abstract：:We report a 49-year-old woman with exstrophy of the bladder. Our living case constitutes a rare example of bladder exstrophy cases, who lived about 50 years without any severe complication or intervention. ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Ozdiler E,Sarica K,Baltaci S,Işikay L,Koşar A,Yaman O

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different methods are available in the diagnosis and treatment of urethral strictures. True diagnosis is necessary for choosing the most suitable method of treatment and to inform the patient about the method, complications, recurrence rate and costs. In this study we aimed to compare the efficiency, complications and...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Bircan MK,Sahin H,Korkmaz K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonfunctional carcinomas of the adrenal gland are quite rare. By presenting a 47-year-old woman with such a tumour, a review of the literature is made, with special emphasis on the epidemiology and histologic criteria in predicting malignant behaviour. In addition, the clinical, pathological and radiographic findings,...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Fokaefs ED,Melekos MD,Melachrinou MP,Zarakovitis IE,Barbalias GA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuron specific enolase (NSE) is an isoenzyme of the glycolytic enzyme enolase. It is not only a marker for all types of neurons but also for all neuroendocrine or paraneuronal cells and various malignant tumours, even of non-neuroendocrine types. We had studied serum NSE in 25 consecutive patients with renal cell car...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Yaman O,Baltaci S,Arikan N,Ozdiler E,Göğüş O,Müftüoğlu YZ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephroblastoma (Wilms' tumour) is very rarely found in adult patients. We report on 10 cases to demonstrate the diagnostic and therapeutic problems. In case of flank pain, large tumour mass, fast tumour growth and young age, the possibility of Wilms' tumour should be taken into consideration even in adult patients. Th...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Winter P,Vahlensieck W Jr,Miersch WD,Vogel J,Gokel JM,Hellerich U

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of testicular microlithiasis in a 24-year-old man who was referred to us for evaluation of unclear ultrasonographic appearance of his testes while being examined for bilateral varicocele and epididymal cysts. Since testicular microlithiasis has been found to be associated with testicular germ cell tum...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Wegner HE,Hamm B,Loy V,Dieckmann KP

