Two instillations of epirubicin as prophylaxis for recurrence after transurethral resection of Ta and T1 transitional cell bladder cancer: a prospective, randomized controlled study.

Background: Although transurethral resection (TUR) is the standard treatment for non-muscle-invasive bladder tumors, 40-80% of tumors recur in spite of complete resection.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy, dose effectiveness and safety of early short-duration intravesical instillation therapy using epirubicin (EPI) administered immediately after TUR and on the next day following TUR.

Patients And Methods: Between 1995 and 2001, 303 patients with Ta and T1 non-muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma were enrolled in this study.

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the kidney with renal artery penetration.

Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) is a quasineoplastic lesion that most commonly involves the lung and the orbit; kidney involvement is rare. We report a case of inflammatory pseudotumor of the kidney. The patient was a 61-year-old man who presented with no symptoms.

The female partner's satisfaction with sildenafil citrate treatment of erectile dysfunction.

Background: Data on female partners' satisfaction are scarce, although there have been many articles on patient satisfaction after sildenafil citrate treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction of female partners of patients receiving sildenafil citrate for their erectile dysfunction (ED) and to assess the female partners' sexual function.

Methods: Ninety-eight patients with ED were treated.

Comparative study of ureteral stripping versus open ureterectomy for nephroureterectomy in patients with transitional carcinoma of the renal pelvis.

Objectives: To evaluate the clinical outcome of nephroureterectomy with endoscopically assisted transurethral ureteral stripping for transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis in a comparative study.

Methods: Sixty patients with localized renal pelvic cancer were enrolled in a prospective comparative nonrandomized study. Of these, 28 patients underwent nephroureterectomy with endoscopically assisted transurethral ureteral stripping and 32 underwent conventional nephroureterectomy with a bladder cuff.

Retroperitoneoscopic nephropexy for symptomatic nephroptosis.

Purpose: Recently, laparoscopic nephropexy has been performed using a transperitoneal approach. We evaluated the efficacy of a retroperitoneoscopic technique for symptomatic nephroptosis.

Patients And Methods: Three men and two women with right nephroptosis underwent retroperitoneal laparoscopic nephropexy.

[The analysis of thymidine phosphorylase examined by ELISA in bladder cancer].

Purpose: Some reports suggest that the high level expression of thymidine phosphorylase (TP), which is known as one of angiogenic factors, is related to high malignancy and also poor prognosis in the field of gastrointestinal cancer. So the authors investigated the expression of TP in bladder cancer.

Materials And Methods: The expression of TP in cancer tissues and normal tissues, which were obtained during transurethral resection of the tumor of 66 patients with initial primary bladder cancer, was examined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).