Primary emergency considerations in urology from the critical care perspective include hemorrhagic, obstructive, infectious, and ischemic processes, in addition to a wide variety of general postoperative difficulties that may warrant emergent intervention. Oncologic emergencies also arise in urology and may require urgent critical care management. Urologic trauma (addressed in a separate sectio...

PURPOSE Actinomycosis is a chronic granulomatous infection caused by the gram-positive anaerobic bacteria, Actinomyces israelli. This paper reviews the etiology and clinical presentation associated with Actinomycosis that often presents as a pelvic mass that mimics a pelvic malignancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A combination of patients treated by the authors in the recent past and a literature r...

Cancer is a major health burden among non-communicable diseases, which has had a high impact on the healthcare system in Thailand. Based on GLOBOCAN, the prevalence of urologic cancer is increasing in Thailand. Prostate, bladder and kidney cancers are 6th, 15th and 22nd most common cancers, respectively, in both males and females. Prostate cancer is the fourth most common cancer in male. Cancer...

Treatment of pain of urogenital origin, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, can be frustrating for patients and physicians. The usual approaches do not always produce the desired results. Visceral pain from pelvic organs and myofascial pain from muscle trigger points share common characteristics. Referred pain from myofascial trigger points can mimic visceral pain syndromes and visceral pain syndrome...

Numerous urologic tissue substitutes have been attempted with both synthetic and organic materials (1). The first application of a free-tissue graft for bladder replacement was reported by Neuhoff in 1917, when fascia was used to augment bladders in dogs (2). Since that first report, multiple other free-graft materials have been used experimentally and clinically, including skin, bladder submuc...

Renal tumors other than Wilms’ tumor are infrequent in childhood. Wilms’ tumors account for 6% to 7% of childhood cancer, whereas the remaining renal tumors account for less than l%.27 The most common nonWilms‘ tumors are clear cell sarcoma of the kidney, rhabdoid tumor of the kidney (both formerly considered unfavorable Wilms’ tumor variants but now considered separate tumors), renal cell carc...

Background & objective:Primary pleural neoplasms are rare entities compared with the pleural involvement by metastatic carcinoma. The current study aimed at investigating the complete spectrum of pleural neoplasms and differentiating between them with the aid of immunohistochemistry (IHC). Methods: Consecutive pleu...

PURPOSE Urologic injuries occur frequently during surgery in the pelvic cavity. Inadequate diagnosis and treatment may lead to severe complications and side effects. This investigation examined the clinical features of urologic complications following obstetric and gynecologic surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS We accumulated 47,318 obstetric and gynecologic surgery cases from 2007 to 2011. Ninet...