Comparation between the Bricker ileal conduit vs double-barrelled wet colostomy after pelvic exenteration for gynaecological malignancies.

Background: After exhausting other therapeutic options, pelvic exenteration is performed in patients who suffer from relapsed gynaecologic tumours, with most of them requiring some sort of urinary diversion.

Material And Methods: The main objective of this study was to assess the short- and medium/long-term urinary complications associated with the Bricker ileal conduit versus double-barrelled wet colostomy after performing a pelvic exenteration for gynaecologic malignancies.

Results: A total of 61 pelvic exenterations were identified between November 2010 and April 2022; 29 Bricker ileal conduits and 20 double-barrelled wet colostomies were included in the urinary diversion analysis.

Malignant Triton Tumor of the Kidney. New Location Not Previously Reported.

Malignant triton tumor (MTT) is a variant of the peripheral nerve sheath tumor. It is very uncommon but shows an aggressive course and limited survival. Half of the cases present symptoms related to neurofibromatosis type 1 disease.

A flowgraph model for bladder carcinoma.

Background: Superficial bladder cancer has been the subject of numerous studies for many years, but the evolution of the disease still remains not well understood. After the tumor has been surgically removed, it may reappear at a similar level of malignancy or progress to a higher level. The process may be reasonably modeled by means of a Markov process.

A chemosensitivity test for superficial bladder cancer based on three-dimensional culture of tumour spheroids.

Objectives: Three-dimensional (3D) spheroids are a good model for studying in vitro chemosensitivity because they reproduce unicellular and multicellular mechanisms of drug resistance. We aimed to develop a chemosensitivity test for intravesical drugs and to also verify the effects of verapamil (VPM) and ciprofloxacin (CIPRO).

Methods: Cold cup biopsies from 40 superficial bladder tumours were taken, fragmented, and left in culture.

Wunderlich syndrome as first manifestation of infective endocarditis.

Infective endocarditis (IE) presents with several signs and symptoms that are mainly heart-related and the result of bacteremia. We describe the case of a woman with severe renal hemorrhage due to a septic embolic cortical infarction, who was also receiving anticoagulation therapy because of cardiopathy, whose retroperitoneal hematoma was the first manifestation of IE.