Radical retropubic prostatectomy for prostate cancer with microscopic bladder neck involvement: survival and prognostic implications.

Objective: To report the oncological outcome of 106 patients who had locally advanced prostate cancer with microscopic bladder neck invasion, identified in a series of 1129 patients surgically treated with retropubic radical prostatectomy over a 12-year period.

Patients And Methods: All specimens were reviewed. Microscopic bladder neck invasion was defined as the presence of neoplastic cells within the smooth muscle bundles of the bladder neck, with no accompanying prostatic glandular tissue on the corresponding slide.

[Cavernous adrenal hemangioma. Observation of a case and the problem of differential diagnosis].

Cavernous hemangiomas of adrenal gland are rare. A case of adrenal hemangioma discovered by chance and removed surgically is reported. A review of the literature is also made.

[Intestinal metaplasia of the bladder].

Intestinal metaplasia is a rare condition characterized by the presence of colonic epithelium and mucin-containing goblet cells in the bladder. According to its extension we can distinguish localized from widespread intestinal metaplasia. We describe a case of glandular cystitis intestinal-type in a 58-year-old man whose clinical history and diagnostic work-up are consistent with this proliferative abnormality.