Introduction: All men show characteristics of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) upon aging; it is the most common benign neoplasm in men. When the prostate is enlarged it causes a narrowing of the urethra leading to bladder outlet obstruction and reduced urine flow. The symptoms vary and include nocturia, incomplete emptying, urinary hesitance, weak stream, urgency and frequency to the develop...

Prostate cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed malignancies among the male population and the second common cancer-related death worldwide after lung cancer (Jemal et al., 2010). It is estimated that 30% of male older than 50 years are harboring microscopic transformation of adenocarcinoma within the prostate gland. Because of the dramatic rise in the incidence of prostate cancer with ...

BACKGROUND Cryptococcus is the third most common invasive fungal organism in immunocompromised patients, including transplant patients, and usually involves the central nervous system and lungs, with a median time to infection of 25 months. We report a case of Cryptococcus of the prostate gland, found as an incidental finding on prostate biopsy for prostate adenocarcinoma, four months following...

IMPORTANCE Targeted magnetic resonance (MR)/ultrasound fusion prostate biopsy has been shown to detect prostate cancer. The implications of targeted biopsy alone vs standard extended-sextant biopsy or the 2 modalities combined are not well understood. OBJECTIVE To assess targeted vs standard biopsy and the 2 approaches combined for the diagnosis of intermediate- to high-risk prostate cancer. ...

Chronic prostatitis (CP) refers to "inflammation" of the prostate and is thought to be related to either an acute or chronic infection of the prostate gland. It is important to distinguish chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) from other forms of infections of the prostate gland which include chronic bacterial prostatitis and acute bacterial prostatitis [1]. The aetiology, p...

Hajime Sugiura and Susumu Hasegawa Department of Urology, Nagoya City University Medical School (Director: Prof. N. Oka) Since our original report of transrectal approach using television fluoloscopy for roentgenographic visualization of benign prostatic hyperplasia, we have continued to apply this technique to the cases of benign hyperplasia, carcinoma, inflammatory disease and normal conditio...

Introduction Manual palpation through digital rectal examination is an established method for prostate cancer screening. Unfortunately, the technique is highly subjective and has limited spatial resolution. Prostate MR Elastography (MRE) could address these shortcomings by mapping stiffness throughout the entire gland. Recent work suggests that intracavitary approaches using transurethral actua...

Diffusion weighted (DW) MRI is increasingly being used to identify prostate cancer, in particular to delineate tumors within the central gland where T2-W imaging has poor contrast between benign and malignant nodules. Quantitation using Apparent Diffusion Coefficients (ADC) usually entails monoexponential fitting of the DW data and does not account for the contribution from intravoxel incoheren...

Erectile dysfunction is a common sequela following potentially curative local treatment for early-stage carcinoma of the prostate gland. With larger studies and longer follow-up, it is clear that erectile dysfunction following prostate brachytherapy is more common than previously reported, with a myriad of previously unrecognized sexual symptoms. Approximately 50% of patients develop erectile d...

Adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland presents with a wide variety of clinical findings, ranging from asymptomatic, relatively latent tumors to highly aggressive, metastasizing cancers. Tumors predominantly arise from epithelial cells in the peripheral zone of the gland. Tumors that progress, if untreated, will extend into the prostatic capsule and seminal vesicles, and will ultimately metastasi...