[Mepartricine and prostatitis. Clinical experience and rationale for use].

Background: The purpose of this study was to report our experience on the use of Mepartricine in the treatment of chronic and sub-acute prostatitis and to analyse, on the basis of the literature, the role of estrogens, the target of Mepartricine in the development and maintenance of prostatic inflammatory reactions.

Methods: In a retrospective study the data of 110 patients who presented with lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of prostatitis, from January 1994 to February 1999 have been evaluated: 65 of this patients had an abacterial prostatitis, and 45 a bacterial prostatitis. The Mearers-Stamey test was used to localize inflammation and pathogens to prostate.

[Renal angiomyolipoma: diagnostic approach and therapeutic up-date; report of 11 clinical cases].

Eleven cases of renal angiomyolipoma are reported. In all cases a correct preoperative diagnosis was made, using standards x-radiography, ultrasonography and computerized tomography. Small size AML do not generally require any surgery, while surgical procedures for larger AML vary depending on the size, associated diseases, other complicating factors.

[Renal-colonic-cutaneous fistula secondary to xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis].

The appearance of intestinal fistulas secondary to kidney disease is a rare occurrence. Even rarer are complex fistulas involving several organs or systems [correction of apparati]. In this study, the authors report on a case of reno-colo-cutaneous fistula which set in as a complication of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis.

[10 cases of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis].

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) is a chronic inflammation of the kidney usually associated with renal stones, recurrent urinary tract infections or endocrine disorders. A correct preoperative diagnosis is rarely made, since no specific clinical or radiological pattern is known. Differential diagnosis must include renal tuberculosis and renal carcinoma.