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Emphysematous urinary tract infection is a rare, life-threatening necrotizing infection characterized by gas generation, and usually occurs in patients with diabetes and/or urinary tract obstruction. We herein report a unique case of emphysematous renal infection occurred in. an old diabetic man with renal cell carcinoma. This case suggests that renal cell carcinoma should be also considered a rare cause of emphysematous renal infection showing mass contour.
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Humans , Carcinoma, Renal Cell , Urinary Tract , Urinary Tract InfectionsABSTRACT
Xanthogranulomatous epididymitis is an atypical form of severe destructive epididymal infection, characterized by massive inflammatory cell and foamy histiocyte microscopically. We report two cases of xanthogranulomatous epididymitis that presented as epididymal inflammation with fluid collection in old aged patients, and resulted in orchiectomy. We suggest that xanthogranulomatous epididymitis should be considered as one of the differential diagnosis in epididymitis with abscess formation.
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Humans , Male , Abscess , Diagnosis, Differential , Epididymitis , Histiocytes , Inflammation , OrchiectomyABSTRACT
It has been suggested that diseased and anomalous kidneys are more susceptible to injury. While horseshoe kidney is the most common congenital anomaly of renal fusion, occurring in about one in every 400-500 births, reports of the horseshoe kidneys associated with renal trauma are rare. Herewe now report our experiences with two cases of renal trauma on horseshoe kidney.
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Kidney , ParturitionABSTRACT
A review of 234 patients with cervical cancer during the last 5 years was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of routine cystoscopic examination in staging cervical cancer. Cystoscopic abnormalities suggesting bladder invasion of the cervical cancer were found in none of the 127 patients with clinical stage 1 and 65 patients with clinical stage 2. In 7(22.6%) out of 31 patients with clinical stage 3 and in 4(80%) out of 5 patients with clinical stage 4. markedly bullous edema and hyperemia suggesting suspicious bladder invasion was identified on cystoscopy. Mucosal biopsy was done in 5 or them which revealed no pathologic invasion. Incidentally found transitional cell carcinoma was found in one patient. From these observations, it can be concluded that routine cystoscopy is not recommended in cervical cancer with clinical stage 1 and 2, and is indicated only in clinical stage 3 or greater.