Bone and metabolic complications of urinary diversions.

Hyperchloremic metabolic acidosis is a complication of urinary diversion using ileum or colon. Its prevalence ranges from 25% and 46% depending on the procedure used and renal function of the patient. It is a consequence of intestinal fluid and electrolyte exchange between intestinal mucosa and urine.

Analysis of clinical-pathologic variables, staging and prognostic groups, and therapeutic results of 106 germ-cell testicular tumors.

Objectives: Retrospective review of 106 germ-cell testicular tumors treated in our center between 1992 and 2009.

Methods: Description and analysis of several clinical-pathologic and prognostic variables and survival analysis.

Results: 68% of our patients were diagnosed in the last 5 years.