List of works - Atsushi Imai

A Case of Fibrous Pseudotumor in the Scrotum: Challenge for Diagnosis and Testicular Preservation.

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

A Case of Malignant Pheochromocytoma Detected during Fertility Treatment.

scientific article published on 05 February 2014

A Longitudinal Study of Bidirectional Relationships between Sleep Disorder and Frequency of Nocturia: Results from the Iwaki Health Promotion Project

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

A case of metastatic cancer with markedly elevated PSA level that was not detected by repeat prostate biopsy

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

A case of primary renal carcinoid tumor

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

A very long foreign body in the bladder

scientific article

Aberrant N-Glycosylation Profile of Serum Immunoglobulins is a Diagnostic Biomarker of Urothelial Carcinomas

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Altered gut microbiome associated with overactive bladder and daily urinary urgency

scientific article published on 17 May 2020

Analysis of the relationship between prescribed dose and dosimetric advantage of real-time intraoperatively built custom-linked seeds in iodine-125 prostate brachytherapy

scientific article published in December 2017

Aortic calcification burden predicts deterioration of renal function after radical nephrectomy.

scientific article

Biochemical outcome of small-volume or insignificant prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy in Japanese population

scientific article published on 16 June 2011

Both radical prostatectomy following treatment with neoadjuvant LHRH agonist and estramustine and radiotherapy following treatment with neoadjuvant hormonal therapy achieved favorable oncological outcome in high-risk prostate cancer: a propensity-sc

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

Carboplatin-based combination chemotherapy for elderly patients with advanced bladder cancer.

scientific article

Cauda equina symptoms are closely related to male lower urinary tract symptoms

scientific article published on 13 April 2010

Differences in the recurrence pattern after neoadjuvant chemotherapy compared to surgery alone in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Editorial Comment

Effect of an Oral Adsorbent, AST-120, on Dialysis Initiation and Survival in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

scientific article published on 12 January 2012

Efficacy and Safety of Silodosin and Dutasteride Combination Therapy in Acute Urinary Retention due to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Single-Arm Prospective Study

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Efficacy of SMART Stent Placement for Salvage Angioplasty in Hemodialysis Patients with Recurrent Vascular Access Stenosis

scientific article

Efficacy of a neoadjuvant gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist plus low-dose estramustine phosphate in high-risk prostate cancer: a single-center study.

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Eviprostat has an identical effect compared to pollen extract (Cernilton) in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a randomized, prospective study

scientific article published on 7 December 2015

Feasibly of axitinib as first-line therapy for advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a single-institution experience in Japan

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

Frequency of postoperative inguinal hernia after endoscope-assisted mini-laparotomy and conventional retropubic radical prostatectomies

scientific article published in March 2008

Geriatric 8 screening of frailty in patients with prostate cancer

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Impact of chronic kidney disease on oncological outcomes in patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent adjuvant bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Impact of distance between donor and recipient hospitals on cadaveric kidney transplantation outcomes

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Impact of substratification on predicting oncological outcomes in patients with primary high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent transurethral resection of bladder tumor

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Impact of symptomatic recurrence on oncological outcomes in patients with primary high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Incidental prostate cancer in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent radical cystoprostatectomy

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Influence of pretreatment quality of life on prognosis in patients with urothelial carcinoma

scientific article published on 26 October 2019

Intraoperative upper urinary tract cytology examination is a risk factor of upper urinary tract recurrence in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

scientific article published on 11 July 2020

Long-term chronological changes in urination status of patients who underwent ileal neobladder reconstruction at a single institution

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Low-dose instillation therapy with bacille Calmette-Guérin Tokyo 172 strain after transurethral resection: historical cohort study

scientific article published on 15 February 2008

Multicenter prospective study validating the efficacy of a quantitative assessment tool for frailty in patients with urological cancers

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Neoadjuvant chemohormonal therapy followed by robot-assisted and minimum incision endoscopic radical prostatectomy in patients with high-risk prostate cancer: comparison of perioperative and oncological outcomes at single institution

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Neoadjuvant gemcitabine and carboplatin followed by immediate cystectomy may be associated with a survival benefit in patients with clinical T2 bladder cancer

scientific article published on 04 April 2014

Oncological outcomes of a single but extensive transurethral resection followed by appropriate intra-vesical instillation therapy for newly diagnosed non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Overactive bladder and sleep disturbance have a significant effect on indoor falls: Results from the community health survey in Japan

