[Management of acute prostatitis, based on a series of 100 cases].

Objectives: To evaluate the current diagnostic and therapeutic management of acute prostatitis.

Material And Methods: The authors report a series of 100 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of acute prostatitis managed between January 1999 and December 2003. They analysed the clinical and laboratory data and imaging findings leading to the diagnosis of acute prostatitis and then the modalities of treatment and follow-up of these patients.

[Prevalence of osteoporotic fractures in patients treated by androgen blockade for prostate cancer].

Introduction: Endocrine therapy is the standard first-line treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. The use of this treatment modality for a number of years in a large population has demonstrated some of its iatrogenic complications, especially bone complications. Hypogonadism induced by chemical castration can be responsible for osteoporosis that may be complicated by fractures.