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Angiomyolipoma/diagnosis , Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/diagnosis , Adolescent , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
A case of malignant variant of prostatic phyllodes tumour in a 61-yr-old man is reported. This is an extremely rare neoplasm that closely resembles the not uncommon tumour of the female breast. Only 18 previous cases have been described. Although an initially benign clinical behavior has been presumed a high probability of local recurrence or aggressive behavior may occur.
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Phyllodes Tumor , Prostatic Neoplasms , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Phyllodes Tumor/pathology , Phyllodes Tumor/surgery , Prostate/pathology , Prostatectomy , Prostatic Neoplasms/pathology , Prostatic Neoplasms/surgeryABSTRACT
One case of priapism occurred during heparin therapy for a previous surgical operation to the knee is reported. The association between heparin and priapism is often recognized; abnormal platelet aggregation could play a role in the pathogenesis of this side effect. A part from the kind of surgical treatment performed, priapism as a complication of heparin therapy might be functionally more severe than priapism due to other etiologies. Our observation would confirm this statement.
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Anticoagulants/adverse effects , Heparin/adverse effects , Priapism/chemically induced , Adult , Anticoagulants/therapeutic use , Heparin/therapeutic use , Humans , Male , Postoperative Complications/drug therapyABSTRACT
Sera from 209 dialysis patients were tested for antibodies to hepatitis C virus (anti-HCV) by a 2nd generation enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA 2) using nonstructural and core antigens. Confirmation of reactivity was obtained by a 2nd generation immunoblot assay (RIBA 2) for antibodies to 4 separate antigens (5-1-1, c100-3, c33c, c22-3). ELISA 2 was positive in 99 sera, 95 of which were confirmed by RIBA 2, thus accounting for an anti-HCV prevalence of 45.5%. Anti-HCV positivity was correlated to longer duration of dialysis therapy (p less than 0.001), higher number of transfusions (p less than 0.001), history of kidney transplant (p less than 0.001) and of serum alanine/aspartate aminotransferase (AST/ALT; p less than 0.001) or gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) (p less than 0.001) increments. The most frequent RIBA 2 patterns were: reactivity to all 4 antigens (34 patients) and to c33c and c22-3 (45 patients). The former patients, compared to the latter, had higher values of AST (p less than 0.08), ALT (p less than 0.02), GGT (p less than 0.005), IgG (p less than 0.05). It is possible that the reactivity to all 4 antigens of RIBA 2 is a clue of a greater activity of viral hepatic disease.
