Development and implementation of an immunotherapy unit in a urology department.

Introduction: Immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer treatment, with monoclonal antibodies directed against checkpoint regulatory molecules currently being the most widely used therapy. A total of six immune checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) drugs have been approved by the U.S.

Double J catheter migrated to the bladder and encrusted. Case report and bibliographic review.

Objective: Urinary tract obstruction is one of the most prevalent diseases in urology. The handling of it includes conservative (analgesia and fluid therapy) and invasive (urinary diversion) measures. Ureteral stent is the method currently employed for urinary tract diversion.

Hypebaric oxygen treatment in urology.

Objectives: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) has been successfully used in several disorders derived from tissue hypoxia, due to the extra oxygen supply to the tissues it enables. In this manuscript we performed a systematic review including all the existing data published until 2010 about HBO in urologic disorders.

Methods: We performed a Medline search using the terms "hyperbaric oxygen", "radical cystitis", "interstitial cystitis", "hemorrhagic cystitis", "urological/pelvic fistula"and "Fournier's gangrene".

[Radiofrequency ablation as an alternative treatment for organ confined renal tumor].

Introduction: We report our early clinical experience associated with radiofrequency (RF) ablation in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and evaluate the efficacy, tolerability and complications.

Material And Methods: Retrospective review of patients treated in our hospital with kidney ecoguide RF. All of them diagnosed with renal tumor and not candidates for surgery because of bilateral tumor, significant comorbidity or refusal to surgical treatment.

[Primary bladder adenocarcinoma in unreconstructed exstrophic bladder].

We report a 60-years-old patient with a not repaired exstrophic bladder, who develops an adenocarcinoma on his bladder and review of the literature.

[Retroperitoneal malignant fibrous histiocytoma with contiguous organs infiltration].

Retroperitoneal tumours are extremely rare neoplasms, most of them malignant. We described the case of a 48-year-old man with a large retroperitoneal mass detected during the study of a constitutional syndrome. The mass was treated surgerically and pathological diagnosis was malignant fibrous histiocytoma.

[Spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage: our experience at last 10 years].

Introduction And Objectives: Etiology, clinical features, diagnostic methods and treatment of spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage were analyzed.

Methods: We report 27 cases with diagnosis of spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage treated in our hospital between January 1996 and December 2005. The imaging techniques were abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal CT scan and MRI.

[Indications, results and techniques of permanent prostate brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer].

Introduction And Objective: Prostate brachytherapy is a first-line therapeutic approach for localized prostate cancer in selected patients. We present our experience in brachytherapy and a thorough review of the literature.

Materials And Methods: A review of the literature and evaluation of patient's selection was done.

[Yield diagnosis of the peripheral cores in 10 needle extended prostate biopsy].

Objective: To value if the increase in the number of cylinders in the prostate's biopsy raise the diagnostic performance of this test.

Material And Method: In March 2005 we initiate this prospective study with patients who are subject to a first prostate Biopsy by a PSA between 4 and 10 ng/ml and negative rectal touch. Transrectal, echodirected prostatic biopsies with ten punctures are carried out according to the following programme as follows: 6 Biopsies according to classic sextant technique, to what we add 4 cylinders from the most lateral zones of the prostate (lateral horns).

[Comparative study between tobramicin and tobramicin plus ciprofloxacin in transrectal prostate biopsy prophylaxis].

Introduction And Objectives: To compare the efficacy of tobramicin and tobramicin + ciprofloxacin for prevention of transrectal prostatic biopsy infectious complications. We revised our complications, microorganism most common in the infectious complications, and their sensibility.

Material And Methods: Prospective and randomized study in 153 patients with 157 prostatic biopsies.

[Conservative surgery of bilateral renal angiomyolipoma during pregnancy].

The existence of bilateral renal angiomyolipoma (AML) is fairly infrequent, especially when not associated with such syndromes as tuberous sclerosis or linfangioleimiomatosis. Here we present the case of a 40-year-old woman who was accidentally diagnosed at week 33rd of gestation by an ultrasound, of bilateral renal AML and that could be treated with kidney sparing conservative treatment. We have also done a review of the literature focusing on its management and its relationship with pregnancy.

[Foreign bodies in the urethra and bladder: our experience].

We report the urethra and bladder foreign bodies seen in our department from 1976 to September 2004. We review the kind of the foreign bodies, the psychological profile of the patient, the clinical findings, diagnosis and treatment. We also review the literature about this matter.

[Prostatic abscess: report of a case and review of the literature].

Prostatic abscess is an uncommon entity nowadays due to widely use of antibiotics, however, in some patients, because of the seriousness, a quick diagnosis and interventionist treatment is required. We report a case of a 78 year-old male patient who had a torpid evolution and needed an urgent prostatectomy. We review ethiopathogenic factors, clinical findings, diagnosis and treatment of this uncommon entity.