ULTRASONIC LOCALIZATION OF NORMAL MALE RAT PROSTATE AND URINARY BLADDER

M2 and M3 muscarinic receptor activation of urinary bladder contractile signal transduction. I. Normal rat bladder.

The muscarinic receptor subtype-activated signal transduction mechanisms mediating rat urinary bladder contraction are incompletely understood. M(3) mediates normal rat bladder contractions; however, the M(2) receptor subtype has a more dominant role in contractions of the hypertrophied bladder. Normal bladder muscle strips were exposed to inhibitors of enzymes thought to be involved in signal ...

PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA OF THE URINARY BLADDER

One of the rarest tumors involving the urinary bladder is the pheochromocytoma. A case of pheochromocytoma of the urinary bladder in a young female suffering from headache and cystitis for many years is reported. Twenty-four hour urine VMA was normal. The patient was never hypertensive except during surgical manipulation of the tumor. Biopsy of the bladder resulted in massive hemorrhage.

Non-Invasive Ultrasonic Diagnosis of Urinary Bladder Outlet Obstruction

Paraganglial cells of urinary bladder and prostate: potential diagnostic problem.

A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma. Immunohistochemical studies were carried out on this tissue specimen and three similar cases using a variety of antibodies--Neuron specific enolase, PGP 9.5, chromogranin, synaptophysin, serotonin, somatostatin, su...

Diffusion-weighted MRI of urinary bladder and prostate cancers.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of diffusion-weighted imaging in the diagnosis of the urinary bladder and prostate carcinomas. The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of the malignant and normal tissues were correlated. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 23 patients with 14 urinary bladder carcinomas and 9 prostate carcinomas, and 50 healthy controls wi...