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Overall survival of high-risk prostate cancer patients who received neoadjuvant chemohormonal therapy followed by radical prostatectomy at a single institution

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Paget's disease mimicking metastatic prostate cancer on bone scan image : a case report

scientific article

Postoperative weight loss followed by radical cystectomy predicts poor prognosis in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Preoperative butyrylcholinesterase level as an independent predictor of overall survival in clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients treated with nephrectomy

scientific article published on 04 March 2014

Preoperative chronic kidney disease predicts poor prognosis in patients with primary non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent transurethral resection of bladder tumor

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Presurgical therapy with axitinib for advanced renal cell carcinoma: a case report

scientific article

Protein profiling of post-prostatic massage urine specimens by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry to discriminate between prostate cancer and benign lesions.

scientific article published in January 2009

Quality-of-life evaluation during platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapies for urothelial carcinoma

scientific article

Relationship between frailty and lower urinary tract symptoms among community-dwelling adults

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Relationship between oxidative stress and lower urinary tract symptoms: results from a community health survey in Japan

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

Risk factors for erectile dysfunction in healthy Japanese men.

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

Risk factors for surgical site infection in radical cystectomy: efficacy of buried suture by absorbable thread for skin closure

scientific article published in February 2009

Robot-assisted radical cystectomy in a patient with muscle-invasive bladder cancer following radiotherapy for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Robotic cross-folded U-configuration intracorporeal ileal neobladder for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: Initial experience and functional outcomes

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

STone Episode Prediction: Development and validation of the prediction nomogram for urolithiasis

scientific article published on 08 March 2020

Safety and Feasibility of Radiation Therapy to the Primary Tumor in Patients With Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Safety and efficacy of intensive instillation of low-dose pirarubicin vs. bacillus Calmette-Guérin in patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

Safety of heparin bridging therapy for transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy in patients requiring temporary discontinuation of antithrombotic agents

scientific article

Salvage Brachytherapy for Castration-Resistant and External Beam Radiotherapy-Resistant Local Recurrence 17 Years after Radical Prostatectomy

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Sequential chemotherapy using gemcitabine + carboplatin followed by gemcitabine + carboplatin + docetaxel for advanced upper-tract urothelial cancer

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Short-term outcome of neoadjuvant gemcitabine-carboplatin therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer

scientific article

Significance of preoperative butyrylcholinesterase as an independent predictor of biochemical recurrence-free survival in patients with prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy

scientific article published on 30 July 2015

Significance of preoperative butyrylcholinesterase as an independent predictor of survival in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with radical cystectomy

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

Significance of preoperative butyrylcholinesterase level as an independent predictor of survival in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma treated with nephroureterectomy

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Skin perfusion pressure is a prognostic factor in hemodialysis patients

scientific article published on 2 April 2012

Sleep Disturbance Has a Higher Impact on General and Mental Quality of Life Reduction than Nocturia: Results from the Community Health Survey in Japan

scientific article published on 04 May 2018

Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Prostate Which Was Initially Misdiagnosed as Prostate Cancer.

scientific article published on 26 February 2017

Surgery without Blood Transfusion for Giant Paraganglioma in a Jehovah's Witness Patient

scientific article published on January 2014

Survey on attitudes toward brain-dead and living donor transplantation in medical students: a cross-sectional study in Japan

scientific article published on 31 March 2020

The Impact of Glycosylation of Osteopontin on Urinary Stone Formation

scientific article published on 21 December 2019

The Relationship Between Gait Function and Erectile Dysfunction: Results from a Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Japan

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

The association between gut microbiome and erectile dysfunction: a community-based cross-sectional study in Japan

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

The association between serum serotonin levels and overactive bladder: results from a community-based cross-sectional study in Japan

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

The feasibility and effectiveness of robot-assisted radical cystectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

The impact of microalbuminuria on overactive bladders: Results from a community-based four-year longitudinal study in Japan

