[Hypospadias: complications and adult sequalae]. / L'ipospadia: complicanze e sequele nell'adulto.

Hypospadia is a very frequent urogenital malformation. The authors consider the immediate disorders, the outcomes and the involvements in the adults and in the elders to the attempts of surgical regress.

[Validity of transrectal ultrasonography and echo-guided biopsy in the early diagnosis of prostatic neoplasms. Our experience on 100 cases]. / Validità dell'US transrettale e della biopsia ecoguidata nella diagnosi precoce delle neoplasie prostatiche. Nostra esperienza su 100 casi.

100 patients from age 50 to 80 that presented urinary obstructive symptoms were studied with digital examination and with TR ultrasound; only 10 were palpably suspicious for prostatic carcinoma, the rest had a BPH. These 10 patients and 32 of the remaining revealed an abnormal area with ultrasound. 6 of the 10 palpably suspicious patients had prostatic carcinoma (60%). 8 of the 32 remaining patients had prostatic carcinoma (25%). Therefore of the 14 prostatic carcinoma 6 were of palpably positive patients, and 8 were of palpably negative patients. We suggest with this work that transrectal ultrasound is a useful technique in the early diagnosis and in the follow-up of prostatic nodules, and it is a necessary support in the decision for effecting echo-guided biopsy.