1.Urological treatment for foreign bodies in the bladder and urethra.
Hirosi TAKIHARA ; Takuya UENO ; Keiji JOKO ; Kazutaka JOJIMA ; Jisaburo SAKATOKU ; Sugashi NAKAYAMA
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 1989;38(4):924-927
During the last 7 years in Ogori Daiichi General Hospital, three cases of foreign bodies in the bladder and urethra are treated, two cases with transurethral removal and a case with transvesical removal. All of three cases are males. Two cases of transurethral removal were performed at out-patient-department and a case of transvesical removal was hospitalized for 33 days after the operation under lumber anethesia.
A statistical investigation clearly showed that transurethral removal became more common than transvesical removal owing to the recent advances of endourological procedures.
2.Recent incidence of urinary tuberculosis: A review.
Hiroshi TAKIHARA ; Takuya UENO ; Kazutaka JOJIMA ; Keiji JOKO ; Sugashi NAKAYAMA ; Jisaburo SAKATOKU
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 1990;39(2):111-114
Between January 1986 and August 1989, four patients, whose urinary tuberculous cultures were positive, were treated in our hospital. They represented 0.66% of the total number of the new patiants who visited the outpatient department during this period. Also during the same period, two other patiants with unilateral old renal tuberculosis underwent nephrectomy.
Since the middle of this century, the development of chemotherapy has decreased the number of the patiants with urinary tuberculosis. However, there has been little decrease in recent several years, and our report supports this evidence. So, the possibility of urinary tuberculosis cannot be made light of in the urological examination, especially for the patiants with refractory urinary tract infection.