad, Mahmoud Mustafa, Razan Odeh, Ramzi Shawahna
{"title":"Correction: Outcomes of nephrostomy and double J stent in malignant ureteral obstruction in the Palestinian practice.","authors":"Elisa Ghannam, Helen Musleh, Tamara Ahmad, Mahmoud Mustafa, Razan Odeh, Ramzi Shawahna","doi":"10.1186/s12894-026-02056-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-026-02056-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":"26 1","pages":"45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12905944/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146197502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC UrologyPub Date : 2026-02-14DOI: 10.1186/s12894-026-02068-7
Volkan Sen, Ege A Sarikaya, Can Sinirsiz, Can Ahmet Karabacak, Muhammed Selcuk Ozer, Canan Altay, Burcin Tuna, Kutsal Yorukoglu, Ozan Bozkurt, Ilhan Celebi
{"title":"How lesions proportional density shapes MRI cognitive fusion biopsy outcomes; finding the needle in the haystack.","authors":"Volkan Sen, Ege A Sarikaya, Can Sinirsiz, Can Ahmet Karabacak, Muhammed Selcuk Ozer, Canan Altay, Burcin Tuna, Kutsal Yorukoglu, Ozan Bozkurt, Ilhan Celebi","doi":"10.1186/s12894-026-02068-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-026-02068-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":"26 1","pages":"46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12906050/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146197500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dwell time of percutaneous nephrostomies in pregnancy - what is the optimal exchange interval?","authors":"Yash Khanna, Tran Ngoc An Huynh, Gavin Wei, Kerelus Morkos, Weranja Ranasinghe","doi":"10.1186/s12894-026-02079-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-026-02079-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12997846/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146164014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC UrologyPub Date : 2026-02-12DOI: 10.1186/s12894-026-02080-x
Yuxuan Du, Yanbing Liang, Ping Li, Yangang Xu, Xingshu Zhen, Liuqiang Li, Mei Huang, Yifei Zhan, Guanyang Li, Zichi Wu, Chan Hiu Fung Anson, Chenyu Zhou, Ayizeba Aimaierjiang, Jiaqi Chen, Kaiyue Tang, Yaochuan Guo, Zhiyuan Guo, Jun Bian, Dehui Lai
{"title":"Automatic classification of kidney stone components based on smartphone microscopy and the GoogLeNet model.","authors":"Yuxuan Du, Yanbing Liang, Ping Li, Yangang Xu, Xingshu Zhen, Liuqiang Li, Mei Huang, Yifei Zhan, Guanyang Li, Zichi Wu, Chan Hiu Fung Anson, Chenyu Zhou, Ayizeba Aimaierjiang, Jiaqi Chen, Kaiyue Tang, Yaochuan Guo, Zhiyuan Guo, Jun Bian, Dehui Lai","doi":"10.1186/s12894-026-02080-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-026-02080-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>To develop an automated classification system for urinary stone composition by integrating smartphone-based microscopic imaging (TIPSCOPE) with the GoogLeNet architecture, with the goal of enabling rapid, accurate, and cost-effective analysis of stone composition.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 140 surgically extracted kidney stone samples were collected and classified into four categories: calcium oxalate (66 cases), uric acid (32 cases), carbonate apatite (26 cases), and magnesium ammonium phosphate hexahydrate (16 cases). Microscopic images of the stones were acquired using the TIPSCOPE device paired with a Realme GT5 smartphone, resulting in a dataset of 840 images. The classification model was trained using the Adam optimizer, with 90% of the dataset allocated for training and 10% reserved for testing.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The overall accuracy of the system reached 85.7%. Performance metrics for each category were as follows: uric acid stones: F1 = 0.92 (precision = 0.90, recall = 0.95); magnesium ammonium phosphate hexahydrate stones: F1 = 0.95 (precision = 0.90, recall = 1.00); calcium oxalate stones: F1 = 0.86 (precision = 0.85, recall = 0.88); carbonate apatite stones: F1 = 0.69 (precision = 0.77, recall = 0.63).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study successfully developed a kidney stone composition classification system integrating a smartphone-based microscope with a deep learning model, achieving an overall classification accuracy of 85.7%. The system exhibited strong performance in classifying uric acid and magnesium ammonium phosphate hexahydrate stones. With its low cost, efficiency, and portability, this system offers an economical and practical diagnostic solution for resource-limited regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12998115/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146163968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC UrologyPub Date : 2026-02-12DOI: 10.1186/s12894-026-02073-w
Yue Li, Ning Liang, Changming Dong, Huiying Tao, Tianxi Yu, Shuang Wu, Hao Xie, Jiahao Guo, Wei Lv, Chunhua Lin
{"title":"A 41-Year-Old male with multifocal \"grape-like\" ureteral carcinoma involving nearly the entire ureter: a case report and management discussion.","authors":"Yue Li, Ning Liang, Changming Dong, Huiying Tao, Tianxi Yu, Shuang Wu, Hao Xie, Jiahao Guo, Wei Lv, Chunhua Lin","doi":"10.1186/s12894-026-02073-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-026-02073-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ureteral carcinoma, a rare malignancy typically presenting as a solitary ureteral lesion. Early diagnosis is challenging due to nonspecific clinical symptoms and subtle radiographic findings. We describe a 41-year-old male with an unusually extensive ureteral tumor that nearly occupied the full length of the right ureter. Multi-regional genomic sequencing demonstrated a branched evolutionary pattern and a complex mutational landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12998090/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146177951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC UrologyPub Date : 2026-02-11DOI: 10.1186/s12894-025-02015-y
Semra Özkan, Ali Börekoğlu
{"title":"Fasting blood glucose to HDL-C ratio as a potential biomarker for prostate cancer risk classification.","authors":"Semra Özkan, Ali Börekoğlu","doi":"10.1186/s12894-025-02015-y","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12894-025-02015-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9285,"journal":{"name":"BMC Urology","volume":"26 1","pages":"43"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12895837/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146164027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}