[Impact of prostate cancer on the nervous system: two different cases and a review of the literature.].

We present two different cases of involvement of the nervous system due to prostate cancer. We know that atypical metastases can also affect supraclavicular lymphatics, adrenal gland and testicles. In these cases we present a typical places in the nervous system.

Bilateral nephrectomy as an extreme measure management for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): A case report.

Methicillin-resistant (MRSA) infections are cases of urgent management that often leads to hospitalizations in intensive care and prolonged management of antibiotic therapy. In this occasion, we present the case of a 38-year-old female patient with sepsis secondary to banal dermal infection due MRSA that complicates with infectious thrombus of the left renal vein associated with multiple foci of bilateral renal abscesses. As an extreme and exceptional measure, emergency bilateral radical nephrectomy was performed to save the patient's life.

Intraoperative radiotherapy during radical prostatectomy for intermediate-risk to locally advanced prostate cancer: treatment technique and evaluation of perioperative and functional outcome vs standard radical prostatectomy, in a matched-pair analysis.

Objective: To evaluate a novel approach with intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) administered in the surgical field, after pelvic lymphadenectomy (PL) and before radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP), evaluating acute and late toxicity, complications and biochemical progression-free survival (bPFS), as the adequate treatment of locally advanced prostate cancer is still a controversial issue.

Patients And Methods: Between June 2005 and October 2007, 33 consecutive patients with intermediate-risk or locally advanced prostate cancer were selected for PL + IORT + RRP. IORT was delivered by a mobile linear accelerator in the operating room (electron beam, 12 Gy at 90% isodose).