Is a coupled to the suitable for urethral-perineal reconstruction? Considerations about a relapsing urethral-cutaneous fistula condition.

This study highlights the effectiveness, in one surgical stage, of two combined local techniques for perineal fistula repair in a patient with spinal cord injury: the " and the " from the inferior gluteal fold. Unlike the traditional , we harvested a ; by definition, this is a flap with a narrow diffuse microvascular supply aimed in our case at shielding the neourethra and substituting the remaining scarred perineum. The urethroplasty technique adopted, the has been based on sculpting two opposing local cutaneous flaps circumscribing the fistulous cutaneous openings.

Infected kidney stone progressing to perinephric abscess and thoracic empyema.

A case is presented that demonstrates unusual long-term evolution of an infected calculi, culminating in the formation of a retroperitoneal abscess that fistulised to the pleural space, leading to a right pleural empyema.

Conservative Therapy in Two Cases of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma of the Penis: Case Reports With Review of the Literature.

The malignant lymphomas rarely occur in the genito-urinary tract and particularly penis lymphomas are extremely uncommon. Frequently they do not have any specific symptoms and the diagnosis is delayed even in presence of a penis node. In our hospital we observed two patients affected by Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL), one of them with a primitive disease.

Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder.

Background: Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder is a rare primary urologic disease, poorly responsive to radiation or chemotherapy as first-line treatment.

Case Report: After trans-urethral resection of the bladder, a 62-year-old woman was diagnosed with mucinous adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder. An upper gastro-intestinal endoscopy and a colonoscopy excluded any primary site of origin from those gastro-intestinal tracts.

Third-generation tension-free tape for female stress urinary incontinence.

Purpose: We reviewed our experience with the TVT-Secur tension-free tape for stress urinary incontinence in females. We evaluated operative time, complications, the continence rate and patient satisfaction at followup. Ethics committee approval was not required.