Diagnosis and management of small intestinal injury due to percutaneous renal access.

Purpose: Define factors for proper diagnosis and treatment of small intestinal injury during procedures with percutaneous renal access, thus optimizing favorable outcomes and avoiding complications and death during conservative or surgical approaches.

Materials And Methods: Bibliographic review of case reports available in the literature and presentation of data from an additional case have been carried out.

Results: Percutaneous nephrolithotripsy was the procedure that most frequently caused injury of the small intestine.

Study of testosterone as a predictor of tumor aggressiveness in patients with prostate cancer.

Purpose: A growing body of evidence suggests that low testosterone can be an independent predictor of adverse clinicopathological features and worse prognosis in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. However, this association is still incompletely understood and the results are divisive. The aim of this study was to analyze testosterone as a predictor of aggressive disease in subjects with clinically localized PCa.

Sex with animals (SWA): behavioral characteristics and possible association with penile cancer. A multicenter study.

Introduction: Zoophilia has been known for a long time but, underreported in the medical literature, is likely a risk factor for human urological diseases.

Aim: To investigate the behavioral characteristics of sex with animals (SWA) and its associations with penile cancer (PC) in a case-control study.

Methods: A questionnaire about personal and sexual habits was completed in interviews of 118 PC patients and 374 controls (healthy men) recruited between 2009 and 2010 from 16 urology and oncology centers.

Schistosomiasis mansoni of the bladder simulating bladder cancer: a case report.

The relationship between bladder tumors and Schistosoma haematobium is well known, but only sporadic cases of bladder infection due to Schistosoma mansoni have been reported. In this case, a 48-year-old woman with macroscopic hematuria, dysuria and a palpable abdominal mass was investigated. Ultrasound showed a large exophytic mass in the bladder.