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Re: Wei Shen Tan, Aaron Prendergast, Charlotte Ackermann, et al. Adjuvant Intravesical Chemohyperthermia Versus Passive Chemotherapy in Patients with Intermediate-risk Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (HIVEC-II): A Phase 2, Open-label, Randomised Controlled Trial. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2022.08.003
No full textUrological-Geriatric Integrated Diagnostic-Therapeutic Pathway for elderly patients with urologic diseases
Full text linkAging of population represents a new challenge for physicians who have to deal with the balance of risk and benefit in a population that is poorly represented in clinical trials. Frail patients need individualized treatments because of their high risk of developing complications in the course of therapies. Several studies have reported the effect of frailty on falls, hospitalization and mortality, but only few have focused on surgical patients and frailty is not included in the traditional surgical risk scales.
Geriatric surgery patients have a physiologic vulnerability requiring assessment beyond the traditional preoperative evaluation of adults. Although single organ evaluation cannot be ignored in elderly population, recognition of frail patients during preoperative assessment may provide additional insight in predicting poor outcome; thus, aiding preoperative decision-making.
We developed a Urological-Geriatric Integrated Diagnostic-Therapeutic Pathway in order to evaluate ≥65 years old patients affected by urogenital pathologies which require major surgery and to early identify frail subject
Clitoroplastica e ricostruzione chirurgica delle grandi labbra in mosaicismo X0/XY: Case report
No full textThe goal of genital correction surgery is to create a cosmetic and functional outcome preserving the sensitivity. A case of correction for hypertrophy of the clitoris and labia majora is described. A 46 years old women, diagnosed at infancy with X0/XY mosaicism, presented in early childhood, hypertrophy of clitoris and labia majora. She underwent surgery to remove gonads in infancy, but she asked for reduction clitoroplasty and labia majora only after a long psicotherapic support. A small area of the clitoris to be preserved was marked. Neurovascular bundle was carefully separated from the corporal tissue that was cut off. Later the estimated amount of skin and fat to be removed from labia majora was marked. At 12 months after surgery, the patient's external genitalia had reached a normal appearance. The sensitivity of the surgically reduced clitoris had preserved and labia majora aspect had a good cosmetic result. © Capsula Eburnea, 2010
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Development and external validation of lymph node density cut-off points in prospective series of radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection
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