Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma in Students at a Dental Technical College: A Report of 3 Cases.

Bladder cancer is one of the main types of neoplasia affecting men, with the highest incidence reported toward the end of the seventh decade of life. Unlike other malignancies, bladder cancer is attributable to specific widely occurring carcinogenic risk factors in 60-70% of cases, and numerous professions have been linked to higher rates of the disease. The present study includes the cases of three male graduates (mean age, 23 years) from the same dental technical college, two of whom were students at the Faculty of Dental Medicine of the Iași University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Iași, Romania) at the time of diagnosis.

Is nocturnal enuresis a predisposing factor for the overactive bladder?

Background/aim: This study aimed to perform a limited observational study to ascertain whether there is statistical support that nocturnal enuresis (NE) is a predisposing factor in the development of overactive bladder (OAB).

Materials And Methods: The authors recruited patients diagnosed with OAB over a period of twelve months, and those who declared a history of NE were asked additional questions regarding the features of their NE.

Results: A total of 285 patients were diagnosed with overactive bladder, and 98 (34.

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy-associated granulomatous prostatitis mimicking prostate cancer on MRI: A case report and literature review.

Granulomatous prostatitis following bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy is a well-known pathological entity, developing following initiation of BCG therapy as a prophylactic measure against the recurrence of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. In addition, there are certain imaging similarities between granulomatous prostatitis and prostate cancer, including hypoechoic area on transrectal ultrasonography and low T2 signal intensity in some prostate areas on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This is the report of a case exhibiting a perfect imaging cross-match between granulomatous prostatitis and potential prostate cancer on repeated MRI exams, adding two supplementary aspects to the already known similarities, namely progressive restricted diffusion and increased contrast enhancement, which are specific to prostate cancer.

[Percutaneous nephrostomy complications in obstructive renal failure].

Objectives: The study aimed to identify the complications recorded at the patients with obstructive renal failure treated with percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN).

Material And Method: The retrospective study investigated the data of 244 patients admitted in our department and treated with percutaneous nephrostomy for obstructive renal failure during January 2005 - December 2007. Demographical data, investigation, indication, complications and hospital stay were recorded.

[Five years of kidney transplantation in Iaşi].

The activity of Renal Transplant Center Iaşi started in November 2000, when we realized the first renal transplant from a live donor. Since then, 46 renal transplants were successfully realized in our center, to patients aged between 13-47 years (medium age = 30 +/- 5), M/F=27/19, 25 (56.8%) of them selected from HD, 17 (39.

[Our experience in diagnostic and treatment of the upper urothelial tract tumours].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to analyse methods of diagnostic and treatment used in our clinic in patients with upper urothelial tract tumors in recent years.

Material And Methods: We studied retrospectively 117 files of patients diagnosed with upper tract tumors between 1996-2002.

Results And Discussions: The diagnostic was based in 99 cases by urography, retrograde pyelography or both, in 10 cases by cystoscopy (for intramural ureteral tumors), in 8 cases by ureteroscopy and one case was diagnosed by antegrade pyelography.

[The surgical problems of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: 3 years of experience].

Purpose: This study presents the surgical problems of CAPD catheter insertion and mechanical complications in 37 cases (39 peritoneal dialysis catheters inserted for CAPD), being our experience along a time period of 3 years.

Materials And Methods: The catheters were of Tenckhoff-type, with double Dacron cuff (Fresenius Medicale Care). We used an open-type surgical procedure with spinal anaesthesia.

[Is partial cystectomy a justified intervention in the treatment of bladder tumors?].

The authors present their experience of 122 partial cystectomy cases made on a number of 288 vesical tumors in our clinic, during 5 years (1986-1991) from which 23 are superficial tumors and 99 are infiltrative ones. The treatment of vesical tumors can be done in many ways; this partial cystectomy must be completed with an other therapeutic method: irradiation on chemotherapy in conformity with the anatomo-pathological form, the steady and tumoral grading.

[Tumors of the upper urinary tract. Apropos 35 cases].

Thirty-five cases of upper urinary tract tumors treated by the authors in an interval of 10 years (1979-1988) are presented. After a detailed analysis of the cases some general considerations on the anatomopathologic forms of upper urinary tract tumors, stage classification, symptoms and clinical and laboratory diagnosis, therapeutical indications are made.