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

The retrospective analysis of the relationship between prescribed dose and risk factor for seed migration in iodine-125 prostate brachytherapy

scientific article published on 08 September 2016

The utility of neoadjuvant gemcitabine plus carboplatin followed by immediate radical cystectomy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin-based chemotherapy

scientific article

Unexpected outcome after sclerotherapy of simple renal cyst

scientific article

Ureteral endometriosis treated by hormonal therapy : a case report

scientific article published in July 2013

[Adenocarcinoma of the ileal segment 40 years after ileocystoplasty: a case report]

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

[Local recurrence of pheochromocytoma associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease 26 years after bilateral adrenalectomy : a case report]

[Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome diagnosed by laparoscopic examination: a case report]

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

[Solitary fibrous tumor of the kidney: a case report]

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

List of works by Atsushi Imai

A Case of Fibrous Pseudotumor in the Scrotum: Challenge for Diagnosis and Testicular Preservation.

A Case of Malignant Pheochromocytoma Detected during Fertility Treatment.

A Longitudinal Study of Bidirectional Relationships between Sleep Disorder and Frequency of Nocturia: Results from the Iwaki Health Promotion Project

A case of metastatic cancer with markedly elevated PSA level that was not detected by repeat prostate biopsy

A case of primary renal carcinoid tumor

A very long foreign body in the bladder

Aberrant N-Glycosylation Profile of Serum Immunoglobulins is a Diagnostic Biomarker of Urothelial Carcinomas

Altered gut microbiome associated with overactive bladder and daily urinary urgency

Analysis of the relationship between prescribed dose and dosimetric advantage of real-time intraoperatively built custom-linked seeds in iodine-125 prostate brachytherapy

Aortic calcification burden predicts deterioration of renal function after radical nephrectomy.

Biochemical outcome of small-volume or insignificant prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy in Japanese population

Both radical prostatectomy following treatment with neoadjuvant LHRH agonist and estramustine and radiotherapy following treatment with neoadjuvant hormonal therapy achieved favorable oncological outcome in high-risk prostate cancer: a propensity-sc

Carboplatin-based combination chemotherapy for elderly patients with advanced bladder cancer.

Cauda equina symptoms are closely related to male lower urinary tract symptoms

Differences in the recurrence pattern after neoadjuvant chemotherapy compared to surgery alone in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Editorial Comment

Effect of an Oral Adsorbent, AST-120, on Dialysis Initiation and Survival in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Efficacy and Safety of Silodosin and Dutasteride Combination Therapy in Acute Urinary Retention due to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Single-Arm Prospective Study

Efficacy of SMART Stent Placement for Salvage Angioplasty in Hemodialysis Patients with Recurrent Vascular Access Stenosis

Efficacy of a neoadjuvant gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist plus low-dose estramustine phosphate in high-risk prostate cancer: a single-center study.

Eviprostat has an identical effect compared to pollen extract (Cernilton) in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a randomized, prospective study

Feasibly of axitinib as first-line therapy for advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a single-institution experience in Japan

Frequency of postoperative inguinal hernia after endoscope-assisted mini-laparotomy and conventional retropubic radical prostatectomies

Geriatric 8 screening of frailty in patients with prostate cancer

Impact of chronic kidney disease on oncological outcomes in patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent adjuvant bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy

Impact of distance between donor and recipient hospitals on cadaveric kidney transplantation outcomes

Impact of substratification on predicting oncological outcomes in patients with primary high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent transurethral resection of bladder tumor

Impact of symptomatic recurrence on oncological outcomes in patients with primary high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Incidental prostate cancer in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent radical cystoprostatectomy

Influence of pretreatment quality of life on prognosis in patients with urothelial carcinoma

Intraoperative upper urinary tract cytology examination is a risk factor of upper urinary tract recurrence in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Long-term chronological changes in urination status of patients who underwent ileal neobladder reconstruction at a single institution

Low-dose instillation therapy with bacille Calmette-Guérin Tokyo 172 strain after transurethral resection: historical cohort study

Multicenter prospective study validating the efficacy of a quantitative assessment tool for frailty in patients with urological cancers

Neoadjuvant chemohormonal therapy followed by robot-assisted and minimum incision endoscopic radical prostatectomy in patients with high-risk prostate cancer: comparison of perioperative and oncological outcomes at single institution

Neoadjuvant gemcitabine and carboplatin followed by immediate cystectomy may be associated with a survival benefit in patients with clinical T2 bladder cancer

