Endocrinogonadic implications in male uro-genital tuberculosis.

Unlike females, the endocrine gonadic syndrome in males usually accompanies the disorders of the excreting apparatus. Interpretation of the lesions as uro-genital tuberculosis has been commonly accepted in practice. Researches carried out in males, much fewer than in females, have showed a number of particular aspects of the syndrome.

Juxtavesical hydatid cysts.

Out of 177 different hydatid localisations 9 were juxtavesical. In 3 patients the cysts were recurrent. The diagnosis, based on the clinical and radiological examinations and exploration was facilitated by the history or the co-existence of other parasitic lesions.

Improved suprapubic vesical drainage in transvesical prostatectomy.

An improved drainage is used in transvesical prostatectomy in order to avoid urinary retention after removal of the Novak-type suprapubic drainage with bladder neck cerclage haemostasis (described by some authors in 1975). The causes of urinary retention are analysed, the drainage technique as well as the mechanisms eliminating the above-mentioned complications are described.

New aspects of urinary tuberculosis.

In urinary tuberculosis, during recent years, there has been remarkable progress in treatment but some new aspects are reported, which raise problems in diagnosis and therapeutics. There is an increase of silent forms, forms with rapid destructive development, even under treatment, and forms masked by association with other diseases. The percentage of elderly patients has increased, as has the number of cases presenting with advanced lesions with little clinical manifestation.