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S Esquena Fernández

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[Current status of radical laparoscopic prostatectomy].

Laparoscopic surgery can be said to have come of age when it was first indicated for cancer conditions. Advances in this field are largely due to the French school, which has made it a standard practise in prostate cancer. It complies with the principles required for cancer as well as conventional surgery, but it remains to be verified whether its long-term results, both from tumoral and functional perspectives, are not only similar to those of classical surgery, but even better. In fact, increasing numbers of clinical groups are incorporating this technique in their daily work.

Humans↗

[Renal hydatidic cyst simulating hypernephroma].

OBJECTIVE: To present a new case of hydatid cyst of the kidney with a difficult radiographic diagnosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We describe the clinical, diagnosis and treatment of a complex renal mass and its histological confirmation after surgery. Review of the literature. CONCLUSIONS: kidney's hydatidose is an unusual placement of this pathology. It is important to take care in the differential diagnosis in the context of complexes renal masses. There are some diagnosis procedures which can help us to establish it. Surgery is the treatment of choice in the majority of the cases.

Aged↗

[Inflammatory pseudotumor of the urinary bladder].

OBJECTIVE: To present a new case of inflammatory pseudotumor of the urinary bladder. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We describe the clinical, diagnostic and treatment of a new case of inflammatory pseudotumor of the urinary bladder in a 22 years old man without urological history. CONCLUSIONS: The inflammatory pseudotumor of the bladder is a rare benign lesion of unknown etiology. The most important histopathological differential diagnosis to consider is the rabdomyosarcoma. The immunohistochemistry study is basic in the diagnostic, characterization and differentiation of both pathologies. His benign development force us to a conservative management always it is possible.

Adult↗

[Von Hippel-Lindau disease: atypical presentation].

OBJECTIVE: To describe an atypical presentation of von Hippel-Lindau disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We present the clinical, diagnostic and treatment of the urological signs of this disease, which has overcoat a neurological management, in a young man with familiar history of it. CONCLUSIONS: The basic knowledge of the von Hippel-Lindau disease is important for the urologist because the urological signs of it, are common and they make up one of the most important causes of morbility and mortality.

Adult↗