Corporeal plication for surgical correction of penile curvature. Experience with 60 patients.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of tunica albuginea plication without excision in patients with congenital and acquired penile curvature.

Methods: Results were retrospectively analyzed in 60 consecutive patients treated from 1982 to 1996. Mean age was 42.

Genitourinary tuberculosis: rapid diagnosis using the polymerase chain reaction.

We present the case of a patient with suspected genitourinary tuberculosis in whom confirmation by direct smear examination was negative. Detection of mycobacterial DNA by use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) established the diagnosis, which was confirmed by culture 4 weeks later. Given its very high sensitivity and positivity, PCR may become the method of choice for rapid diagnosis of genitourinary tuberculosis and institution of therapy.