The role of urinary cytology for detection of bladder cancer.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to test the value of urinary cytology in the diagnosis of bladder cancer.

Materials And Methods: One thousand three hundred and eighty voided urine and bladder wash specimens of 495 patients were evaluated by urinary cytology. All patients then underwent transurethral resection of suspicious bladder areas if cystoscopy and/or preceding biopsy were positive.

[Primary sarcomatoid carcinoma of the ureter].

Introduction: We present a case of unusually rapid tumor progression in a patient with primary sarcomatoid carcinoma of the ureter.

Case Report: An 82-year-old female patient underwent total nephroureterectomy for a ureteral tumor that turned out to be a primary sarcomatoid carcinoma of the ureter. After a normal postoperative course, the patient developed a metastatic symptomatic that seemed to have appeared "like an explosion" on the 33rd p.

[Chronic prostatitis. Chronic pelvic pain syndrome].

The symptom complex called prostatitis represents a multifactorial problem of unclear etiology. Standardized diagnostic and therapeutic approaches do not exist. Controlled studies which fulfil evidence-based medical criteria are missing.

Risk adjustment for evaluating the outcome of urological operative procedures.

Purpose: Considerable public and media attention has been directed in recent years toward comparing performance at individual hospitals. So-called death league tables have been published in the media, ranking hospitals according to crude mortality rates. Crude rates of mortality and morbidity are clearly misleading.