Last year Prostate Action’s trustee Professor Roger Kirby led a team of seven doctors and two patients along a challenging route through the Himalayas, in memory of Richard Macaire, who was an avid supporter of Prostate Action and who sadly lost his battle with prostate cancer in 2010.
Selected patients with pudendal neuralgia, dupuytren’s contracture, low back pain responded favourably to education, postural advice, and mobilisation and exercises directed to the lumbopelvic region. Authors: Dornan, Peter R.1; Coppieters, Michel W.2 Corresponding Author: Dornan, Peter R. Affiliations (1): Peter Dornan Physiotherapy Centre (2): Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health, […]
In this edition of ‘Face to Face’, I talk with Michael Blute, MD, who is the Director of the Cancer Center of Excellence at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Memorial Health Care and the UMass Medical School in Worcester.
In this edition of ‘Face to Face’, I talk with Christopher Woodhouse, MD, FRCS, FEBU, Professor and Chief of Adolescent Urology at the University College London (UCL) Hospital.
In this edition of ‘Face to Face’, I talk with Laurence Klotz, MD, FRCSC, Professor, Department of Surgery, at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also the Chief of Urology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women’s College Hospital, also in Toronto.
Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most common welldifferentiated cancer of the thyroid. While regional metastatic disease to lymph nodes is most common, there have been rare cases of distant metastases to the kidney. We report a case of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with metastases to the prostatic urethra presenting as gross hematuria. Authors: Vora, […]
Calculi within urethral diverticula are a rare manifestation of urinary stone disease. We report a case of a 63-year-old male presenting with lower urinary tract symptoms, who was subsequently found to have two large calculi located within corresponding urethral diverticula. The patient underwent open urethrotomy, stone extraction, and primary repair of associated urethral diverticula. The […]
We present the case of a middle age male with ESRD with post transplant graft rejection, who presented with fever and left flank pain. Histopathology revealed a papillary cell carcinoma. Papillary cell carcinoma presenting as haemorrhage has not been previously reported in literature. Authors: Nadeem, Mehwash; Ather, M Hammad; Sulaiman, M Nasir Corresponding Author: […]
This report presents a case of a paratesticular lesion caused by Dirofilaria repens, a relatively rare human infection, treated by organ sparing surgery. Authors: Freifeld Y MD1*, Stein A MD1*, Nashashibi M MD2, Baneth G PhD3, Dekel Y MD1 1- Department of Uology, Carmel Medical Center and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel 2- Department of […]
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