Health-related quality of life after radical retropubic prostatectomy and permanent prostate brachytherapy: a 3-year follow-up study.

Objectives: To examine quality of life (QOL) for 3 years after radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) or permanent prostate brachytherapy (PPB) and to determine differences between the two procedures.

Methods: In all 107 patients who underwent RRP and 91 who received PPB between October 2005 and July 2007 were included in this study. QOL surveys were performed using the international prostate symptom score (IPSS), the Medical Outcome Study 8-items short form health survey and the expanded prostate cancer index composite at baseline and 1, 3, 6, 12 and 36 months after treatment.

Tertiary Gleason pattern 5 and oncological outcomes after radical prostatectomy.

Objectives: This study examined the rate of Gleason pattern 5 and the influence of tertiary Gleason pattern 5 on oncological outcomes.

Methods: Four hundred sixty-six patients underwent a radical prostatectomy between 1993 and 2008. Each surgical specimen was reviewed and assessed for the tumor diameter, Gleason score (which was based on the 2005 International Society of Urological Pathology Consensus Conference criteria) and the percentage of Gleason pattern 5.

[A case of retroperitoneal serous cyst resected by laparoscopic surgery].

A 40-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of pain extending from the left lateral abdomen to the left inferior limb. The abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed an 8x7x12 cm retroperitoneal serous cystic mass. The serum carcinoembryogenic antigen (CEA) level was slightly elevated to 2.