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The computed tomographic (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) appearance of a retrovesical leiomyoma in a male patient is presented. Although leiomyomas are common lesions, the location within the retrovesical pouch is very unusual.
A case of postoperative hyperemia of the glans penis following revascularization surgery for erectile impotence is described. This new surgical concept (Hauri) combines arterial revascularization with an arteriovenous shunt. The so-called 'postoperative hyperemia of the glans penis' is observed in 10-20% of the cases after arterialization of the dorsal penile vein, i.e. a pure arteriovenous shunt, and in 2-3% of the cases in arterioarterial anastomoses. The ulcers of the glans penis, which occurred 1 year after the operation, healed under careful local anti-inflammatory and antibiotic therapy.
We present 2 cases of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of the retroperitoneum. Only 12-14% of all MFH occur in the retroperitoneum. Both patients were operated with the diagnosis of a kidney tumor. The surgical exposure showed a tumor arising from the retroperitoneum, infiltrating or surrounding the kidney. We would like to emphasize that large tumors of the retroperitoneum which resemble kidney tumors can also arise from mesenchymal tissue.
Ninety-five patients with erectile dysfunction underwent standardized cavernosometry and cavernosography. In a first stage, the investigation was performed in each patient without and in a second stage with 60 mg papaverine injected intracavernously. A pathological maintenance flow rate between 20 and 120 ml/min decreased by 55% on average. The induction flow is of considerable variability and of poor diagnostic value. For quantification of venous leakage, the maintenance flow rate is of great importance and in correlation with the time of pressure decrease. Our results with a sensitivity of 59% suggest that cavernosography as the only screening method for venous leakage is not sufficient. In most of the cases, cavernosography is indicated only in consideration of venous leakage surgery.
According to our opinion, so-called venous leakage is no venous disease but a result of impaired cavernous tissue. Since in over 90% of all patients with venous leakage also arterial disease was discovered and since ultrastructural degenerative processes in the cavernous bodies were detected, we consider traditional corrective venous surgery as unphysiological and illogical. We suggest arterial revascularization combined with a mechanical penis banding as a new therapeutical concept.
Twenty-two patients with locally advanced prostatic carcinoma stage T3, N0, M0 have been treated with LH-RH agonists during a mean time of 5 months prior to radical retropubic prostatectomy. Although tumors appeared to be confined to the organ in 68% of the patients after endocrine treatment, pathological examination of the surgical specimens showed in 89% evidence of extraprostatic disease, which questions the clinical impression of 'downstaging'. A disparity between the tumor grade of the biopsy and that of the operative specimen as well as an increased size of tumor-involved lymph nodes despite endocrine treatment led us to speculate that a certain proportion of patients will bear the risk of disease progression during preoperative androgen deprivation. Furthermore, there was local recurrence early in the postoperative course and at the high rate of 39%.
Acute urinary obstruction is a painful occurrence well known to every physician. It is a matter of a reflexogenic closure of the bladder neck. As the nerves, regulating the neck as well as the motoricity of the bladder, extend directly over the capsule of the prostate, functional disorders during growth of the prostate are possible at any time, independent of the prostatic volume. Since in case of prostatic hyperplasia the smooth muscles of the bladder neck are partly transformed into fibrous tissue, drug treatment in case of acute urinary obstruction is impossible. Therefore catheterisation is applied now as before.
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During the past decade innovative research in physiology of erection and pathophysiology of impotence has brought a better understanding of the differential diagnosis and a new consideration of therapy in erectile dysfunction (ED). The basic anatomical structures and physiological mechanisms are described followed by a critical illustration of the various functional diagnostic tests. Intracavernosal injection with vasoactive agents proved to be the best functional screening test. The nocturnal continuous monitoring of penile tumescence and rigidity still appears to be of great value in the differential diagnosis of psychogenic impotence but is not frequently used as a routine investigation. Apart from the invasive methods as cavernosography, cavernosometry and selective penile arteriography the ultrasound examination using duplex scan or, in particular, the colored duplex scan (Angiodynography) turned out to be excellent tests to answer the vascular questions. For lack of an evident neurological test the diagnosis of neurogenic impotence is made by exclusion.
Among the therapeutical options surgical revascularisation represents the most physiological treatment of the wide-spread vascular impotence. In contrast isolated surgery on the penile venous system is rarely efficient. So far the most impressive results have been achieved by intracavernous injection of vasoactive drugs. External penile devices, such as the vacuum-constrictor-apparatus, were not successful just as the implantation of penile prostheses.
