Routine use of magnetic resonance imaging in the management of T(1c) carcinoma of the prostate: is it necessary?

Purpose: To assess the role and implications of MRI in the management of patients with stage T(1c) prostate cancer.

Patients And Methods: Data were collected from our oncology database, where all new prostate cancers are recorded, for a period of 3 years ending December 2005. A total of 915 patients were found to have prostate cancer.

Outcome and survival with nonsurgical management of renal cell carcinoma.

Objective: To document long-term survival in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in whom the primary tumour was left in situ and treatment limited to palliative and symptomatic measures.

Patients And Methods: All patients with a diagnosis of RCC from January 1994 to January 1999 and in whom the primary tumour was left in situ were identified from hospital records (nine women and 16 men, mean age 69 years). The tumour stage was T1-T4.

Testicular microlithiasis needs long-term surveillance.

We present a case of testicular microlithiasis in which testicular biopsy failed to predict the development of a testicular tumour.

Bladder dysfunction after simple hysterectomy: urodynamic and neurological evaluation.

Many women presenting with symptoms of bladder dysfunction relate their onset to the operation of simple hysterectomy. This study reviews the urodynamic findings in 126 women who had a simple hysterectomy, of whom 25 also had sacral reflex latencies measured. The results show that 47.