Pub Date : 2026-01-07DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01120-9
Artificial intelligence (AI) could transform the field of urology from student education through clinical procedures to writing and reporting. In this Focus issue on the applications of AI in urology, we present articles covering a broad range of the potential uses in the field.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01116-5
Arthur L. Burnett, Mikael N. Sturny, Anthony J. Costello, Philip Dundee, Sidney Glina, Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Rodrigo A. Fraga-Silva
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Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01113-8
Marieke Dewitte, Charmaine Borg
{"title":"Rethinking sexual pleasure in research, health care and society","authors":"Marieke Dewitte, Charmaine Borg","doi":"10.1038/s41585-025-01113-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-025-01113-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19088,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Urology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145902547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-02DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01117-4
Michael V Ortiz, Francis S P L Wens, Andrew L Hong, Paola Quarello, Arnauld C Verschuur, Elisabeth T Tracy, Najat C Daw, Jeffrey S Dome, Amy L Walz, Julia Sprokkerieft, Godelieve A M Tytgat, Alex Kentsis, Jaime Libes-Bander, Peter J Schoettler, Daniela Perotti, Jarno Drost, Rajkumar Venkatramani, James I Geller, Marry M van den Heuvel-Eibrink
Paediatric kidney tumours are generally associated with a favourable survival rate. Most children are diagnosed with Wilms tumour, which has a 90% long-term survival rate with conventional front-line and salvage therapies. However, treatments and outcomes of children with relapsed non-Wilms tumours, such as malignant rhabdoid tumour of the kidney, renal-cell carcinoma (including renal medullary carcinoma), clear-cell sarcoma of the kidney, anaplastic sarcoma of the kidney and congenital mesoblastic nephroma are not well defined. Several of these non-Wilms tumours include unfavourable prognostic subtypes. Currently available data on non-Wilms tumours support advancing studies that pivot from conventional strategies towards disease-specific, biologically driven novel treatments to improve outcomes for each of these rare childhood kidney tumours.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01115-6
Suma Gangidi,Gal Wald,Jim C Hu
{"title":"Technical modifications to improve erectile function recovery after radical prostatectomy.","authors":"Suma Gangidi,Gal Wald,Jim C Hu","doi":"10.1038/s41585-025-01115-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-025-01115-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19088,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Urology","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145704319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01118-3
Louise Lloyd
{"title":"Och AI the noo from SIU","authors":"Louise Lloyd","doi":"10.1038/s41585-025-01118-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41585-025-01118-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19088,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Urology","volume":"23 1","pages":"8-8"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145680048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01111-w
Melis Guer, Wayne G. Brisbane, Hannes Cash, Sangeet Ghai, Laurence Klotz, Paul F. R. Wilson, Adam Kinnaird
{"title":"Micro-ultrasound for prostate cancer","authors":"Melis Guer, Wayne G. Brisbane, Hannes Cash, Sangeet Ghai, Laurence Klotz, Paul F. R. Wilson, Adam Kinnaird","doi":"10.1038/s41585-025-01111-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-025-01111-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19088,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Urology","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145609169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01114-7
Rui M Bernardino, João Lobo, Jihad Kaouk, Theodorus van der Kwast, Susan Prendeville, Fabio Zattoni, Lorenzo Bianchi, Alberto Martini, Pawel Rajwa, Veeru Kasivisvanathan, Giancarlo Marra, Neil Fleshner
{"title":"Author Correction: Atypical intraductal proliferation in prostate biopsy - a diagnostic grey zone with clinical implications.","authors":"Rui M Bernardino, João Lobo, Jihad Kaouk, Theodorus van der Kwast, Susan Prendeville, Fabio Zattoni, Lorenzo Bianchi, Alberto Martini, Pawel Rajwa, Veeru Kasivisvanathan, Giancarlo Marra, Neil Fleshner","doi":"10.1038/s41585-025-01114-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-025-01114-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19088,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Urology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145541426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}