Rock Hard Facts
A surgeon should offer Ureteroscopy for a persistent stone after this maximum number of ESWL treatments?
What is two?
This is the recommended duration of maintenance BCG for patients with high-risk NMIBC who experience response to induction BCG and remain disease-free on surveillance.
What is 3 years?
In staging of penile cancer, invasion of the corpora cavernosum denotes this T stage?
What is T3?
The AUA was founded in this year?
What is 1902?
An extraperitoneal bladder injury with no associated bone or other organ trauma should be managed initially with this treatment?
What is catheter drainage?
Uric acid stones are more common in patients with this medical condition due to changes in urinary pH and insulin handling?
What is diabetes?
The AUA guideline defines 'clinically significant' prostate cancer as this Grade Group or higher.
What is Grade Group 2?
This is the NCCN risk group of a patient with prostate cancer with
-normal DRE
-Gleason 4+5 adenocarcinoma on biopsy
-PSA 18
What is high risk?
This type of device is utilized for early-stage prolapse and does not require surgical intervention.
What is ring pessary?
In setting of a hemodynamically unstable patient who is taken to the OR, the absolute indications for renal exploration include persistent renal bleeding and this indication?
What is expanding or pulsatile hematoma?
Primary hyperoxaluria is characterized by defects in metabolism of this molecule?
What is glyoxalate?
This medication is the treatment of choice for men with LUTS/BPH and estimated prostate volume > 30cc and/or PSA > 1.5 ng/ml
What is 5-alpha reductase inhibitor?
A T1 or T2 kidney cancer with regional lymph node metastasis and no distant metastasis falls into this anatomic prognostic stage group?
What is Stage III (AJCC)
This antibiotic class has the highest susceptibility against gram-negative organisms responsible for sepsis of urologic origin related to stones
What are carbapenems?
In a patient presenting with penile fracture, gross hematuria should prompt investigation for this?
What is urethral injury?
Diet changes recommended for patients with cystinuria include reduction in intake of this type of food?
What is animal protein?
The 2026 AUA LUTS/BPH Guideline outlines pre-procedural testing for BPH/LUTS to be cystoscopy as optional and these two tests as required
What are PVR and prostate imaging for size/shape
This is the prognostic stage group of a prostate cancer that is node positive (N1) without distant metastasis
What is Stage IVA?
If an adrenal mass is nonfunctional, this is the cutoff diameter that permits you to stop monitoring with imaging
What is 4 cm?
A patient with severe pyelonephritis who continues to have fevers after 48 hours should have this test?
What is repeat axial imaging?
A key difference of thullium fiber laser, compared to Holmium:YAG, is this property, which may contribute to faster treatment times with TFL
What is higher frequency?
The 2024 AUA/SUFU guideline for idiopathic overactive bladder says clinicians should discuss this cumulative, dose-dependent risk with patients taking antimuscarinics
What is dementia, or cognitive impairment?
This is the clinical N stage for a patient with testicular cancer and 2 retroperitoneal lymph nodes measuring 3.5cm and 1.8cm
What is clinical stage N2?
This is one of the genes that can be altered in Lynch Syndrome.
What is MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, or PMS2?
This is the test of choice for an individual with a single genital ulcer with a clean base with concomitant painless lymphadenopathy.
What is RPR or EIA testing for syphilis?