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Authors describe and discuss cases of massive haemorrhage after percutaneous nephrolithotomy. In 10 (0.3%) of 3080 patients who underwent PCNL massive haemorrhage from renal fistula drain or urinary bladder was observed. Renal arteriography was performed in this group of patients which revealed arteriovenous fistulae ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Sacha K,Szewczyk W,Bar K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Authors measured the thickness of the basement membranes of the proximal and distal tubuli in the renal cortex in 20 patients with verified diabetes mellitus. The test group consisted of 20 patients with small abnormalities of glomeruli (or in the range of variable norm), of the same sex and comparable age. Measuremen...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Danis D,Nyitrayová O,Slugen I,Kovác A,Nyulassy S,Orban A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our center between 1992 and 1994 penile Mondor's disease (superficial dorsal penile vein thrombosis) was diagnosed in 5 patients aged 20-39 years. In all patients the thromboses were noted 24-48 hours after a prolonged sexual act with or without an intercourse. the main symptom was a cord-like thickening of the sup...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Ozkara H,Akkuş E,Alici B,Akpinar H,Hattat H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on 9 cases of bladder augmentation with detubularized intestinal segments. The capacity of the contracted bladder was increased in 4 cases; care was taken to prevent the development of an hour-glass bladder. In a young female patient a caecal-ileal segment was applied so that in case of a possible f...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Pajor L,Koiss I,Nagy F,Kopa Z,Keszthelyi A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral vasovasostomies were performed in 7 previously vasectomized patients. The method employed was a modification of a one-layer anastomotic technique. There was no correlation between the presence of absence of sperm in the vas fluid, presence or absence of sperm granuloma, and site of vasectomy. No correlation ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Fuse H,Kimura H,Katayama T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Authors report on a case of Pseudomonas prostatitis complicated with a prostatoperineal fistula in continuity with the urethra that has been successfully treated with human fibrin sealant (Tissucol). ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Felipetto R,Viganò L,Cecchi M,Florentini L,Minervini R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of penile incarceration in a 53-year-old impotent man. The base of the penis was encircled by a metal ring in order to achieve better erection. There was marked oedema of the entire penis distal to the constricting ring. The metal ring was removed successfully by cutting it with a steel saw. ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Kadioğlu A,Cayan S,Ozcan F,Tellaloğlu S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retroperitoneal fibrosis is idiopathic in two thirds of cases and is found most commonly as an isolated fibrotic plaque centered over the lumbar spine and entrapping one or both ureters. It has been postulated that fibrosis in the idiopathic cases results from a hypersensitivity reaction to antigens leaking into the r...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Erton ML,Ilker YN,Ceyhan N,Akdaş A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the evidence of physical examination, history, and semen analysis, endocrinological alteration is suspected in the background of infertility in about one third of the husbands of couples consulting a doctor because of childless marriage. The data of 206 male patients have been processed, and in 71 cases the serum F...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Csenke Z,Török L,Szöllösi J,Scultéty S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of spontaneous right uretero-cutaneous fistula complicated by spontaneous rupture of the urinary bladder is presented. This morbid state is extremely rare and has not been previously reported to the best of our knowledge. ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Nishiyama T,Terunuma M,Sugahara S,Yahata K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 56 patients with haemospermia were reviewed. Twenty-four patients suffered from prolonged haemospermia for more than 1 month or recurrent haemospermia (refractory group). In 32 patients haemospermia disappeared within a month (non-refractory group). Patient age in the refractory group was significantly high...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Amano T,Kunimi K,Tokunaga S,Ohkawa M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating the reliability of using some clinical and laboratory parameters as long-term prognostic factors in properly selected patients for stress urinary surgery could help in the prediction of the long-term result in each case. Toward this goal 51 women were examined prospectively, after they were assessed by c...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Athanassopoulos A,Perimenis P,Markou S,Melekos M,Barbalias G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to evaluate renal injury relative to open surgery, percutaneous nephrolithotripsy (PCN) and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) were studied in 52 patients with renal calculus disease. Preoperative and postoperative urinary levels of N-acetyl-glycosaminidase (NAG), a sensitive marker of renal tu...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Sakkas G,Becopoulos T,Karayannis A,Drossos G,Giannopoulou K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genitourinary organs are at greater risk for multiple primary malignant neoplasms because of the high incidence of these tumours as primaries among all other organs. We present a case of prostate and bladder carcinoma metastasized to a single pelvic lymph node, called a "collision" metastasis, in a patient with four p...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Ergen A,Balbay MD,Irwin M,Torno R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of spontaneous rupture of the renal parenchyma are reported. Two patients had renal cell cancer, one sustained acute purulent pyelonephritis secondary to stone related ureteral obstruction, one suffered from aposthematous pyelonephritis without obstruction, while one had chronic pyelonephritis and a cortica...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Szentgyörgyi E,Kondás J,Varga S,Lörinczy D,Regös I,Kun I

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the two conventional surgical methods for varicocelectomy, 50 patients with varicocele were operated by using either the retroperitoneal or the inguinal techniques. Compliance with local anaesthesia was found to be poor in the retroperitoneal group. The operative time was significantly shorter (p = 0.00038)...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Ozkardeş H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of treatment by means of modified RLND in 52 patients with clinical stage I non-seminomatous testicular cancer are presented. Retroperitoneal lymph node metastases were found in 15 patients (28.8%) with clinical stage I (CS-I) diagnosed prior to surgery. They received chemotherapy according to PVB schedule...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Sosnowski M,Jeromin L,Płuzańska A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal oncocytoma represents a special category of renal tumours and accounts for 3-5% of renal neoplasms. Usually they are incidental findings. Most reports have demonstrated their benign nature but a few cases of high-grade oncocytomas were reported to have metastasized. In Poland, between 1971 and 1991, 7 patients (...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Dutkiewicz S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-four patients with testicular seminoma were treated at the Northern Israel Oncology Center during the years 1968-1988. Using the staging classification of Hussey, 69 patients (82%) had Stage I, eight (10%) had Stage IIA, four (5%) had Stage IIB, one (1%) had Stage IIIA, and two (2%) had Stage IIIB disease. Sixt...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Stein M,Steiner M,Moshkowitz B,Sapir D,Kessel I,Kuten A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of renal cell carcinoma with solitary metastasis to the bladder which occurred and was treated synchronously. The mode of spread and possible treatment modalities are discussed with relevant information from the literature. ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Uygur MC,Ozen HA,Sungur A,Remzi D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of cytomegalovirus infection in Chinese patients was reviewed in a retrospective study of 99 renal transplant recipients. CMV infection occurred in 18 patients (18.2%). In 4 the infection was considered primary and in 14 it was thought to be reactivation. Of the infections 88.9% occurred within the first...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Zhang XG,Chan MK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureteroscopy is now in routine use for the diagnosis and treatment of various pathologies in the upper urinary tract. We report here on our experience in diagnostic and therapeutic applications of the 11.5 F rigid ureteroscope in 85 patients and 88 ureters. An overall success rate of 68.18% (60/88) was achieved when t...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Ilker Y,Dillioğlugil O,Tarcan T,Türkeri L,Akdaş A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the safety and efficacy of mechanical cystolithotripsy (MCLT) and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in the treatment of vesical stones. In the last four years we have treated 144 bladder lithiasis patients with MCLT (86; group A) and ESWL (58; group B). All patients in group A were treat...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Bhatia V,Biyani CS

