Idiopathic bilateral adrenal haemorrhage related to acute adrenal insufficiency.

A 54-year-old woman presented with sudden epigastralgia and left back pain. She had no significant history. Laboratory data showed mild inflammation and no liver or renal dysfunction.

Effects of direct injection of dehydrated ethanol on PC3 human prostate cancer cells in nude mice: preliminary study.

Objectives: The effect of direct local injection of dehydrated ethanol on hormone-independent prostatic carcinoma cells (PC3 cells) implanted in nude mice was investigated.

Methods: PC3 tumors were implanted subcutaneously into 30 nude mice. Three weeks later, dehydrated ethanol was injected directly into the tumors.

[Clinico-pathological investigation of upper urinary tract tumors in patients with normal renal function and in patients with end stage renal disease].

Aims: To clinically investigate upper urinary tract tumors in end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients.

Patients And Methods: Between 1988 and 2003, a study was made of 153 patients who underwent surgical treatment for upper urinary tract tumors in the Department of Urology, Tokyo Women's Medical University. Of these, 10 had ESRD while 143 had normal renal function.

Retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy: lateral versus posterior approach.

Purpose: We used a lateral or posterior approach to perform retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy for adrenal tumors and compared the results to determine which approach is more advantageous.

Patients And Methods: We removed 42 adrenal tumors from 42 patients by retroperitoneoscopic surgery. We used the posterior approach in 17 cases and the lateral approach in 25 cases.

Spoke-wheel-like enhancement as an important imaging finding of chromophobe cell renal carcinoma: a retrospective analysis on computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging studies.

Aim: Little information has been reported with regard to the radiological features of chromophobe cell renal carcinomas (CCRC). The aim of the present study was to identify imaging characteristics which lead to the histological diagnosis of CCRC.

Methods: The imaging findings of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were retrospectively analyzed in 11 patients with CCRC operated on at Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.

Impact of arterial occlusion during partial nephrectomy on residual renal function: an evaluation with (99m)technetium-dimercaptosuccinic acid scintigraphy.

Background: Partial nephrectomy (PNx) has been performed with temporary renal arterial occlusion and in situ renal hypothermia (conventional PNx). However, the impact of temporary renal arterial occlusion on residual renal function has not been well assessed. To address this question, we performed renal scintigraphy with (99m)technetium-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) for the quantitative measurement of postoperative residual renal function after conventional PNx and partial nephrectomy without arterial occlusion (non-clamping PNx).

Nephron-sparing tumorectomy for a large benign renal mass: a case of massive bilateral renal angiomyolipomas associated with tuberous sclerosis.

A case of massive bilateral angiomyolipomas (AML) associated with tuberous sclerosis in a 33-year-old woman is reported. She was hospitalized because she had been experiencing abdominal fullness and epigastralgia. Several imaging studies revealed massive bilateral renal tumors and she was diagnosed as having renal AML associated with tuberous sclerosis.