Superselective vesical artery embolization versus intravesical formalin for intractable hematuria in patients with bladder cancer.

Objective: Intractable hematuria is a leading critical problem occurring in patients with advanced stage bladder cancer (BCa) that are not suitable for radical cystectomy. The present study, for the first time in the literature, aimed to compare the effectiveness of intravesical formalin (IF) and superselective vesical artery embolization (SVAE) in the management of intractable and life-threatening hematuria in BCa patients.

Methods: The retrospective study included 40 BCa patients who underwent SVAE or IF treatment due to intractable hematuria after failure of other methods.

Superselective vesical artery embolization versus intravesical formalin for intractable hematuria in patients with bladder cancer.

Objective: Intractable hematuria is a leading critical problem occurring in patients with advanced stage bladder cancer (BCa) that are not suitable for radical cystectomy. The present study, for the first time in the literature, aimed to compare the effectiveness of intravesical formalin (IF) and superselective vesical artery embolization (SVAE) in the management of intractable and life-threatening hematuria in BCa patients.

Methods: The retrospective study included 40 BCa patients who underwent SVAE or IF treatment due to intractable hematuria after failure of other methods.

Role of PSA Kinetics in Hormone-refractory Prostate Cancer.

Objective: To demonstrate the predictive effect of PSA derivatives and time markers that is prostate-specific antigen (PSA) doubling time (PSADT) and PSA velocity (PSAV) on survival in men with hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPCa).

Study Design: Descriptive, analytical study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Urology, Erciyes University, Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey, between 2012 and 2020.

Multiparametric MRI fusion-guided prostate biopsy in biopsy naive patients: Preliminary results from 80 patients.

Objective: The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the early results of transrectal prostate biopsies performed under the guidance of multiparametric prostate magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) in biopsy naive patients.

Material And Methods: Biopsy naive patients who had prostate-specific antigen level 4-10 ng/mL and/or abnormal digital rectal examination findings and provided informed consent were examined using mpMRI. The study included 80 patients with an MRI-defined lesion with a Prostate Imaging and Reporting and Data System (PIRADS) score of ≥3.

Can neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and lymph node density be used as prognostic factors in patients undergoing radical cystectomy?

Objective: To assessment the role of preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and postoperative lymph node density in predicting prognosis in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.

Material And Methods: Preoperatively, neutrophil and lymphocyte counts as well as neutrophil-lymphocyte ratios were recorded in 201 patients who underwent radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Patients with an infection were excluded.

The Treatment of Recurrent Urothelial Tumors of the Upper Urinary System and at Urostomy Site following Radical Cystectomy with Intraureteral Bacillus Calmette-Guérin and Cryotherapy.

Urinary bladder carcinoma is the second most common cancer of the urinary system. The recurrence rate in the upper urinary system (UUS) for urothelial cancers is around 3% following radical cystectomy. The followup generally consists of imaging studies and urinary cytology, although there are no prospective data on the frequency, the mode, and the duration of followup.

Small cell prostate carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature.

Small cell prostate cancer constitutes less than 1% of all prostate cancers and has a poor prognosis. A 60-year-old male patient presented with dysuria, pollakiuria, and nocturia of about 1-year duration.The total PSA level at admission was 47.

Primary obstructive megaureter with giant ureteral stone: a case report.

A 19-year-old male patient was admitted with flank pain, which had lasted intermittently for four years. In X-ray, there was a radiopacity with a dimension of 6 × 4 cm on the left pelvic bone. Intravenous pyelography revealed a huge left megaureter with a stone in the lower end and grade V hydronephrosis.

Assessment of the effects of zoledronic Acid therapy on bone metabolic indicators in hormone-resistant prostate cancer patients with bone metastatasis.

Purpose. Assessment of effects of zoledronic acid therapy on bone metabolic indicators in hormone-resistant prostate cancer patients with bone metastasis. Material and Methods.

What is the role of percutaneous needle core biopsy in diagnosis of renal masses?

Objective: To define the accuracy and acceptability of ultrasonography-guided percutaneous needle core biopsy in diagnosis of renal masses.

Methods: The data of 42 consecutive patients on whom needle biopsies were performed and were surgically treated for suspicious renal masses in our clinic between January 2001 and April 2008 were evaluated. In all patients, needle biopsies were done percutaneously with an 18-gauge needle under local anesthesia in prone position with ultrasonography guidance.

Anticarcinogenic and antimitotic effects of Turkish propolis and mitomycin-C on tissue cultures of bladder cancer.

