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Our findings suggest that the frequency of emergency drainage in elderly patients with poor performance status has increased in recent years, at least in our rural area of Japan. Preventing calculous formation and urinary tract infection in individuals with poor performance status will be of considerable importance in the future.

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HR-MALDI-IMS showed that the expression of LPC(16:0/OH) and SM(d18:1/16:0) was lower in prostate cancer than in benign prostate epithelium. These differences in expression of phospholipids may predict prostate cancer aggressiveness, and provide new insights into lipid metabolism in prostate cancer.