Changes in Body Image in Patients with Prostate Cancer over 2 Years of Treatment with a Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Analogue (Triptorelin): Results from a Belgian Non-Interventional Study.

Background: Androgen deprivation therapy has been associated with worsened body image in prostate cancer patients. Body image and physical presentation changes were investigated in patients receiving a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue (triptorelin) as part of treatment for locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer.

Objective: The aim was to evaluate the changes in self-perception of the body and to assess the relationship of these changes over a period of 2 years in men treated with triptorelin as primary therapy for advanced or locally advanced prostate cancer.

Vaginal calculi in a young woman.

A case of a large vaginal stone in a 26-year-old woman is presented. Vaginal stones are relatively rare. Various causes can lead to vaginal stone formation.

Megalourethra and abnormalities of the cavernous bodies: cause of erectile dysfunction.

Megalourethra is a nonobstructive urethral dilatation associated with poor embryogenic development of the corpus spongiosum and occasionally with maldevelopment of the cavernous bodies. The two entities are distinguished arbitrarily: the scaphoid and the fusiform type. Although megalourethra may be an isolated entity, the association with concomitant upper urinary tract abnormalities is rather frequent.

Surgical approach of venous leakage.

Venous leakage is a cause of impotence easily demonstrated by dynamic cavernosography. It revealed dorsal venous leakage in 41 patients, perineal leakage in 15 patients and dorsal plus perineal leakage in 42 patients. Dorsal vein ligation was performed in 38 cases.

[Acute urinary retention secondary to cavernous metastases from a prostatic tumor].

Prostatic carcinoma metastatic to the penis is a rare phenomenon. We report two cases of acute urinary retention due to penile metastases from a prostatic carcinoma. Patients may have a penile mass or diffuse swelling of the penis.