Focal high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for localized prostate cancer: An interim analysis of the multinational FASST study.

Background: High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) emerged as a novel approach for the treatment of localized prostate cancer (PCa). However, prospective studies on HIFU-related outcomes and predictors of treatment failure (TF) remain scarce.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a multinational prospective cohort study among patients undergoing HIFU therapy for localized, low- to intermediate-risk PCa.

Recurrent residual or progressive varicose veins: postoperative long term follow-up of 353 patients.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the postoperative incidence of recurrent varicose veins (vv) and the possibility to differentiate the different types of recurrence.

Material Of Study: Patients who underwent surgery for saphenofemoral junction (SFJ) incompetence, great saphenous vein (GSV) varicosity and at least one perforator incompetence and varicosity of tributaries between January 1998 and December 2003 were selected for the study. Surgery consisted in SFJ flush ligation, GSV stripping, perforator vein ligature, and phlebectomies.