Publications by authors named "Gregorio Hita Villaplana"

Objectives: Penile cancer is not very frequent. To control the disease oncologically, we must perform inguinal lymphadenectomy in cases of high-risk histology, poor prognosis and palpable lymph nodes. The open inguinal lymphadenectomy has a high rate of morbidity.

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Objective: Renal hydatidosis is caused by Echinococcus granulosus and is extremely rare, accounting for 3-4% of the cases of hydatidosis, being the third site after liver and lungs. It generally remains asymptomatic for years and the most frequent symptoms are pain, feeling of flank heaviness, and dysuria. In front of a compatible clinical picture, we studied the diagnostic, therapeutic, and follow-up schemes reviewing the literature.

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Objective: To report one case of metastatic prostatic carcinoma with a gaudy presentation as a lump which resulted to be a cutaneous metastasis.

Methods: We describe the debut in a patient, who thanks to the pathologic analysis of a lesion mimicking a lipoma, which was reported as adenocarcinoma, was worked up for prostatic adenocarcinoma and diagnosis was reached. We performed a bibliographic review using an electronic bibliographic search in PubMed (MEDLINE) using the terms "Prostatic Neoplasm" (MesH) AND "Neoplasm Metastasis" (MesH) AND "cutaneous" (free text).

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Objectives: The presence of intravesical foreign bodies is exceptional; it is not a common emergency. Most foreign bodies have a sexual-erotic origin, although we cannot forget others such as elements left by the surgeon in the surgical field. We performed a bibliographic review on the topic.

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Objectives: To report one case of severe lower hematuria 48 hours after urinary diversion by percutaneous nephrostomy for obstructive uropathy.

Methods: The clinical picture, its severity, and previous procedure probably causing it made the study by arteriography essential to identify the existence of an arteriovenous fistula after stabilization of the acute anaemia; it was confirmed and selective embolization was undertaken with an optimal result. We performed a bibliographic search on Pub-Med (MEDLINE) using the terms "percutaneous nephrostomy", "complications", and "arteriovenous fistula".

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Objectives: To report one case of flank pain irradiated to lower extremities, progressive paresthesias and functional difficulty leading to functional impotence of the lower limbs, and difficult voiding.

Methods: Neurologic physical examination showed abolished osteotendinous reflexes, indifferent plantar, L1 hypoesthesia, L3 anesthesia, and lower limbs hypotony. Multiple complementary exams were performed to get the final diagnosis of hemorrhagic necrotizing myelitis by MRI, after differential diagnosis with cavernous haemangioma.

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Objectives: To report one outstanding case of fever and flank pain with the radiologic finding of air outlining the whole left upper urinary tract (pneumopyelography).

Methods: The patient subject of this case had a history of gynaecologic surgery five years before presentation and subsequent diverticulitis one year later requiring discharge colostomy followed by reconstruction 7 months later. We performed a MEDLINE search using the terms "entero urinary fistula".

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Objectives: Testicular microlithiasis is an infrequent urologic diagnosis of non well-known etiology; it has been observed in patients with infertility, testicular atrophy, chromosomopathies, etc., and it had been considered as a benign non progressive disease for a long time. Recent reports have shown its occasional association with malignant tumors.

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