[PDF] Top 20 Int. braz j urol. vol.29 número3

... Doctor Prando from Vera Cruz Hospital, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, proposed on page 208 a radiological classification of renal angiomyolipomas after studying an important series of 127 tumors. The author, based on the ... See full document

... Surgical correction either by suprapubic or vaginal approach, intends to resolve the obstructive urinary picture, even though it is known that it can predispose to stress urinary inconti[r] ... See full document

... In 1990, Brito et al. reported 5 year follow up of 8 patients with solitary kidneys treated with SWL (34). The mean serum creatinine in these patients rose significantly, from 1.53 mg/dl pre-SWL to 2.31 mg/dl at 5 years ... See full document

... than 1.5 cm on ultrasound were proved to be an AML by helical-CT (Figure-3). Three of 16 lesions larger than 2 cm occurred in the renal sinus; b) Pattern-II AML, partially fatty, included 36 lesions (29%): this ... See full document

... The objective of the present work is to show the prevalence of major metabolic alterations found in patients with renal lithiasis coming from urban and rural zones of West region of Para[r] ... See full document

... Conclusion: Bisphosphonate was effective in the treatment of skeletal complications of prostate cancer, presenting an objective response in 90.6% of treated patients, with a marked impro[r] ... See full document

... All theses facts induce us to foresee that the treatment of BPH in a not-so-far future can become a public health problem for Brazilian society, since the current estimate would be of co[r] ... See full document

... The patient in this report presented untreated renal stone associated with renal colic, renal cavity infection, thoracocutaneous fistulization, cough, dys- pnea, and finally purulent exp[r] ... See full document

... We report two cases of intramural bladder leiomyomas in asymptomatic men observed inciden- tally by transabdominal ultrasonography during the follow-up of benign prostatic hyperplasia.. [r] ... See full document

... Djavan B, Shariat S, Fakhari M: Neoadjuvant and adjuvant alpha-blockade improves early results of high- energy transurethral microwave thermotherapy for lower urinary tract symptoms of b[r] ... See full document

... Results: A total of 27 patients with 28 hydroceles were enrolled in the aspiration and sclerotherapy protocol and compared with 24 patients with 25 hydroceles in the hydrocelectomy group[r] ... See full document

... A variant of collecting duct carcinoma is the medullary carcinoma of the kidney. This variant was described by Davis, Mostofi and Sesterhen (Am J Surg Pathol. 1995; 19: 1-11) which is believed to arise from the ... See full document

... This interesting case report carries an impor- tant message; despite several similar cases described, pheochromocytoma with hemorrhagic necrosis and spontaneous rupture with acute abdomen symptoms and shock is an ... See full document

... A variant of collecting duct carcinoma is the medullary carcinoma of the kidney. This variant was described by Davis, Mostofi and Sesterhen (Am J Surg Pathol. 1995; 19: 1-11) which is believed to arise from the ... See full document

... Purpose: We measured the impact brachytherapy monotherapy (BMT) has on general and disease spe- cific health related quality of life (HRQOL) compared to patients treated with radical pro[r] ... See full document

... An improvement in sphincter tonus by injecting autologous muscle derived progenitor cell injection has been demonstrated previously by another group (Strasser et al., Eur Urol. 2003; 43: A 350). This work was ... See full document

... (3) assessed the effects of DRE in 71 patients with prostate pathologies and 72 controls and found that some individuals with ini- tial PSA values up to 4.0 ng/mL presented a statisti- c[r] ... See full document

... Based on the review the authors recommend overnight observation after this surgery secondary to potential complications and discourage its performance as an outpatient procedure.. This i[r] ... See full document

... The authors report their experience with laparoscopic management of 84 children with 108 nonpalpable testes. Ultimately 28 underwent a single-stage laparoscopic orchiopexy and 29 underwent a 2-stage laparoscopic ... See full document

... Doctor Arruda and co-workers, from Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, presented on page 412 an interesting paper on a new modality of retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy as a comple- m[r] ... See full document