[Update of the morbidity of radical retropubic prostatectomy: retrospective analysis of 100 consecutive operations during the period 1996-1997].

Objective: To retrospectively evaluate the morbidity of radical prostatectomy, with the exception of sexual complications, based on a recent single-centre series.

Material And Method: From January 1996 to January 1998, the morbidity of 100 consecutive patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy was compared to the morbidity of the first 150 patients operated by the same technique in our department for the period 1983-1993. The perioperative morbidity was studied retrospectively on case files, while continence was evaluated in the last 50 patients by a self-administered questionnaire.

Indications for preoperative seminal vesicle biopsies in staging of clinically localized prostatic cancer.

Objective: To identify patients at high risk of extraprostatic seminal vesicle infiltration, in whom preoperative seminal vesicle biopsies should be performed.

Materials And Methods: We studied the relationship between extraprostatic seminal vesicle infiltration and the available preoperative data [age, clinical stage, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, number and site of positive prostatic sextant biopsies, Gleason score] in a total of 75 patients suffering from clinically localized prostatic adenocarcinoma who were candidates for radical prostatectomy.

Results: The chi 2 test showed that the preoperative data most significantly correlated with extraprostatic seminal vesicle infiltration were the presence of positive basal biopsies (p < 0.

[Renal varices. X-ray computed tomographic diagnosis and treatment by embolization].

Two cases of recurrent macroscopic hematuria in which the diagnosis of left renal vein varices has suggested on CT are described. Bloody efflux was seen from the left ureteric orifice. On CT scans, tubulated contrast-enhanced densities in left perineal fat were seen.

Magnetic resonance imaging of massive intracranial invasion by an ethmoidal adenoid cystic carcinoma (cylindroma).

Magnetic resonance imaging showed a massive intracranial invasion by an adenoid cystic carcinoma (cylindroma) originating from an ethmoid sinus. The tumor was excised and follow-up radiation therapy was planned because of bone involvement and superficial invasion of the right olfactory tract area.

Ablation of superficial bladder tumors with focused extracorporeal pyrotherapy.

Objectives: We report the first experimental studies of focused extracorporeal pyrotherapy.

Methods: Focused extracorporeal pyrotherapy has been used to treat superficial bladder tumors in a Phase II protocol in 25 patients. In 5 cases, for technical reasons, pyrotherapy was not used.