Postoperative influence of interferon alpha on patients with renal cell carcinoma.

The aim of this study was to show whether immunotherapy should be administered in patients with renal cell carcinoma after radical nephrectomy in N0 and N1 stage of disease. The research was conducted in 60 patients with renal adenocarcinoma after radical nephrectomy. The study group included two subgroups of patients: the treatment group consisted of 30 patients receiving immunotherapy, of whom 15 had N1 disease stage and 15 had N0 disease stage; and the observation group consisted of 30 patients who did not receive immunotherapy, of whom 15 had N1 disease stage and 15 had N0 disease stage.

[Current diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to invasive bladder cancer].

Introduction: Bladder cancer is the second most common urological cancer (after prostate cancer, and before kidney and testicular tumors). After setting a diagnosis for bladder cancer, transitional cell carcinoma (TCC), 25% of pts have extravesical spread of the disease, and almost 50% dies in the follow-up period and after radical surgical procedures. About 30-40% pts develop a recurrence, even after radical cystectomy is preformed, and with negative lymph nodes.

[The use of rigid ureteroscope in the treatment of ureteral steinstrasse after extra corporeal shockwave lithotripsy of renal calculi--case report].

Introduction: Exracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) is the first choice for patients with urolithiasis. Increased use of endoscopic techniques provided increased use of ureteroscopic lithotripsy in the treatment of stones located in distal ureter, as well as ESWL. Rigid ureteroscope is usually used in the management of distal ureter stones, while middle and upper ureter stones should be treated by flexible ureteroscope or ESWL.

[Morphology of the renal pelvis and elimination of fragments after ESWL treatment of lower calix calculi].

Introduction And Objective: A prerequisite for successful outcome of exatracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is effective stone fragmentation. Despite successful stone fragmentation, complete clearance of stone fragments cannot be achieved in every patient, due to various factors. The aim of this prospective study was to determine morphological factors that affect clearance following successful stone fragmentation by ESWL.