Streptomyces-derived nano-doxorubicin: Clinical status and patents granted by Kaur Prabhjot, Bhandari Divya Dhawal, Chopra Hitesh

“…Doxorubicin (DOX) is a potent anti-cancer drug derived from Streptomyces, that is widely used for various cancers, including cancers of the ovary, urinary bladder, GI tract, breast, thyroid gland, lung, bone, kidney (nephroblastoma) and blood (leukaemia). …”
Get full text

Gross Hematuria and Bladder Tumor in a Patient with Advanced Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma by Takao Ando, Yuki Matsuo, Toshiyuki Ikeoka, Kojiro Oba, Yasuyoshi Miyata, Hideki Sakai, Kuniko Abe, Atsushi Kawakami

“…Therefore, we identified thyroid carcinoma metastasis to the urinary bladder as the cause of hematuria in our patient. …”
Get full text

A Case of GATA3 Positive Pleomorphic Liposarcoma, Epithelioid Variant: A Diagnostic Pitfall by Makoto Abe, Nobuo Hoshi, Sayuri Hoshi, Kaoru Hirabayashi, Kazutaka Kikuta, Toru Hirozane, Rumi Nakagawa, Tsukasa Mizuno, Hiroshi Nakamura, Koichi Inoue, Takehiko Yamaguchi

“…The combination of CAM 5.2 and GATA3 staining suggested the possibility of metastatic cancer, but systemic clinical examinations did not detect any presence of a primary tumor, including urinary bladder, breasts, and salivary glands. The pathological diagnosis of pleomorphic liposarcoma, epithelioid variant, was made because of the presence of malignant lipoblasts. …”
Get full text

A Case of Idiopathic Recurrent Spontaneous Bladder Rupture by Reid Bartholomew, Mentor Ahmeti

“…A female patient presented four years following spontaneous bladder rupture with a recurrent spontaneous bladder rupture. Summary. Urinary bladder rupture is a condition usually caused by trauma or surgical instrumentation. …”
Get full text

Peripheral Contributions to Visceral Hyperalgesia by GF Gebhart

“…Studies in nonhuman animals have revealed that hollow organs such as the esophagus, gall bladder, stomach, urinary bladder, colon and uterus are innervated by mechanically sensitive receptors with low or high thresholds for response. …”
Get full text

Subpubic Cartilaginous Pseudocyst: Orthopedic Feature with Urological Consequences by Fawzy Farag, Ingrid van der Geest, Christina Hulsbergen-van de Kaa, John Heesakkers

“…MRI showed almost the same findings in both cases: midline, rounded, and cystic mass ~3×3×4 cm, anterosuperior to the urethra, and posteroinferior to the pubic symphysis, with normal features of the urinary bladder. Open surgical excision of theses lesions was performed in both patients. …”
Get full text

Use of Flexible Cystoscopy to Insert a Foley Catheter over a Guide Wire in Spinal Cord Injury Patients: Special Precautions to be Observed by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul Soni, Gurpreet Singh, Peter Hughes, Tun Oo

“…Therefore, antibiotics should be given to patients who get haematuria or urethral bleeding following urethral catheterisation over a guide wire. (3) Some spinal cord injury patients may have a small capacity bladder; in these patients, the guide wire, which is introduced into the urinary bladder, may fold upon itself with the tip of guide wire entering the urethra. …”
Get full text

Clonally Related Plasmablastic Lymphoma Simultaneously Occurring with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma by Norisato Hashimoto, Tomoki Ueda, Shinichiro Hiraiwa, Takuma Tajiri, Naoya Nakamura, Kenji Yokoyama

“…Here, we report a case of composite lymphoma of PBL and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL); that is, PBL in the urinary bladder and DLBCL in the nasal cavity occurred simultaneously. …”
Get full text

The Therapeutic Effect of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Radiation-Induced Bladder Injury by Xuefeng Qiu, Shiwei Zhang, Xiaozhi Zhao, Kai Fu, Hongqian Guo

“…Twelve weeks after radiation, urinary bladder tissue was collected for histological assessment and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) after metabolic cage investigation. …”
Get full text

Diagnosis of Bladder Cancer with Urinary Cytology, Immunocytology and DNA-Image-Cytometry1 by Bernhard Planz, Christian Synek, Thomas Deix, Alfred Böcking, Michael Marberger

“…Histological findings revealed 31 patients with transitional cell carcinomas of different stages and grades of malignancy. 40 patients had various benign diseases of the urinary bladder. Cytology yielded a sensitivity of 68% and a specificity of 100%. …”
Get full text

African Swine Fever Outbreak at a Farm in Central Namibia by Alaster Samkange, Borden Mushonga, Douglas Mudimba, Bernard A. Chiwome, Mark Jago, Erick Kandiwa, Alec S. Bishi, Umberto Molini

“…Necropsy findings included large amounts of unclotted blood in the pleural and peritoneal cavities, diffuse carcass congestion, splenomegaly, consolidation of both lungs, hemorrhagic and frothy airways and trachea, hepatomegaly and congestion, congestion of the gastric mucosa, enlarged and congested kidneys, ecchymotic epicardial, and endocardial hemorrhages, and very enlarged and congested urinary bladder. All the remaining pigs were euthanized, burned, and buried under state veterinary supervision. …”
Get full text

Abnormal Migration of Distal End of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt: A Retrospective Case Series at Sohag University by Ahmed Kamal Abdelhameid, Khaled Nasser Fadle, Bahaa Ghareeb Hassanin

