[Peyronie's disease. Evaluation of 3 therapeutic modalities: propoleum, laser and simultaneous propoleum-laser].

Objectives: To compare the results of treatment of peyronie's disease with propoleum, laser, and simultaneous propoleum-laser.

Methods: Prospective research. Twenty-eight patients with Peyronie's disease from the hospitals Freyre de Andrade,Fajardo, Clinico Quirúrgico y Habana Campo were studied between May 2002 and August 2003.

[Cystic renal papillary carcinoma. Apropos of a case].

Objectives: Papillary renal cell carcinoma is a malignant neoplasia which represents 5-10% of all renal cell carcinomas. We perform a bibliographic review, and detail the clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of the case, as well as its postoperative outcome.

Methods: 55-year-old patient who was admitted in the urology department from the emergency room.

[Study of propoleum dosage in Peyronie's disease].

Objectives: To determine the optimal dose for propoleum caps in Peyronie's disease.

Methods: We evaluated two groups of 17 patients each, analyzing pain and plaque size on physical and ultrasound examination, before and after treatment. Group A patients received caps with 300 mg of propoleum powder daily for six months, and Group B 900 mg.

[Propoleum and Peyronie's disease].

Objectives: Peyronie's disease is a plastic penile induration which represents a well-known problem affecting men in their middle age, who suffer penile incurvation during erections, pain and poor consistency at the site of incurvation. There is no satisfactory treatment for this disease. A patient with Peyronie's disease who received propoleum treatment for a giardiasis infection referred spontaneous improvement of this penile incurvation as treatment cycles were repeated.

[Renal cell carcinoma and simultaneous left varicocele].

Objectives: To report a rare case of left renal cell carcinoma causing simultaneous acute left varicocele. We also performed a bibliographic review.

Methods: We present the case of a male adult who was diagnosed as having a left varicocele during a medical exam at his work center and referred to the urology clinic.

[Simultaneous leiomyoma and transitional carcinoma of the bladder. Report of a case].

Objectives: To report this case of bladder leiomyoma, benign tumor of the bladder, due to its low frequency (0.43%) and to perform a bibliographic review.

Methods And Results: Case of a 46 year old female who refers a history of voiding symptoms, macroscopic haematuria with clots, asthenia, anorexia and right flank pain for 15 days prior to consultation.