We present a case of osteomyelitis requiring prolonged intravenous cephalothin complicated by symptomatic calcium oxalate urocalculi formation. Patients on long-term β-lactam antibiotics with lower urinary tract symptoms may have urolithiasis rather than a urinary tract infection.

BACKGROUND The diagnostic value of prostate volume results has been evaluated in patients with prostate problems of benign cause. METHODS For 247 patients, automated volume results were compared to manual results of planimetric reference volume and of the classical ellipsoid formula. Also, transition zone volume was estimated and growth curves of the prostate and prostate dimensions over age ...

PURPOSE To identify the minimum bladder diary's length required to furnish reliable documentation of LUTS in a specific cohort of patients suffering from neurogenic urinary dysfunction secondary to suprapontine pathology. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 2008 to January 2014, patients suffering from suprapontine pathology and LUTS were requested to prospectively complete a bladder diary for...

PURPOSE The prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms increases with age and impairs quality of life. Radical prostatectomy has been shown to relieve lower urinary tract symptoms at short-term followup but the long-term effect of radical prostatectomy on lower urinary tract symptoms is unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a prospective cohort study of 1,788 men undergoing radical pros...