Urology
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Prostate cancer (PC) is a radiosensitive tumor, and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) has gained its place in the treatment of PC. The aim of this review is to provide the physician involved in the treatment of PC an overview of the current indications of EBRT, to focus on some recent developments in EBRT, and to highlight promising new indications for EBRT.
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To present the results of our experience with endoureterotomy as the initial management of ureterovesical junction obstruction (UVJO) with coexisting primary or secondary obstruction at the ureteropelvic junction (UPJO) level. ⋯ Performing initial endoureterotomy for the management of UVJO concomitant with UPJO provides promising results in spontaneous resolution of UPJO and complete resolution or decrease in hydronephrosis and can be proposed as an effective and safe temporizing alternative in selected patients.
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Case Reports
Xanthogranulomatous orchiepididymitis: a very uncommon cause of scrotal mass in childhood.
Xanthogranulomatous orchitis (XGO) is an extremely rare inflammatory destructive lesion of testis. We report a case of a 14-year-old boy who presented with painful right testicular mass and discharging scrotal fistulas. Serologic tumor markers were normal. ⋯ The definitive cure was achieved by orchiectomy and excision of the fistulous extension to the scrotum. Histopathological investigation was consistent with xanthogranulomatous process. Although XGO is very rare, the basic interest in the present report is considering this entity in the broad differential diagnosis spectrum of scrotal masses in childhood.