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Guglielmo Melloni
Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma to Submandibular Gland: A Rare Occurrence
Approximately 20-30% of patients affected by renal cell carcinoma (RCC) present with metastatic disease, and 20% to 40% undergoing nephrectomy for clinically localized disease will develop metastases. A 53 years old female patient developed a left submandibular swelling. Four years before she experienced a left radical nephrectomy for a clear cell tumor and two years later right kidney was removed for a cancer having the same histologic subtype. In that circumstance duodenal pancreasectomy was required for infiltration of pancreatic gland. A sialoadenectomy has been performed and pathology demonstrated an intraglandular neoplasm with characteristics of a clear renal cell carcinoma. Although…
Relationship between PTH and PSA Values in Patients with Pathological Finding of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
The functional relationship between parathyroid glands and prostatic gland is commonly very well known. The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between serum levels of PTH and serum levels of PSA in patients with pathological finding of BPH. According to 261 transrectal ultrasound-guided prostatic biopsies performed from March 2009 to March 2010, 75 patients, responding to our inclusion criteria, were selected. 26 patients (34.6%) ended the study. All patients with high serum levels of PSA (>4 ng/mL), with histological diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia, underwent the assay of serum levels of PTH. We observed high levels of PTH (> 66 pg/mL) in 9 patients (35.2…
Lower urinary tract symptoms in male-to-female transsexuals: Short terms results and proposal of a new questionnaire
Presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the SICPRE, September 17–19, 2015, Milan, Italy. SICPRE: La SICPRE, Societa Italiana di Chirurgia Plastica Ricostruttiva ed Estetica, national meeting, in Milano, Italy on September 17–19, 2015. Disclosure: The authors have no financial interest to declare in relation to the content of this article. The Article Processing Charge was supported by a grant of family Dioguardi, in memory of Professor Domenico Dioguardi, MD.