The in vitro anticarcinogenic and antimitotic effects of propolis and mitomycin-C (MMC) on transitional carcinoma cell cultures were investigated. Tissue samples were obtained from 22 patients with bladder carcinomas, which were exposed to propolis (0.1 mL) and MMC (1.

Obturator nerve block and transurethral surgery for bladder cancer.

Aim: The obturator nerve may be accidentally stimulated during transurethral resection of lateral bladder wall tumors, causing adductor spasms. In this study, we evaluated the results of obturator nerve block (ONB) produced via a blind anatomical approach.

Methods: Between April 2004 and April 2006, 114 patients with bladder tumors located on the lateral bladder wall had undergone transurethral resection of the bladder tumor (TUR-BT) at our clinic.

Malignant transformation in abdominal cryptorchid testis 40 years after treatment of seminoma confined to other testis.

This report describes an exceptionally rare case of a 64-year-old man with seminoma in abdominal cryptorchidism, leading to intestinal obstruction 40 years after curative treatment for seminoma of the other (descended) testis.

Two-dimensional agnor evaluation as a prognostic variable in urinary bladder carcinoma: a different approach via total agnor area/nucleus area per cell.

Traditional criterions are not sufficient to predict accurately the recurrence of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the AgNORs via total AgNOR area/nucleus area (TAA/NA) for each cell as a prognostic parameter, in TCC of urinary bladder. Tumor tissues of 20 consecutive cases of male bladder cancer patients were divided into two groups as middle differentiated (LG) and high grade (HG).

Direct nipple ureteroneocystostomy in adults with primary obstructed megaureter.

Purpose: We evaluated the results of direct nipple ureteroneocystostomy technique in adults with primary obstructed megaureter.

Materials And Methods: Five patients with a mean age of 32.5 years had a total of 6 primary obstructed megaureters with complaints of flank pain.

Effects of sildenafil citrate on ejaculation latency, detumescence time, and refractory period: placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover laboratory setting study.

Objectives: To evaluate whether sildenafil citrate (SC) prolongs ejaculation latency and detumescence time and shortens the refractory period in a laboratory setting.

Methods: Two successive double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover laboratory studies were performed with 30 different healthy volunteers in each study (total of 60). In the first study, the subject ingested placebo or SC.

Does radical nephrectomy with immunochemotherapy have any superiority over embolization alone in metastatic renal cell carcinoma? A preliminary report.

Introduction: We evaluated the results and effects of radical nephrectomy followed by immunochemotherapy and embolization alone on the survival of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Patients And Methods: The study included 20 patients with histologically confirmed renal cell carcinoma. Ten patients were in the combined therapy group and the other 10 patients who were unable to undergo nephrectomy because of poor performance status or unresectable tumor were in the embolization group.

Does pleurodesis for pleural effusions give bright ideas about the agents for hydrocele sclerotherapy?

Objective: Evaluation of the effectiveness of rifampicin and some agents used in the pleurodesis of pleural effusions, such as autologous blood and purified mineral talc.

Patients And Methods: A total of 56 hydroceles were treated by sclerotherapy, in a random fashion, using purified mineral talc, rifampicin and autologous blood as sclerosant agents. The control group of patients were handled with aspiration only.

The effects of fluoxetine on several neurophysiological variables in patients with premature ejaculation.

Purpose: Fluoxetine, a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor, has been shown to increase the intravaginal latency of patients with premature ejaculation. We demonstrated the effects of fluoxetine on intravaginal latency, penile sensory threshold, and variables of sacral evoked response and cortical somatosensorial evoked potential in patients with premature ejaculation.

Materials And Methods: Of 48 patients 40 who presented to our clinic with premature ejaculation met the study criteria, gave written or oral consent, and were divided randomly in a double-blind fashion into 2 groups of 20 patients.

The first case of periureteric hibernoma. Case report.

Hibernoma is a rare type of soft tissue neoplasm originating from brown fat tissue. The present case is the first periureteric hibernoma concentrically surrounding the ureter with a concomitant renal pelvis stone.

Sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma of the right renal pelvis with liver metastasis: case report.

We report on a man with sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma of the right kidney with liver metastases. Bilateral renal lithiasis and well differentiated squamous cell carcinomas of the right renal pelvis were also noted. This uncommon case is discussed and the literature is reviewed.

[Evaluation of 18 epididymo-orchitis cases].

Eighteen patients with epididymo-orchitis were reviewed clinically, microbiologically and serologically. While there were positive urine culture in 5 patients before treatment, only one of them had positive culture in the epididymal aspirate. The epididymo-orchitis in two patients was the complications of the brucellosis.