Absolute contraindications Severe diastolic hypertension Thrombophlebitis or thromboembolic disease Severe hepatic dysfunction Cerebrovascular disease Relative contraindications Heavy cigarette consumption Family history of breast cancer Hyperprolactinaemia Marked obesity (WHR 0.95) Table…
Fig. 3.1 The final result of a metoidioplasty. (a) The neourethra is advanced up to the tip of the clitoris’ glans. (b) The scrotum is created with the use of…
Fig. 8.1 Symptoms of decreasing T levels (Zitzmann et al. 2006) Table 8.1 Prevalence of hypogonadism in screening of American population Age <40 years 40–50 years 50–70 years >70 years…
Priapism subtype Cause Symptoms Blood gas Treatment Ischaemic (low flow) SCD Painful full erection longer than 4 h PO2 <30 mmHg Blood aspiration Malignancies PACO2 >60 mmHg ICI of sympathomimetic…
Lesions sporadically associated with SCC of the penis Cutaneous horn of the penis Bowenoid papulosis of the penis Balanitis xerotica obliterans (lichen sclerosus et atrophicus) Lesions at high risk of…
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015Vincenzo Mirone (ed.)Clinical Uro-Andrology10.1007/978-3-662-45018-5_15 15. Testicular Cancer Alessandro Palmieri1 , Paolo Verze1 and M. Franco1 (1) Department of Urology, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy Alessandro Palmieri Email: info@alessandropalmieri.it 15.1 Germ Cell…
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015Vincenzo Mirone (ed.)Clinical Uro-Andrology10.1007/978-3-662-45018-5_14 14. HPV Infection in Male Riccardo Bartoletti1 and Tommaso Cai2 (1) Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 4, Florence, Italy (2) Department of…
The prostatitis syndrome is one of the most common entities encountered in urological practice. Classification of the prostatitis syndrome is based on the clinical presentation of the patient, the presence…
Testicular insufficiency Congenital Testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS) Acquired (Viral) Orchitis/epididymo-orchitis Testicular torsion Cytotoxic therapy (chemotherapy) Radiation therapy Genetic abnormalities Cyrogenetic abnormalities, Klinefelter’s syndrome, Y-chromosomal deleties, CFTR gene mutaties Endocrine abnormalities:…
Isbarn H, Pinthus JH, Marks LS, Montorsi F, Morales A, Morgentaler A, Schulman C (2009) Testosterone and prostate cancer: revisiting old paradigms. Eur Urol 56:48–56CrossRefPubMed Isom-Batz G, Bianco FJ Jr,…
