Evaluating the Efficacy of Employing Local Anesthetic Prostatic Blocks During Rezum Procedure.

Introduction Rezum is a minimally invasive, outpatient procedure using convective water vapor to relieve outlet obstruction from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Evidence on the technical approach of Rezum therapy, particularly pain control, is lacking. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of utilizing a local anesthetic prostate block for postoperative pain control during Rezum therapy for BPH.

An isolated case of an incidentally discovered neurofibroma of the urinary bladder.

Neurofibromas of the bladder are extremely rare tumors formed in peripheral nerves and are generally considered to occur in-conjunction with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1). The following is an isolated case of a 19-year-old, asymptomatic male patient presenting with bladder tumor discovered incidentally on CT-scan. The patient had no known family history or any exam findings consistent with NF-1.