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 32 female patients with urinary stress incontinence who underwent a Stamey endoscopic bladder neck suspension were clinically and urodynamically studied pre- and postoperatively. Complete cure was obtained in 78% of the patients and improvement in 6%, the overall success rate being 84% for a mean follow-up ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Athanassopoulos A,Melekos MD,Speakman M,Perimenis P,Markou S,Barbalias GA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical study was designed to investigate whether extracorporeal shock waves altered the urinary excretion of glycosaminoglycans and if they have a diagnostic value in determining the extent of the renal tissue damage. A total of 25 consecutive patients were treated for renal stone by extracorporeal shock wave lith...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Alkibay T,Karabas O,Hizel N,Bozkirli I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A door to door survey of 38,805 persons from urban (9527) and rural (nontribal--19,716; tribal--9562) areas was carried out from 59 localities of Udaipur region to find out the prevalence of urinary stone disease. Simultaneously 118 water samples were also collected. The three sources of drinking water in these locali...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Singh PP,Kiran R

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), considered as a high risk for an operation because of severe accompanying disease, were treated with a self-retaining intraurethral catheter set. Two patients were judged unfit for operation (one because of severe cardiac failure, the other because of severe resp...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Fuse H,Okumura A,Sakamoto M,Katayama T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A unilateral adrenal tumour was incidentally detected in a 39-year-old woman with no characteristic features of Cushing's syndrome. Basal levels of glucocorticoids were within normal limits. However, abnormal pattern of plasma cortisol and ACTH was observed. The dexamethasone suppression test and the metyrapone test s...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Kodama C,Nakada T,Sasagawa I,Ishigooka M,Yamaguchi T,Suzuki H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to find out whether an improvement of vitamin D metabolism and its metabolites and a decrease of parathormones can be reached through a diet and UV irradiation. Forty-eight children with kidney insufficiency were divided into four groups: Group 1--diet according to Bergström with EAA and ceto...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Lemke E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To remove multiple calyceal stones percutaneously is not a simple task. During the act of dilating the pierced channel the stones are apt to drift away towards other parts of the renal cavitary system. For avoidance we recommend the use of Pyeloform, a bicomponent synthetic compound in which chemical reaction between ...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Nagy Z,Bulyovszky I,Székely J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new microsurgical techniques, tubule and loop intussusception, are compared to end-to-end and side-to-end in an experimental rat model. Sixty adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were operated on bilaterally under the same conditions. The four microsurgical techniques differ in approach to the inner mucosal layer, while...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Stefanović KB,Buncke HJ Jr,Clark SA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platinum (Pt) concentrations in the kidney and liver were determined in 12 autopsied cases following cisplatin treatment. The Pt level in the liver was generally higher than that in the kidney. Pt concentration in the liver showed a significant correlation with the total dose of cisplatin. However, no dose-dependent P...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Uozumi J,Ueda T,Yasumasu T,Koikawa Y,Naito S,Kumazawa J,Sueishi K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum, corpuscular and renal tissue phosphate (Pi) concentrations in normal and chronic renal failure rats were examined. A significant correlation was found between Pi levels and indications of renal function. In addition, there were significant relationships between phosphate levels and RBC, Hb, Hct, serum Fe, serum...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Hosokawa S,Yoshida O

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 42 neurologically normal children with different voiding problems have been studied urodynamically during the last 4 years. Seventeen patients had unstable bladder, with significantly decreased capacity. The degree of volume decrease depended on the severity of instability and on the type of micturition pro...

journal_title：International urology and nephrology

authors： Szabó L,Borbás E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00