Oncological outcomes of a single but extensive transurethral resection followed by appropriate intra-vesical instillation therapy for newly diagnosed non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Overactive bladder and sleep disturbance have a significant effect on indoor falls: Results from the community health survey in Japan

Overall survival of high-risk prostate cancer patients who received neoadjuvant chemohormonal therapy followed by radical prostatectomy at a single institution

Paget's disease mimicking metastatic prostate cancer on bone scan image : a case report

Postoperative weight loss followed by radical cystectomy predicts poor prognosis in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Preoperative butyrylcholinesterase level as an independent predictor of overall survival in clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients treated with nephrectomy

Preoperative chronic kidney disease predicts poor prognosis in patients with primary non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who underwent transurethral resection of bladder tumor

Presurgical therapy with axitinib for advanced renal cell carcinoma: a case report

Protein profiling of post-prostatic massage urine specimens by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry to discriminate between prostate cancer and benign lesions.

Quality-of-life evaluation during platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapies for urothelial carcinoma

Relationship between frailty and lower urinary tract symptoms among community-dwelling adults

Relationship between oxidative stress and lower urinary tract symptoms: results from a community health survey in Japan

Risk factors for erectile dysfunction in healthy Japanese men.

Risk factors for surgical site infection in radical cystectomy: efficacy of buried suture by absorbable thread for skin closure

Robot-assisted radical cystectomy in a patient with muscle-invasive bladder cancer following radiotherapy for prostate cancer

Robotic cross-folded U-configuration intracorporeal ileal neobladder for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: Initial experience and functional outcomes

STone Episode Prediction: Development and validation of the prediction nomogram for urolithiasis

Safety and Feasibility of Radiation Therapy to the Primary Tumor in Patients With Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer

Safety and efficacy of intensive instillation of low-dose pirarubicin vs. bacillus Calmette-Guérin in patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Safety of heparin bridging therapy for transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy in patients requiring temporary discontinuation of antithrombotic agents

Salvage Brachytherapy for Castration-Resistant and External Beam Radiotherapy-Resistant Local Recurrence 17 Years after Radical Prostatectomy

Sequential chemotherapy using gemcitabine + carboplatin followed by gemcitabine + carboplatin + docetaxel for advanced upper-tract urothelial cancer

Short-term outcome of neoadjuvant gemcitabine-carboplatin therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Significance of preoperative butyrylcholinesterase as an independent predictor of biochemical recurrence-free survival in patients with prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy

Significance of preoperative butyrylcholinesterase as an independent predictor of survival in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with radical cystectomy

Significance of preoperative butyrylcholinesterase level as an independent predictor of survival in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma treated with nephroureterectomy

Skin perfusion pressure is a prognostic factor in hemodialysis patients

Sleep Disturbance Has a Higher Impact on General and Mental Quality of Life Reduction than Nocturia: Results from the Community Health Survey in Japan

Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Prostate Which Was Initially Misdiagnosed as Prostate Cancer.

Surgery without Blood Transfusion for Giant Paraganglioma in a Jehovah's Witness Patient

Survey on attitudes toward brain-dead and living donor transplantation in medical students: a cross-sectional study in Japan

The Impact of Glycosylation of Osteopontin on Urinary Stone Formation

The Relationship Between Gait Function and Erectile Dysfunction: Results from a Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Japan

The association between gut microbiome and erectile dysfunction: a community-based cross-sectional study in Japan

The association between serum serotonin levels and overactive bladder: results from a community-based cross-sectional study in Japan

The feasibility and effectiveness of robot-assisted radical cystectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

The impact of microalbuminuria on overactive bladders: Results from a community-based four-year longitudinal study in Japan

The retrospective analysis of the relationship between prescribed dose and risk factor for seed migration in iodine-125 prostate brachytherapy

The utility of neoadjuvant gemcitabine plus carboplatin followed by immediate radical cystectomy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who are ineligible for cisplatin-based chemotherapy

Unexpected outcome after sclerotherapy of simple renal cyst

Ureteral endometriosis treated by hormonal therapy : a case report

[Adenocarcinoma of the ileal segment 40 years after ileocystoplasty: a case report]

[Local recurrence of pheochromocytoma associated with von Hippel-Lindau disease 26 years after bilateral adrenalectomy : a case report]