[Diagnostic and prognostic contribution of electromyography in postoperative incontinence in men].

The authors have drawn up a classification of sphincteral lesions, using electromyographic criteria, with the aid of electromyograms of the striated sphincter of the urethra in forty eight patients treated surgically for prostatic adenoma, and presenting with postoperative incontinence persisting for more than eight days after removal of the catheter. This classification in turn serves as a basis for the drawing up of prognostic criteria for these incontinences, treated by electrotherapy.

[Cancer of the kidney in adult. Report of an homogeneous series of eighty cases (author's transl)].

The authors report their experience of cancer of the kidney in adults involving a homogeneous series of eighty operated cases. They draw from this experience several conclusions concerning the clinical, diagnostic, therapeutical and prognostic aspects and underline three points; the interest of arteriography combined with embolization, the significance of an enlarged nephrectomy without lymphatic evidement, carried out with the least damage possible, and the abandoning of pre- and postoperative radiotherapy. Results seem encouraging since the survival rate reaches respectively 87,5 p.