Biomedical subjects
G F Abercrombie
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Polycystic renal disease--occurrence of malignant change and role of nephrectomy in potential transplant recipients.
28 cases of malignant renal neoplasms in patients with polycystic kidneys are reviewed from the literature and 2 new cases are reported. The difficulty in diagnosing this malignant change together with the increased survival of patients with polycystic kidneys on dialysis and transplant programmes leads to the recommendation that all such patients should be considered for nephrectomies. The reasons for this recommendation and its advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
Perianeurysmal retroperitoneal fibrosis: two cases responding to steroids.
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Abacterial cystitis.
5 young male patients with all the symptoms and signs of genito-urinary tuberculosis but in whom no organism could be cultured from the urine are described. 4 of them rapidly responded to a course of tetracycline. Various organisms are suggested as a cause of this condition, and careful bacteriological investigation in the future might discover the cause.
Carcinoma of the penis. Partial amputation of the penis.
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Letter: Price of prostatectomy.
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Ureteric obstruction due to peri-aneurysmal fibrosis.
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Recovery of ureteric function after ureterolysis in malignant retroperitoneal disease.
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Urinary retention and the lunisolar cycle: is it a lunatic phenomenon?
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a relation between urinary retention and temporal rhythms exists. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of patients presenting over three years. SETTING: Urology departments in two hospitals. PATIENTS: 815 Patients presenting as emergency admissions with urinary retention and requiring immediate decompression of the bladder. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Calendar date of each admission to determine circadian, monthly, and seasonal periodicity. RESULTS: No association was found between urinary retention and circadian, monthly, or seasonal rhythms. A significantly higher (p less than 0.001) incidence of urinary retention was observed during the new moon in comparison with other phases of the lunar cycle. CONCLUSIONS: Urinary retention is periodic in nature. This should be considered when the workload of a specialist urological department is organised.