This report highlights a presentation of urinary calculus impacted at the urethral meatus and bedside extraction after evaluation with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Visualization of a stone at the urethral meatus prompted a point-of-care ultrasound of the penile shaft and glans. The ultrasound ruled out anatomic variations such as urethral diverticula and as a result bedside removal was exp...

INTRODUCTION Urethral caruncles usually arise from the posterior lip of the urethral meatus. Although the etiology of urethral caruncles is still undetermined, they are the most common benign tumors of the female urethra. Most cases are frequently asymptomatic, but, sometimes patients feel a lump or bleeding at the urethral meatus. Symptoms are dysuria, dyspareunia, hematuria and rarely asensat...

Tissue engineering-based urethral replacement holds potential for repairing large segmental urethral defects, which remains a great challenge at present. This study aims to explore the potential of combining biodegradable poly(l-lactide) (PLLA)/poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) scaffolds and human amniotic mesenchymal cells (hAMSCs) for repairing urethral defects. PLLA/PEG fibrous scaffolds with vari...

1. Good RA. Agammaglobulinemia: a provocative experiment of nature. Bull Univ Minn Hosp Min Med Found 1954; 26:1-19. 2. Levinson AI, Hoxie JA, Kornstein MJ, Zembryki D, Matthews DM, Schreiber AD. Absence of the OKT4 epitope on blood T cells and thymus cells in a patient with thymoma, hypogammaglobulinemia, and red blood cell aplasia. J Allergy Clin Immunol 1985; 76: 433-9. 3. Oshimi K. Granular...

BACKGROUND Thrombopoietin (TPO), the major hormone controlling platelet production, has been measured in thrombocytopenias with discordant results. The aim of our work was to assess the value of the TPO assay for differential diagnosis of thrombocytopenias in a large cohort of patients classified according to the results of their platelet isotopic study. METHODS We measured TPO (R&D Systems) ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE High-resolution MR imaging enables direct imaging of the ocular motor nerves. The aim of this study was to assess the various causes of congenital or developmental neuropathic strabismus by using high-resolution MR imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS High-resolution MR imaging was performed to evaluate the ocular motor nerves (CNIII, CNIV, CNVI) in 247 consecutive patients w...

Urethra Secondary cancer Urethral caruncle Abstract Secondary female urethral cancer presenting as urethral caruncle is extremely rare. We report a primary ovarian adenocarcinoma in a 78-year-old female patient presented initially as a urethral caruncle. This case represents the first reported case in the world literature. The clinical features, investigations and pertinent literature are revie...

PURPOSE We report the efficacy of an expanded algorithm for penile straightening in proximal hypospadias surgery to preserve the urethral plate for urethroplasty. We also compared ventral corporotomy with grafting to multiple superficial ventral corporotomies without grafting for straightening greater than 30-degree ventral curvature. MATERIALS AND METHODS The need for urethral plate transect...

although the most common hematological disturbance in thymoma is pure red cell aplasia, pancytopenia is a very rare paraneoplastic syndrome in this disorder. we only found one case in literature reviews. we report a 36 year old female with an anterior mediastinal mass and severe pancytopenia. with a mediastinotomy incision, biopsy of the tumor was obtained. the report of the pathologist was thy...

background: the normal prostate-specific antigen (psa) level in patients with urethral catheterization is a controversy. we designed this study to investigate the effect of nontraumatic urethral catheterization without urinary retention on serum psa. materials and methods: seventy patients scheduled for urethral catheterization before elective surgeries were randomly selected and included in th...