Quantitative Evaluation of late Gadolinium Enhancement to the Differential Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer and Prostatitis in mpMRI.

Objective: To evaluate the late gadolinium enhancement ratio (LGER) quantitatively in late post-contrast images in multiparametric prostate MRI (mpMRI) for the differential diagnosis of chronic prostatitis and prostate cancer (PCa).

Study Design: Descriptive study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Radiology, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey, from January 2018 to October 2021.

Complete tear of ventral penile skin and penile urethra: a rare infective complication of chronic urethral catheterization.

We report the case of a 93-year-old paraplegic male patient who presented with complete tear of penile urethra and ventral penile skin due to indwelling urethral catheter. Therefore, debilitating patients with chronic indwelling urethral catheters should be in surveillance and caregivers of these patients should be alerted for such potential complications.

Efficacy of tolterodine as a first-line treatment for non-neurogenic voiding dysfunction in children.

Objective: To assess the effect of antimuscarinic treatment with tolterodine combined with behavioural modification as a first-line treatment, before invasive investigation, in children with non-neurogenic voiding dysfunction but no obvious anatomical or neurogenic cause.

Patients And Methods: The study comprised 44 children presenting with voiding dysfunction (30 girls and 14 boys, mean age 7 years, range 5-14); all had a noninvasive evaluation consisting of a history, urine analysis, renal and bladder ultrasonography and physical examination, with specific emphasis on the voiding pattern. Anticholinergic treatment with tolterodine (1 mg twice daily) was started in all patients; they were also informed about conservative management, including timed voiding, double voiding and relaxation of the pelvic floor during voiding.

Case report: Nonobstructive giant urethral stone with two safety pins.

The urethra can be the site of various types of foreign bodies. A 61-year-old man having a giant urethral stone with two safety pins was evaluated according to the literature. To our knowledge, we report the first case of foreign bodies in urethra in which existing non-obstructive giant urethral stone with two safety pins.