Egyptian Board Urology - independent subject foundations common mistakes
Egyptian Board Urology - independent subject foundations · Understand the traps and how to avoid them.
Calling every low flow obstruction
Weak detrusor contraction can also reduce urinary flow.
What to do instead
Use symptoms, residual assessment and appropriate pressure-flow information together.
Treating a PSA result as a diagnosis
Benign conditions and treatment effects can influence the marker.
What to do instead
Integrate serial findings, risk assessment, imaging and indicated tissue assessment.
Calling a uric acid stone invisible on CT
Plain-film radiolucency differs from CT visibility.
What to do instead
State the actual imaging modality before inferring a stone property.
Fragmenting a stone before controlling infected obstruction
The infected obstructed system can be an urgent systemic threat.
What to do instead
Arrange appropriate resuscitation, antimicrobial treatment and drainage before definitive stone management.
Using catheterization as proof of safe storage
Emptying and storage pressure are different functional issues.
What to do instead
Assess compliance, pressure and upper-tract risk alongside the drainage plan.
Giving testosterone without discussing fertility
Exogenous testosterone can suppress the reproductive axis and sperm production.
What to do instead
Clarify fertility goals before selecting an appropriate monitored strategy.
Applying one semen cutoff as absolute infertility
Reference centiles do not separate every fertile and infertile individual.
What to do instead
Interpret the full assessment and repeat testing when clinically appropriate.
Forcefully retracting a normal young child foreskin
Physiological non-retractability can be developmentally normal.
What to do instead
Avoid force and distinguish normal development from symptomatic pathological change.