Impact of a One-Stop Hematuria Clinic on Overall Survival and Bladder Tumor Recurrence.

Background And Objective: One-stop clinics have emerged as a tool to optimize the therapeutic management of cancer patients. The main purpose of this study was to assess the role of the one-stop hematuria clinic (OSHC), as compared to a conventional clinic (CC), on the overall and disease-free survival of patients with bladder cancer.

Methods: A five-year follow-up retrospective and single-center study was conducted in patients with primary bladder tumor diagnosed between 2006 and 2015.

Impact of Body Mass Index on Survival of Metastatic Renal Cancer.

Obesity has been established as a risk factor for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Recently, studies have described obesity as a probable protecting factor in the metastatic stage of RCC. In this study, we assessed the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and overall survival in patients under systemic therapy.

[Gross hematuria and usefulness of urinary cytology: Experience at hematuria one stop clinic.].

Objective: To report the diagnostic accuracy and liability of the instrumentalized urine cytology in the preliminary study of monosyntomatic gross haematuria.

Methods: A retrospective, descriptive and analytic study of the patients that complained of macroscopic hematuria at the one-stop clinic between 2011 and 2018. The complementary tests requested were: kidney/bladder ultrasounds, urethrocystoscopy and urinary instrumentalized cytology.

Laparoscopic Abdominopexy: Surgery for Vaginal Prolapse.

Objectives: We present a new surgery based on the round ligament anatomy that is called laparoscopic abdominopexy, which uses a synthetic mesh without fixation at any pelvic point. The aim of this study is to provide a step-by-step description of the laparoscopic abdominopexy technique and present the first anatomical and functional results of the procedure.

Methods: This prospective cohort study included patients with apical and anterior vaginal prolapse who were subjected to laparoscopic abdominopexy.

[Laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation.].

Although the laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation (LUR) has a history of over 20 years, its presence in the literature is relatively sparse, almost always in the form of small case series with low statistical power, which has prevented consistent results. It has proven to be a safe and effective technique, improving the safety profile and perioperative complications compared to open ureteral reimplantation (OUR). The few long-term results suggest a similar success rate between the open and laparoscopic approaches.

Intraoperative laparoscopic complications for urological cancer procedures.

Aim: To structure the rate of intraoperative complications that requires an intraoperative or perioperative resolution.

Methods: We perform a literature review of Medline database. The research was focused on intraoperative laparoscopic procedures inside the field of urological oncology.

Lymph node non-Hodgkin's lymphoma incidentally discovered during a nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma.

We report the case of a left laparoscopic nephroureterectomy with the incidental discovery of a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in one of the lymph nodes of the renal hilum. A laparoscopic nephroureterectomy was decided on for a 64-year-old man. Renal cell carcinoma in the kidney and one lymph node of the renal hilum with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was found.

Laparoscopic management of right renal angiomyolipoma with involvement of the inferior vena cava: case report and review of the literature.

This article reports the case of a 22-year-old woman with right renal angiomyolipoma (AML) and inferior vena cava thrombus. Laparoscopic right nephrectomy and thrombectomy were performed. To the authors' knowledge there have been only 46 reported cases of renal AML with endovascular extension and this is the first case to be completely removed by a laparoscopic approach.

Penile metastasis of prostatic adenocarcinoma. Case report.

Objective: Penile metastases are late manifestations of a primary tumor, and they are a sign of poor prognosis. We report a case of a rare presentation: penile metastases from prostate cancer.

Methods: 77 year-old male presented hematuria and acute urinary retention; on physical examination multiple hard lesions were detected.

Matrix metalloproteinase- 9 polymorphisms in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. A preliminary experience.

Unlabelled: Polymorphisms Q279R, P574R and -1562 C/T of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) gene have been linked with the risk of cancer and with tumoral aggressiveness in various types of cancer. So far there are no studies in the literature analysing the link between polymorphisms Q279R, P574R and -1562 C/T of MMP-9 and prostate cancer.

Objectives: To establish the presence of the MMP-9's gene polymorphisms (Q279R, P574R and -1562 C/T)in relation to results of prostate biopsy, PSA values and Gleason score.

Expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in prostate cancer. Preliminary experience.

Objectives: To study the validity of Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 as a complementary marker to PSA for the diagnosis and prognosis of Prostate Cancer.

Methods: Prospective study structured as a hospital-based cohort of 100 consecutive patients undergoing prostate biopsy. Serum determination of MMP-9 was carried out by means of inmunoassay.