background urinary stone incidence in pregnancy has been reported in a wide range, from 1 in 200 to 1 in 2000 cases. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of ureteroscopic treatment and its results and complications for pregnant women with urinary stones. patients and methods from 2003 till 2011, 113 pregnant patients with symptomatic urolithiasis were admi...

introduction: prostatic specific antigen (psa) is an important tumor marker of prostatic cancer and antigenic determinant of prostatic tissue. however, recently, results of several  researches have proposed existence of psa in non- prostatic tumors, extracts . in this study, our goal was to find that if patients with non-prostatic cancers synthesize psa. materials & methods : the sample was sel...

a 70 year old male presented with right lower quadrant pain and anorexia for about 72 hours prior to hospital admission. he underwent laparotomy with impression of acute appendicitis. the operative finding was an inflamed tumoral appendix without appendicular base involvement, and appendectomy was done. the patient had an uneventful post-op course. due to the pathology report of prostatic carci...

Urethral stones can become impacted in the posterior urethra, typically presenting with varying degrees of acute urinary retention and lower urinary tract symptoms. These are traditionally treated in the inpatient setting, with external urethrotomy or endoscopic push-back of the calculus into the urinary bladder followed by cystolitholapaxy or cystolithotripsy. However, these methods are invasi...

A 70 year old male presented with right lower quadrant pain and anorexia for about 72 hours prior to hospital admission. He underwent laparotomy with impression of acute appendicitis. The operative finding was an inflamed tumoral appendix without appendicular base involvement, and appendectomy was done. The patient had an uneventful post-op course. Due to the pathology report of prostatic ...

Transurethral resection of the prostate is the most common surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia. However, it doesn't work best for men with very large prostate and bladder stones. Herein we report our initial experience with concomitant laparoendoscopic single-site surgery and finger-assisted single-port transvesical enucleation of the prostate for the treatment of the condition.

Prostatic stones are a common condition in older men in industrialized countries. However, aging appears not to be the unique pathogenesis of these calcifications. Our morpho-constitutional investigation of 23 stone samples suggested that infection has a significant role in the lithogenic process of prostate calcifications, even without detection of infection by clinical investigation. Most sto...