“…Results: We included twelve patients with median age 12.5 months and male to female ratio (3:1) manifested by ventriculoperitoneal shunt complication: extrusion through the anus ( 4 cases 33.3%), scrotum (two patients 16.7%) other sites( 6 patients 50%) like: coiling of the distal end around the flusher, migration to the urinary bladder or flanks, myelomeningocele wound, and an exploratory wound. …”
Get full text

Postoperative Complications Leading to Death after Coagulum Pyelolithotomy in a Tetraplegic Patient: Can We Prevent Prolonged Ileus, Recurrent Intestinal Obstruction due to Adhesio... by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul Soni, Gurpreet Singh, Peter Hughes

“…Suprapubic cystostomy predisposed to repeated occurrence of stones in urinary bladder and kidneys. Spinal cord physicians should try to establish intermittent catheterisation regime in tetraplegic patients.…”
Get full text

Correlation of Grade of Urothelial Cell Carcinomas and DNA Histogram Features Assessed by Flow Cytometry and Automated Image Cytometry by Marco G. W. Bol, Jan P. A. Baak, Bianca v. Diermen, E. A. M. Janssen, Susanne B. K. Buhr-Wildhagen, Kjell-Henning Kjellevold

“…Objective: To analyse how DNA ploidy and S-phase fraction (SPF) by flow cytometry (FCM) and an optimised fully automatic DNA image cytometer (ICM) correlate with grade in TaT1 urothelial cell carcinomas (UC) of the urinary bladder. Materials and methods: Two-hundred-and twenty-eight consensus cases were analysed. …”
Get full text

The Role of Virtual Cystoscopy, after Multidetector Computed Tomography Imaging Reconstruction without the Use of Contrast Medium, in the Diagnosis and Evaluations of Bladder Tumor... by Kyriaki Kalokairinou, Achilles Ploumidis, Theodoros Kalogeropoulos, Lampros Vlachos, Kyriakos Stringaris, Ageliki Tavernaraki, Anastasios Thanos, Xenofon Papacharalampous, Vasilios Koutoulidis, Julien Letendre, Olivier Traxer, Athanasios Gouliamos

“…MDCT scan was performed in supine and prone positions and three-dimensional reconstruction of the urinary bladder was performed. Results. The examination was well tolerated by all patients with no complications. …”
Get full text

IL1RN and KRT13 Expression in Bladder Cancer: Association with Pathologic Characteristics and Smoking Status by Thomas S. Worst, Verena Reiner, Ute Gabriel, Christel Weiß, Philipp Erben, Thomas Martini, Christian Bolenz

“…To validate microarray data on cytokeratin 13 (KRT13) and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1RN) expression in urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (UCB) and to correlate our findings with pathologic characteristics and tobacco smoking. …”
Get full text

Incidence of Second Primary Malignancies in Patients with Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: An Observational Retrospective Cohort Study in the United States by Catherine W. Saltus, Zdravko P. Vassilev, Jihong Zong, Brian Calingaert, Elizabeth B. Andrews, Montse Soriano-Gabarró, James A. Kaye

“…The most common SPM were lung/bronchus (n = 29, 16.9%), urinary bladder (n = 22, 12.8%), and colon/rectum (n = 21, 12.2%). …”
Get full text

High prevalence of p16 staining in malignant tumors. by Noémi De Wispelaere, Sebastian Dwertmann Rico, Marcus Bauer, Andreas M Luebke, Martina Kluth, Franziska Büscheck, Claudia Hube-Magg, Doris Höflmayer, Natalia Gorbokon, Sören Weidemann, Katharina Möller, Christoph Fraune, Christian Bernreuther, Ronald Simon, Christian Kähler, Anne Menz, Andrea Hinsch, Frank Jacobsen, Patrick Lebok, Till Clauditz, Guido Sauter, Ria Uhlig, Waldemar Wilczak, Stefan Steurer, Eike Burandt, Rainer Krech, David Dum, Till Krech, Andreas Marx, Sarah Minner

“…Comparison with clinico-pathological data in 128 vulvar, 149 endometrial, 295 serous ovarian, 396 pancreatic, 1365 colorectal, 284 gastric, and 1245 urinary bladder cancers, 910 breast carcinomas, 620 clear cell renal cell carcinomas, and 414 testicular germ cell tumors revealed only few statistically significant associations. …”
Get full text

Use of Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from Bone Marrow for the Treatment of Naturally Injured Spinal Cord in Dogs by Euler Moraes Penha, Cássio Santana Meira, Elisalva Teixeira Guimarães, Marcus Vinícius Pinheiro Mendonça, Faye Alice Gravely, Cláudia Maria Bahia Pinheiro, Taiana Maria Bahia Pinheiro, Stella Maria Barrouin-Melo, Ricardo Ribeiro-dos-Santos, Milena Botelho Pereira Soares

“…Conscious reflex recovery occurred simultaneously with moderate improvement in intestine and urinary bladder functions in two of the four dogs. By the 18th month of clinical monitoring, we observed a remarkable clinical amelioration accompanied by improved movement, in three of the four dogs. …”
Get full text

Ultrasound investigation at examination of gastro-intestinal tract at combined trauma by A. S. Yermolov, O. A. Alekseyechkina, Ye. S. Vladimirova, G. P. Titova, V. M. Abuchina

“…In 2 patients after operation for splenic rupture and in 2 patients with urinary bladder trauma dynamic smallintestinal ileus was diagnosed with subsequent resolution according to clinical and ultrasound data after conservative treatment. …”
Get full text