Impact of cell phone use on men's semen parameters.

The objective of the present retrospective study was to report our experience concerning the effects of cell phone usage on semen parameters. We examined 2110 men attending our infertility clinic from 1993 to October 2007. Semen analysis was performed in all patients.

Is treatment of hemorrhagic radiation cystitis with hyperbaric oxygen effective?

Objective: We report our own experience with the use of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) for the management of postradiation hemorrhagic cystitis.

Methods: We reviewed retrospectively 14 patients from 2001 to 2007 with different pelvic organ malignancies who developed radiation cystitis after irradiation. Patients received 100% oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber at a pressure of 2.

Clinical parameters and semen analysis in 716 Austrian patients with varicocele.

Objectives: To evaluate different clinical parameters in association with the presence and severity of varicocele in a large group of Austrian men.

Methods: Records of 716 consecutive patients with clinical varicocele and infertility, who visited our andrology unit from 2001 to 2007, were retrospectively evaluated. The presence, grade, and side of any varicocele were recorded; varicoceles were confirmed by Doppler sonography.

The use of body mass index to predict pathological stage in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer.

Background: To investigate whether body mass index (BMI) is an independent risk factor for nonorgan-confined disease in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer.

Patients And Methods: Overall, 735 patients undergoing radical prostatectomy formed the study cohort. Pathological and clinical factors with special emphasis to BMI were used to determine a model for the prediction of nonorgan-confined disease.

Adrenocortical carcinomas and adrenal pheochromocytomas: mass and enhancement loss evaluation at delayed contrast-enhanced CT.

Purpose: To retrospectively measure the adrenal gland attenuation and the percentage loss of adrenal gland enhancement at delayed contrast medium-enhanced computed tomography (CT) in patients with adrenocortical carcinomas and pheochromocytomas and to compare these data with those in patients with adenomas and metastases.

Materials And Methods: The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee, which waived informed consent. Eleven patients with proved adrenocortical carcinoma, 17 with proved pheochromocytoma, 23 with adrenal adenoma, and 16 with metastasis to the adrenal gland underwent helical CT.