[Discontinued oral ciprofloxacin for transurethral resection of the prostate in patients with sterile urine without preoperative bladder catheter].

Objectives: To describe the rate of infectious complications using discontinuous oral ciprofloxacin in transurethral resection of the prostate. To weigh up the influence of clinical background, surgical complications and postoperative outcome on the development of such complications. To compare the results to those obtained will equal methodology using antibiotics until catheter removal.

[Reduced retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy for clinical stage I non seminomatous germ cell testicular cancer].

Objectives: The best treatment of clinical stage I non-seminomatous germ cell testicular cancer (NSGCTC) is controversial. Lymphadenectomy allows an adequate retroperitoneal staging and cures up to 70% of patients in pathological stage II. The objective of this study is to analyse our experience in the treatment of this patients with radical orchiectomy and reduced retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy (RRL) as the initial treatment.

Giant lithiasis in a female urethral diverticulum.

The formation of gallstones in a urethral diverticulum is a rare clinical entity and is usually seen in males. The case of a 50 year old woman is presented, who consults for hard vaginal mass and dispareunia associated with repeated urinary infections, with radiological images and an interesting photoendoscopic vision of the upper dome of the gallstone. The diverticulum was approached via vaginal way and the local extraction was successful.

[Antibiotics in transurethral resection of the prostate in patients with low risk of infectious complications: randomized prospective comparative study].

Objectives: To compare the rate of infectious complications using 2 antibiotic schemes in prostatic transurethral resection of the prostate (TUR-P) of patients at low risk, in order to reduce the use of antibiotics in this kind of patients. Secondarily, try to weigh the influence of clinical background, intraoperative complications and postoperative outcome on the development of such complications.

Methods: A comparative, prospective, randomized, open study was designed including 95 patients with sterile urine without indwelling catheter, subjected to TUR-P during one year.