[Idiopathic granulomatous orchitis: pathologic study of one case].

Objective: To report one case of idiopathic granulomatous orchitis, an extremely rare disease, in a 76-year-old patient.

Methods/results: The pathology department received a testicle with the clinical/radiological diagnosis of testicular tumor. The pathologic study showed absence of neoplasias and presence of morphological findings compatible with idiopathic granulomatous orchitis.

[Urological works and biography of Dr. Felipe Alcalá Santaella Nuñez (1927-1977). Historical documentary analysis].

Objectives: In the middle of the 20th century, Urology in Valencia was fully consolidated as a surgical speciality since Prof. Molla started it about the end of the 19th century; Dr. Felipe Alcala Santaella Nuñez stands out as the chairman of the Department of Urology of the "Hospital Provincial de Valencia", after his father Dr.

[Urologic work and biography of Prof. Rafael Alcalá Santaella (1896-1959). Historical document analysis].

Objectives: We find that Urology at the end of the 20th century was a consolidated speciality as a result of years of evolution and development, and the studies and works of authors whose contributions are considered today the basements of our speciality. So we think that Urology should be understood with its historical references, because, as Aristotle said "..