Presumed radically treated renal cell carcinoma--recurrence of the disease and prognostic factors for subsequent survival.

Objective: To gain knowledge about when, where and how metastases after presumed radical treatment for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are detected, and to use this information to establish a follow-up programme for radically treated RCC. Further aims were to establish survival rates, together with identifying prognostic factors influencing survival for different groups of patients after recurrence of the disease.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of 305 pT1-4N0M0/pT1-4NxM0 (clinically N0) tumours treated with nephrectomy was performed.

Renal cell carcinoma: gender difference in incidental detection and cancer-specific survival.

Objective: To look for an increase in the incidental detection of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) over the last two decades and to see if different patterns of healthcare use for men and women have implications for tumour detection and survival.

Material And Methods: We present an historical series of 368 consecutive patients treated with nephrectomy for RCC during the period 1978-2000. The patients were classified according to detection mode (incidental or symptomatic disease), TNM stage and cancer-related death.

[Renal cancer--a retrospective study of 368 patients].

Background: We wanted to evaluate our treatment results for renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of 368 patients operated with nephrectomy between 1978 and 2000 was carried out.

Results: 29% of the renal cell carcinomas were diagnosed incidentally and we observed a significant increase in this respect between the first and second half of the study.

[Postoperative urinary retention].

Background: Retention of urine is a common postoperative problem.

Materials And Methods: We present two patients with postoperative urinary retention. Current opinions on monitoring and treatment are reviewed.

Nephrectomy - indications, complications and postoperative mortality in 646 consecutive patients.

Objective: To gain information about the indications for and complications of conventional nephrectomy, also to create standards for future evaluation of nephrectomies performed by minimal invasive techniques.

Methods: We present a historical 20 years' series of 646 consecutive nephrectomies performed in the period of 1978-1997. Malignant disease led to the operation in 437 cases, of which 98 were urothelial tumors in the renal pelvis or ureter.

Survival after radical treatment for transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.

Aims: To investigate survival after radical treatment for transitional cell carcinomas of the bladder.

Methods: This retrospective study included 135 patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder undergoing radical cystectomy or radiotherapy at Haukeland Hospital, Bergen, Norway, during the period 1981-1986. Forty-five patients had cystectomy and 90 underwent external high-dose radiotherapy.

[Bladder rupture. Diagnosis, etiology and treatment].

The majority of bladder ruptures (80-90%) are caused by major blunt abdominal trauma. Penetrating injuries account for the rest. Bladder rupture is seen most often in patients with pelvic fracture.

Sliding of the compression hip screw in femoral neck fractures.

Backing out of the compression screw in the sliding screw-plate hip osteosynthesis was analyzed in a series of 71 hips with medial femoral neck fractures during an observation period of 12-42 months, with a median of 26 months. In addition to the compression screw device, a parallel cranial lag screw was used. A postoperative primary diastasis in the fracture space of 1-5 mm in 11 cases did not predispose to major sliding of the screws or to healing problems.