During 1986 and 1987, 47 patients with renal cell carcinoma were evaluated preoperatively with CT, angiography and MRI. The preoperative tumor stage (T), lymph node metastases and venous involvement determined with the three methods were compared to the operative and histopathological findings. For T stage, angiography proved less accurate (54%) than CT (64%) or MRI (63%). MRI was found to be superior to CT in assessing lymph nodes, with an overall accuracy of 89% and sensitivity of 100% compared to 77 and 60%, respectively, of CT. For venous involvement CT was overall more accurate (74%) than angiography (65%) or MRI (63%). All three methods expressed a low sensitivity (between 31 and 41%) and a high specificity (between 95 and 100%) for detecting venous involvement. The minimal advantages of MRI compared to its high cost do not justify its routine use. CT remains the method of choice in staging preoperatively renal cell carcinoma.
According to our opinion, so-called venous leakage is not a venous disease but a result of impaired cavernous tissue. Since in over 90% of all patients with venous leakage arterial disease has also been discovered, and since in addition ultrastructural degenerative processes have also been detected in the cavernous bodies, we consider the traditional treatment in the form of venous surgery unphysiological and illogical. We suggests arterial revascularization combined with mechanical penis banding as a new therapeutic concept.
Erectile impotency has an anatomic cause in 90% of the patients. Psychic problems may understandably develop later on. Rectal surgery can induce neural, arterial, or combined neurovascular lesions. Isolated vascular lesions cover, according to our experience, between 30% and 40% of the cases. They can be treated by revascularisation with a good success-rate. Good apprehension of topographic anatomy of nerves and arteries might preserve erectile potency in many patients.
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After complete resection of superficial bladder carcinoma (Tis-2, G1-3), 75 patients were treated prophylactically with either 20 or 30 mg mitomycin C. Six patients developed a substantial reduction in bladder capacity (less than 200 ml). In 2 patients radical cystectomy of an otherwise tumour-free fibrotic bladder was necessary. The results of long-term treatment (2 years) suggest that reduced bladder capacity correlates with the cumulative dosage of mitomycin C.
The goal of this study was to try to determine the effects of the Botulinum A Toxin on the spasticity of the rhabdosphincter in 9 men with spinal cord injury and detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia. The cystometrography, before and after the endoscopic injection of 100 units of Botulinum A Toxin, consisted of recording the bladder, urethral and rectal pressures with microtip transducers the anatomical position of which was radiographically controlled. The subjective and objective results of that study allow us to conclude that the Botulinum A Toxin has a place in the treatment of spinal injuries with detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia. Due to his blocking effect on the release of acetylcholine in the motor nerve endings, the Botulinum A Toxin suppresses or decreases the spasticity of the rhabdosphincter and improves voiding. Although its relatively short living action (2-3 months) may require renewed injections, it has the advantage to hold off a surgical treatment such as a sphincterotomy and to give the patient another chance to reach a balanced bladder function secondary to the postinjection changes of reflexes which may have taken place between the bladder and the rhabdosphincter and vice versa.
From May 1985 to February 1988, 61 patients with renal staghorn calculi (41 with incomplete C4 and 20 with complete C5 lesions) underwent extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy monotherapy. Of the patients 37 were treated without preoperative Double-J* stenting, while 24 underwent Double-J stenting before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. Of the patients with incomplete staghorn calculi (C4) and a preoperative ureteral stent 85% were free of stones after 6 months in contrast to only 52.4% of those without a stent and 85.7% of those with infected C4 calculi who underwent preoperative stenting. Hospitalization decreased from 17.7 days in patients without a stent to 14.2 days after stenting, followed by the number of auxiliary procedures (nephrostomy, Zeiss loop and ureteroscopy) and postoperative complications. Complete staghorn calculi (C5) without a preoperative stent had the smallest success rate of stone elimination: only 43.7% of the patients were free of stones after 6 months with a rehospitalization rate of 62.5%. For incomplete staghorn renal calculi (C4) extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy monotherapy with a preoperative Double-J stent is the noninvasive method that offers excellent stone elimination (85%), comparable to the results of percutaneous nephrolithotripsy (with or without complementary extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy) and anatrophic nephrolithotomy.