Advanced small-cell bladder cancer into a ureterocele: A case report and literature review.

Small cell bladder cancer (SCBC) is found in 0.5-1.2% of all bladder tumors.

Bladder function in obstructed men - does age matter?

Aim: The high prevalence of diseases and disabilities in the elderly will therefore impose major future challenges for governments, particularly in social security, health system and social care.

Methods: Nine hundred and seventy-one men, 40 years or older referred for low urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) evaluation who underwent full urodynamic investigation, were reviewed. Urodynamic parameters were obtained, such as Uroflowmetry, those of Filling Cystometry and those of pressure flow study (PFS).

Relation between glycemic levels and low tract urinary symptoms in elderly.

Introduction: Due the low mortality attributed to BPH, the evaluation of the impacts of LUTS on quality of life of the patients has great importance, especially on the concern of therapeutic choices, except on cases of formal surgery indication. This increase is directly related with difficulties to perform ordinary tasks and a normal living in community.

Objectives: Determinate an association among Diabetes mellitus II and BPH symptoms in a group of elder men.

Effects of testosterone supplementation on prevention of age-related penile remodeling.

Erectile dysfunction develops among 46.2% of men between 40 and 70 years. Studies demonstrated substitution on detrusor muscle by collagen due testosterone deprivation.

Influence of oxidative stress on inducing micturition dysfunction following chronic infravesical obstruction and the protective role of an antioxidant diet - association of in vivo and in vitro studies in rats.

Objective: This study was developed to determine whether the generation of free radicals, induced by ischemia followed by reperfusion in a model of chronic intravesical obstruction in rats, would lead to damage in the detrusor. It also investigates the possible protective action of the flavonoid galangin on the tissue lesion induced by lipid peroxidation.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-one male rats were divided into three groups of seven animals each.

Female urethral carcinoma: evidences to origin from Skene's glands.

Purpose: Urethral carcinoma is among the rarest neoplasias of the genitourinary tract and its origin is unclear. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is considered an evidence of origin from Skene's glands. We considered the origin from these glands in PSA negative cases.

Structural abnormalities are similar in familial and nonfamilial mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.

Background/objective: Diffuse temporal lobe abnormalities can be observed on MRI of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). Our objective was to perform qualitative and quantitative analyses of temporal lobe structures in patients with familial MTLE (FMTLE) and nonfamilial MTLE.

Methods: Two groups of patients were ascertained: 67 FMTLE patients (14 with refractory seizures) and 30 patients with nonfamilial refractory MTLE.