

Craig Labbate
30 posts

@labbdoc
Urology resident @uchicagomed. history buff. recovering swimmer. Views are my own.













The association of salvage intravesical therapy following BCG with pathologic outcomes and survival after radical cystectomy for patients with high-grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: A multi-institution analysis buff.ly/3khGG1T





#ThrowbackThursday: A simple device, the penile clamp is mainly used by incontinent men to prevent urine leakage. This incontinence clamp was designed to apply pressure to the male urethra. #DiduschMuseum


The costs for a #prostatecancer treatment for 1 man can be as much as €300,000. Late detection is one of the major causes of these enormous costs.


The 5 stages of surgical retraction: 1. I hold retractor for boss. No idea. 2. I hold retractor for boss. I understand it all! 3. Boss holds retractor, I do surgery. Easy! 4. Junior holds retractor, I do surgery. Hard! 5. I hold retractor for junior. They feel awesome.

"Before polygenic scores can be translated into clinical practice they will need to be extensively validated in clinical and population-based cohorts for their ability to predict meaningful outcomes that can be modified with intervention" Via @JAMA_current jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Challenging dogma..need a urethral frozen section prior to neobladder? I think not. @labbdoc @theVig245 @siadaneshmand @Agarwal_CaB The Impact of Omission of Intraoperative Frozen Section Prior to Orthotopic Neobladder | The Journal of Urology ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/31059…



