384 What Proportion of Pyelonephritis Admissions Under Urology Care Have Surgical Pathology

Pyelonephritis: A Surgical Pathology?

A 65-year-old female came to us with a long history of right flank pain often associated with pyrexia but without significant urinary disease. She became to show this pain about 2 years before our meeting. The pain was quite heavy, oppressive but not continuous and for this reason the patient didn’t ever care. The patient’s history didn’t reveal any malignant pathology. She was operated for app...

What is quality in surgical pathology?

Quality in surgical pathology may be defined as accurate, timely, and complete reports. Achieving quality requires substantial investment in the basic structure and in the people who undertake surgical pathology. Quality assurance and improvement works best when it is woven into the systems of surgical pathology with well informed, well trained, and knowledgeable staff.

Surgical Techniques in Urology

ntroduction. A combined abdominal and thoracic surgical approach is the treatment of choice for renal cell arcinoma with secondary thrombus extending to the supradiaphragmatic vena cava and initially into the ight atrium. This procedure usually requires a median sternotomy with cardiopulmonary bypass and deep ypothermic circulation arrest or, alternatively, venovenous bypass. In this report, we...

This month in Investigative Urology: host parasite interaction in pyelonephritis.

Community care demonstrations: What have we learned?

Based on a review of community care demonstrations, we conclude that expanding public financing of community services beyond what already exists is likely to increase costs. Small nursing home cost reductions are more than offset by the increased costs of providing services to those who would remain at home even without the expanded services. However, expanded community services appear to make ...