Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in pregnancy masquerading as a degenerating leiomyoma.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is an increasingly common infectious complication of pregnancy. The diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB in pregnancy is hampered by many factors and thus often delayed, and that has the potential of increasing morbidity and mortality.

Case: This case involves a gravida with extrapulmonary TB, which was originally diagnosed as a degenerating leiomyoma.

Core cancer length in ultrasound-guided systematic sextant biopsies: a preoperative evaluation of prostate cancer volume.

Objectives: Evidence has been presented that biologic aggressiveness of prostate carcinoma increases with volume and that cancers less than 0.5 cc may be regarded as clinically insignificant for immediate treatment. We have analyzed the ability of core cancer length on needle biopsy to predict cancer volumes near the 0.

Spermatic cord metastasis from transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.

A case of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder metastasizing to the spermatic cord is reported. This represents the only clinically recognized site of tumor recurrence in a man treated with radical cystoprostatectomy followed by four cycles of adjuvant cis-platinum/methotrexate/vinblastine (CMV) chemotherapy for Stage D1 disease (local pelvic lymph node involvement). The existing literature concerning metastatic tumors of the spermatic cord is reviewed.

Large, organ confined, impalpable transition zone prostate cancer: association with metastatic levels of prostate specific antigen.

We present 3 of 25 patients with massive, occult transition zone cancers 7 to 86 cc in volume. Despite serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels of 150 to 456 ng./ml.