Point-of-care manufacturing: a single university hospital's initial experience.

Background: The integration of 3D printing technology in hospitals is evolving toward production models such as point-of-care manufacturing. This study aims to present the results of the integration of 3D printing technology in a manufacturing university hospital.

Methods: Observational, descriptive, retrospective, and monocentric study of 907 instances of 3D printing from November 2015 to March 2020.

[Urethral stricture in women].

Unlabelled: To perform a bibliographic review on female urethra stenosis, following the criteria for evidence based medicine.

Methods: We performed a PubMed Search with the following keywords; "female urethral stricture ","women urethral stricture","female urethral reconstruction "and " female urethral stricture treatment ",without time limits, both in English and Spanish languages.

Results: Female urethra stenosis is a rare pathology, in which the working diagnosis is essential, as much as detailed physical examination, urodynamic study and radiological tests.

[Management of prostate cancer biochemical recurrence in the clinical guidelines].

Objective: Review of the Guidelines which have major impact on the urological field, in order to compare and to know their recommendations in the diagnosis and management of biochemical relapse after a healing treatment of prostate cancer (radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy).

Methods: We review the Guidelines of the European Urological Association (EAU), the American Urological Association (AUA), of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and those of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), as well as the scientific evidence on which they are based.

Results: In this paper we state the complexity of the subject being dealt with and coincidences and differences among them.

Effectiveness of two ultrasound-guided transrectal biopsy schemes in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. A randomized study.

Objective: To determine whether a 10-core prostate biopsy scheme is superior to the sextant scheme in diagnosing prostate cancer in patients programmed for a first biopsy, with negative rectal digital examination and PSA between 3.5-20 ng/ml.

Methods: A randomized prospective study was performed comparing two prostate biopsy schemes, with randomization stratification according to prostate volume (< or = 50 ml and > 50 ml).

[The usefulness of clinical history for the diagnosis of lower urinary tract obstruction in patients with acute urinary retention].

Objectives: To determine the diagnostic usefulness of data provided by clinical history for the diagnosis of lower urinary tract obstruction in patients with acute urinary retention.

Methods: We performed a transversal study in a series of 70 patients (19 women and 51 men) with a mean age of 61.5 years (typical deviation 20.