This case describes a 50-yr-old man who was admitted to the Urology Ward upon the suspicion of a left kidney tumor. As part of the pre-operative check-up, an ultrasound and computed tomography of the kidneys were conducted. The results confirmed the initial diagnosis. The postoperative diagnosis was extra-adrenal pararenal phaeochromocytoma (ePCC) with succinate dehydrogenase complex, subunit B...

2–4. Pathology of the urinary system KH Consequences of renal failure. Basic mechanisms of renal failure (prerenal, intrinsic and post-renal), fundamental differences between acute and chronic renal failure. Various categories of renal disease e.g. congenital/inherited, circulatory, toxic, glomerular disease, tubulointerstitial disease, parasitic disease and neoplasia. Lower urinary tract (e.g....

Both age and prostate volume appear to influence the PSA level, and a varying set of normal values may be adopted. The relative benefit of radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy over watchful waiting for treating men older than 70 years with localized prostate cancer is extremely small.

Mr. R. W. LLOYD-DAVIES, Mr. R. H. PYNE, and Mrs. V. A. TIDY, Department of Urology and the Central Sterile Supply Department, St. Thomas's Hospital, London S.E.1, write: The essence of the technique of peritoneal dialysis is that it is a safe, inexpensive, and simple manceuvre which may be carried out in any general ward. There is at the present time no entirely satisfactory apparatus commercia...

The potential relationships between biofilm formation and pathogenicity of in urinary tract infections(UTI)were investigated. Over a 12-year period from 1991 through 2002, a total of 352 isolates were collected from patients with complicated UTI(one isolate per patient) at the urology ward of Okayama University Hospital. We analyzed the prevalence and transferability of genes encoding virulence...

1Department of Urology, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, 2Department of Urology, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, 4Department of Urology, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, 5Department of Urology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, 6Chiba Cancer Center, Chiba, 8Department of Urology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate Sc...

Department of Urology, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland; Department of Urology, Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Urology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany; Department of Urology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, Urologic Unit, University of Padua, Pa...

A 34-year-old man without previous medical history was brought to the Emergency Department (ED) after being involved in a motorcycle crash. He sustained trauma to the right side of the abdomen. On examination, multiple abrasions were noted in the right upper abdomen and the patient complained of severe pain. Bedside ultrasound was performed upon the patient’s arrival at the ED; it revealed a ma...

Audits of antibiotic prescribing were done for periods of up to eight weeks in two successive years on medical, surgical, orthopaedic, gynaecology, obstetric, and urology wards and in an accident and emergency department. Clinical details were matched with antibiotic prescribing, and the appropriateness of the latter was judged independently by two medical microbiologists. Only when they agreed...