Schinzel-Giedion syndrome.

A 2-month-old girl was brought to the Department of Pediatrics at Wakayama Rosai Hospital because of poor feeding since 1 month of age. She was the third child of young healthy non-consanguineous parents whose first son was healthy but whose second son had died of 18 trisomy. Physical examination showed midfacial hypoplasia with coarse dysmorphic features, choanal stenosis, remarkable abdominal distention and bilateral talipes equivarus.

[A case of retrovesical fibrosarcoma with severe hypoglycemia].

We report a case of retrovesical fibrosarcoma with severe hypoglycemia. A 67-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with second recurrence of the retrovesical tumor with hypoglycemia. The episodes of hypoglycemia were accompanied by the advance of tumor size.

[Clinical evaluation of patients with relapsed prostatic carcinoma].

A retrospective clinical study of 41 patients with prostatic carcinoma relapsing after endocrine therapy at Wakayama Medical College from 1972 to 1987 was reported. Patient's age was from 51 to 80, with an average of 69.8 years.

[Renal cell carcinoma associated with tuberous sclerosis: a case report].

Renal angiomyolipoma associated with tuberous sclerosis is well known. On the other hand, few cases of renal cell carcinoma in connection with tuberous sclerosis have been reported. We report a patient with tuberous sclerosis whose kidney was involved with renal cell carcinoma.

[Occupational uroepithelial cancer: current status in Wakayama city and clinical study].

According to the records of Wakayama Labor Standard Office, at least 1,085 workers had been exposed to benzidine or beta-naphthylamine in the dyestuff factories in Wakayama City. By October 1988, 101 of them (9.3%) were confirmed to have urinary tract tumors.

Urethral remnant tumors following simultaneous partial urethrectomy and cystectomy for bladder carcinoma.

Partial urethrectomy (at least to the bulbous portion) was performed simultaneously in 128 consecutive male patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Transitional cell carcinoma developed subsequently in the distal urethral remnant in 5 patients (4.0%) followed for 2.

Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin treatment for superficial bladder tumours.

Intravesical instillations of Tokyo 172 strain BCG were given to 56 patients with superficial bladder cancer during the 24-month period after transurethral tumour resection as a prophylaxis against tumour recurrence. The recurrence rate of tumours was compared with that of historical controls. Results were estimated by the person-years method and there were statistically significant decreases in recurrent tumours following BCG therapy.

[Clinical studies on urinary tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA): problems and improvement in determination].

The reliability of measurement of urinary TPA using a Prolifigen TPA kit (Sangtec, Sweden) was investigated, and an improved method for stabilizing TPA was tested. Samples were filtrated with a cellulose nitrate membrane filter to remove impurities as a possible cause of a high false positive rate which has been a problem in urinary TPA measurement. Serum TPA and Tween 40-treated urinary TPA was not adsorbed by the filter, whereas TPA in the non-treated urine showed a marked affinity to the filter.

Nephrectomy in situ: treatment of ureteral fistula due to progressive malignancy.

The authors report 2 patients with recurrent retroperitoneal neoplasms in whom ureteral fistulas were treated successfully by percutaneous transcatheter embolization of the renal artery with absolute ethanol. Angio-occlusive nephrectomy is suggested as an alternative to surgical nephrectomy in seriously ill and high-risk patients to preserve their quality of life.

Occurrence of uroepithelial tumors of the upper urinary tract after the initial diagnosis of bladder cancer.

We treated 519 patients with primary bladder cancer, of whom 12 had upper urothelial tumor during followup. Almost all patients had superficial bladder cancer at diagnosis. All but 1 of 12 patients who underwent total cystectomy with ileal conduit diversion also underwent various transurethral procedures for treatment of the primary bladder lesions.

[Foreign body in the kidney: report of a case].

A 49-year-old man was admitted with the suspicion of renal foreign body. A fragment of wire rope was penetrated from his right lumbar region while working. Drip infusion pyelography and computed tomography films revealed a linear metallic object in the region of the right kidney.

[Adrenal incidentaloma: report of eight cases].

Since 1983, eight cases of adrenal incidentaloma were experienced at the Department of Urology, Wakayama Medical College and affiliated hospitals. Six adrenal masses were incidentally detected by computed tomography, and two were first noted by either ultrasonography or intravenous pyelography. Surgical exploration was performed in all cases as the final diagnostic measure.