4 results match your criteria: "Department of Urology Yamagata Tokushukai Hospital Yamagata Japan.[Affiliation]"
Key Clinical Message: Undiagnosed female megalourethra can be a cause of iatrogenic bladder foreign body.
Abstract: Foreign bodies in the urinary bladder are relatively rare. Female megalourethra is an extremely rare congenital disorder which is usually associated with Müllerian anomalies.
Androgen deprivation therapy is a standard of care for metastatic prostate cancer. A paradoxical approach utilizing high doses of testosterone in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients demonstrated clinical responses. Here, we report on four heavily pretreated Japanese patients (including one patient on hemodialysis) successfully treated with supra-physiological doses of testosterone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Two percent of testicular germ cell tumors occur in family clusters. Here, we report metachronous testicular germ cell tumors in two brothers.
Case Presentation: An elder brother was diagnosed at the age of 30 years old and the pathological diagnosis was mixed testicular germ cell tumor.
Article Synopsis
- * A case study details a 71-year-old woman with muscle-invasive urothelial cancer who experienced severe complications post-surgery, including leukemoid reaction and hypercalcemia, alongside elevated tumor markers.
- * This case is unique as it reports the first instance of urothelial cancer testing positive for four different tumor markers, highlighting the potential for aggressive bladder cancers to secrete multiple proteins that cause diverse symptoms.