Serum adenosine deaminase, catalase, and carbonic anhydrase activities in patients with renal cell carcinoma.

Objectives: To determine whether serum levels of adenosine deaminase (AD), catalase (CAT), and carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzymes may be useful biomarkers in the diagnosis of renal tumors and may lead to early diagnosis of renal tumors.

Material And Methods: The study included 33 patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and 31 healthy controls. The activity of serum AD, CA, and CAT was determined and analyzed using the Giusti spectrophotometric method, HO substrate, and C0 hydration, respectively.

Comparison of the efficacy of diclofenac, acupuncture, and acetaminophen in the treatment of renal colic.

Objective: The objective is to compare the analgesic effects of diclofenac, acetaminophen, and acupuncture in urolithiasis-driven renal colic pain relief.

Methods: Renal colic patients were divided randomly into 3 groups. Patients in group I (n = 40) were treated with intravenous acetaminophen, those in group II (n = 41) with acupuncture, and those in group III (n = 40) with a 75-mg intramuscular injection diclofenac sodium.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer differentiation via platelet to lymphocyte ratio.

Background: The aim of the current study is to evaluate NLR and PLR inflammation markers in PCa and BPH.

Methods: Clinical and pathological data such as age, prostate volume, PSA, NLR, and PLR levels of 201 patients were retrospectively reviewed. Pathological sample results of these patients were categorized either as benign or malign.

Peripheral mononuclear leukocyte DNA damage, plasma prolidase activity, and oxidative status in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Objectives: Prolidase plays a major role in collagen turnover, matrix remodeling, and cell growth. Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) may be associated with an increased extracellular matrix deposition. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate the plasma prolidase activity, oxidative status, and peripheral mononuclear leukocyte DNA damage in patients with BPH.

Conservative approach in the treatment of renal trauma in children.

Objective: Our aim was to evaluate the role of a conservative approach in the treatment of renal trauma in the pediatric age group.

Materials And Methods: A total of 31 pediatric patients with renal trauma (male = 25, female = 6) in whom we used a conservative approach in our clinic between the years 2002 and 2010 were included in the study. Patients were assessed according to the type of trauma, type of treatment, findings of radiological imaging, concomitant other organ injuries and complications occurring during follow-up.

Nature of lesions undergoing radical nephrectomy for renal cancer.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate retrospectively histopathologically-diagnosed lesions that were detected in the kidney after radical nephrectomy for a preoperative diagnosis of kidney cancer.

Methods: The medical records of 83 patients (51 male, 32 female) were included. Preoperative staging was accomplished by various methods including physical examination, blood hemography and biochemistry, abdominal ultrasonography (US), chest x-ray, abdominal computed tomography (CT) and abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Tissue damage in kidney, adrenal glands and diaphragm following extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.

This study was designed to investigate whether exposure to short-term extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) produces histologic changes or induces apoptosis in the kidney, adrenal glands or diaphragm muscle in rats. The effect of shock waves on the kidney of male Wistar rats (n = 12) was investigated in an experimental setting using a special ESWL device. Animals were killed at 72 h after the last ESWL, and the tissues were stained with an in situ Cell Death Detection Kit, Fluorescein.

Plasma human neutrophil proteins-1, -2, and -3 levels in patients with bladder cancer.

Objectives: Human neutrophil proteins-1, -2, and -3 (HNPs -1, -2, and -3) are expressed in several tumor types. However, the role of HNPs 1-3 in human bladder cancer has not yet been determined. We investigated the association between the plasma levels of HNPs 1-3 and clinicopathological parameters in bladder cancer patients.

Complete duplication of the bladder and urethra in the coronal plane: case report with review of the literature.

Complete duplication of the bladder and urethra without other congenital anomalies is a very rare congenital anomaly. We report the case of an 8-year-old boy with complete duplication of the bladder and urethra in the coronal plane, without any other associated congenital anomalies and without complaint associated with the urinary tract.

Serum prolidase activity, oxidative stress, and nitric oxide levels in patients with bladder cancer.

Objectives: Prolidase is a member of the matrix metalloproteinase family. It plays a major role in collagen turnover, matrix remodeling and cell growth. Nitric oxide (NO) regulates many processes such as collagen synthesis and matrix remodeling.

Effects of shock waves on oxidative stress and some trace element levels of rat liver and diaphragm muscles.

This study was designed to investigate whether the short-term extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) exposure to kidney produces an oxidative stress and a change in some trace element levels in liver and diaphragm muscles of rats. Twelve male Wistar albino rats were divided randomly into two groups, each consisting of six rats. The animals in the first group did not receive any treatment and served as control group.

Haptoglobin levels in Turkish patients with bladder cancer and its association with clinicopathological features.

