Impact of surgical delay on pathological findings and prognosis of patients with prostate cancer.

Purpose: To determine if a delay between prostate biopsy (PB) and radical prostatectomy (RP) has an impact on pathological findings and prognosis of prostate cancer patients (PCa).

Material And Methods: Patients (n = 232) who underwent RP, with at least two postoperative PSA readings.

Design: retrospective observational cohort study.

[Predictive factors of metachronous bladder neoplasm after nephroureterectomy].

Purpose: To determine prognostic factors of bladder recurrence in patients with upper urinary tract (UUT) urothelial carcinoma, who underwent nephroureterectomy.

Material And Methods: Patients (N = 51) with UUT transitional cell carcinoma who underwent nephroureterectomy. A retrospective and prospective observational cohort study was made during the period 1995-2007, at Arquitecto Marcide Hospital, Ferrol Health Area, La Coruña.

[Chylous ascites following radical nephrectomy and retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy].

Chylous ascites consists of the accumulation of chyle in the abdominal cavity. Postoperative presentation develops as a consequence of unrecognized injury of cisterna chyli or one of its major lumbar tributaries. It usually present as abdominal distention and pain or drainage of milky fluid from surgical wound or abdominal drain.

[Renal infarction in the evaluation of lumbar pain].

Objective: We report the case of a young patient without known cardiovascular risk factors, complaining of lumbar colic pain due to renal infarction.

Methods: Differential diagnosis of lumbar colic pain must include some rare events. We performed a review of the current knowledge on the topic.