Myron H. Nourse

Retrograde Arteriography in the Staging and Follow-Up of Bladder Tumors1

Recent literature shows a significant upsurge of interest in arteriographic demonstration of bladder tumors (4, 5, 9, 10). This method supplies the long needed adjuncts for the proper staging of these tumors and for serial follow-up examinations of patients receiving radiotherapy. Jewetts theory of a correlation between the depth of infiltration of bladder tumors and their curability is now a well accepted fact (6–8). Hence, preoperative staging has become the determining factor for the mode of treatment (8, 12, 13). Until recently, staging of tumors of the bladder has been based largely on palpation under anesthesia, cystoscopy, and selective biopsy through the resectoscope (6–8, 12, 13). Radiographic examination following perivesical air insufflation, plexus angiography, and double-contrast cystography have been of secondary importance and have failed to supply substantial additional information (1–3). Selective arteriography of the hypogastric arteries, however, readily demonstrates the lesion. A char...

DIVERTICULUM OF THE FEMALE URETHRA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DIVERTICULAR CARCINOMA

Diverticulum is being recognized more frequently as the urologist searches for the lesion. Carcinoma as a complication is quite rare.