Minimally invasive retrieval of a retained Jackson--Pratt drainage tube using the Sachse urethrotome.

Objective: A retained postoperative drain tube, trapped by one or more of the sutures of the abdominal wall closure, is a rare complication of frustrating consequences and potential legal repercussions. There are few reports of techniques for minimally invasive removal of an anchored postoperative drain tube, which not infrequently has been treated by reopening the wound.

Method/result: A 75 years-old man with a left T2-T3N0M0 renal carcinoma was treated with transperitoneal laparoscopic nephrectomy and a Jackson-Pratt drain was left in place.

[Knowledge of the urogenital diseases in the work of Gaspar Casal, "natural and medical history of the Principality of Asturias" (1762)].

Objectives: Gaspar Casal (Gerona, 1680, Madrid, 1759) made most of his medical work in Oviedo (Asturias, Spain), where he lived for thirty-four years, before his return to Madrid as a doctor for the Royal House. Fruits of this work is the book "Natural and medical history of the Principality of Asturias" (Madrid, 1762), considered the best exponent of the Spanish medicine of the 18th century, and where the "disease of the rose", known later as pellagra or hypovitaminosis B, was first described in.

Methods: Study of the life of Gaspar Casal and analysis of "Natural and medical history of the Principality of Asturias", speculating on the knowledge about nephro-urologic and external genitalia diseases that can be deduced from the text.

[Secondary bladder amylodosis with severe recurrent hematuria: transurethral Mikuliz procedure as hemostatic option].

Objectives: Primary localized amyloidosis of the urinary bladder generally has a benign course. On the contrary, secondary amyloidosis, a consequence of systemic amyloidosis, may have massive bleeding and produce complications such as bladder rupture or lifethreatening hemodynamic problems requiring desperate hemostatic procedures such as hypogastric artery embolization or ligature, or cystectomy. We report one case in which hemostasis was achieved by a Mickulicz transurethral bladder tamponage.