Although alteration in the haptoglobin phenotype has been reported in patients with bladder cancer, serum haptoglobin levels have not been evaluated. We hypothesized that serum haptoglobin can be used as a biomarker. The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of haptoglobin in bladder cancer and to determine the relationship with clinicopathological features.

Effects of shock waves on oxidative stress, antioxidant enzyme and element levels in kidney of rats.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) on kidney oxidative stress and trace element levels of adult rats. Twelve male Wistar albino rats were divided equally into two groups. First group was used as control.

Serum trace element levels in patients with bladder cancer.

Trace elements are essential components of biological structures, but they can be toxic at concentrations beyond those necessary for their biological functions. In the present study, groups of 35 patients with bladder cancer and 34 healthy volunteer controls were measured for trace elements using a furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Serum levels of Cd, Ni and Co were increased (p<0.

Comparison of cystoscopy with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images used in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with bladder tumors.

Purpose: To compare diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) with cystoscopy in the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with bladder tumor and to investigate any histopathological correlation.

Materials And Methods: Totally 59 patients, between 31-85 years (mean age 60∓13) referred to our clinic due to a hematuria complaint were enrolled and evaluated by upper urinary system pathology and then DW-MRI (average 7 days) and cystoscopy. Apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) of images were calculated.

Ectopic intrauterine device in the bladder of a pregnant woman.

Background. Uterine perforation and transvesical migration of an intrauterine device are rare complications. Case.

Renal involvement in Brucella infection.

Objectives: To examine our patients with brucellosis and renal involvement. Although brucellae have been recovered from the urine of patients with brucellosis, renal involvement is uncommon.

Methods: The data from 15 patients (8 males and 7 females, mean age 43 +/- 18.

Severe complications of circumcision: an analysis of 48 cases.

Objective: Circumcision is still the most commonly performed surgery in Islamic and Jewish societies. We report the findings of 48 cases referred for serious complications after circumcision that needed secondary surgical interventions. The aim of this study is to emphasize the important problem of circumcision complications.

The protective effect of erythropoietin infusion on testicular torsion/detorsion: an experimental study.

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of erythropoietin (EPO) on the histopathology of testes after unilateral testicular torsion and detorsion.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-five male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 120 g were used in this study. The rats were randomly divided into three groups, a sham group consisting of five rats and the other two groups consisting of ten rats.

True hermaphroditism presenting as an inguinal hernia.

A 21-year-old patient with cryptorchidism was found to have a left inguinal mass on physical examination. The patient was operated with a diagnosis of bilateral cryptorchidism and left inguinal hernia. Besides bilateral inguinal undescended testicles, female genital organs like fallopian tubes, uterus and ovary were found on the exploration.

Reconstruction of wide scrotal defect using superthin groin flap.

Introduction: Grafts and flaps have been widely used to reconstruct scrotal defects due to Fournier's gangrene. Controversy still exists concerning the use of grafts and flaps because of the low protection provided by the grafts and the high volume of the flaps. We describe the use of an expanded groin flap for scrotum reconstruction.

Virtual computed tomography cystoscopy in bladder pathologies.

Objective: Assessed the usefulness of virtual cystoscopy performed with multidetector computed tomography (CT) in patients with different urinary bladder pathologies compared to the conventional cystoscopy.

Materials And Methods: Eighteen patients with different bladder pathologies, which consisted of 11 tumors, 3 diverticula, 2 trabecular changes and 2 stones, were assessed with conventional cystoscopy and virtual CT cystoscopy. The results of virtual CT cystoscopy were compared with the findings of conventional cystoscopy.

Inguinal approach in adult hydrocele surgery: preliminary randomized study.

This prospective study compared the effects of scrotal and inguinal approaches in hydrocele repair. Thirty-two adult patients, enrolled between January 1994 and May 2000, were randomly assigned to an inguinal (n=17) or a scrotal (n=15) approach. Scrotal size (at the surgical site) was measured preoperatively and postoperatively.

Urethrocutaneous fistula: a case report.

Background: A 16-year-old boy with penilurethra anomaly was admitted to our clinic. This is a case description of a hypospadiac congenital urethrocutaneous fistula of the anterior urethra.

Methods/results: After the chordee was corrected by removing dysgenetic tissue in urethral plate, urethral defect was repaired with tranverse preputial island flap.

Right renal stone on the trajectory of upper left ureter.

We report a 52-year-old woman with a right renal pelvic stone, mimicking a left upper ureteral stone in a kidney-ureter-bladder film. Computed tomography detected the exact anatomical location of the stone, which was not possible by intravenous urography and ultrasonography. In this study, we discuss diagnostic modalities of the urinary calculi in the light of the literature.