Puncture of the seminal vesicles guided by a transrectal real-time linear scanner.

Abstract

An interventional technique using a transrectal real-time linear scanner has been applied to the transperineal puncture of the seminal vesicles in 143 patients. The composition of this group was as follows: seminal vesiculitis, 98; hemospermia, 20; and prostatic cancer, 25. The aspiration of fluid and the injection of antibiotics and/or steroid drugs into the vesicles were performed for the diagnosis and treatment of seminal vesiculitis and hemospermia. Clinical symptoms improved in 62% of the former and in 50% of the latter cases. Cancer cells were detected in aspirated vesicular fluid in 7 out of 17 cases with prostatic cancer. A remarkable improvement in the diagnosis of prostatic cancer invasion into the seminal vesicles can be expected from this new diagnostic procedure.

• Authors: M Abe, H Watanabe, M Kojima, M Saitoh, H Ohe
• Journal: Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU (J Clin Ultrasound) 1989 Mar-Apr Vol. 17 Issue 3 Pg. 173-8 ISSN: 0091-2751 [Print] United States
• PMID: 2494227 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Glucocorticoids

Topics

• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Anti-Bacterial Agents (therapeutic use)
• Equipment Design
• Glucocorticoids (therapeutic use)
• Humans
• Inflammation (diagnosis, drug therapy, pathology)
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Palpation
• Prostatic Neoplasms (diagnosis, pathology)
• Punctures (instrumentation)
• Semen (pathology)
• Seminal Vesicles (pathology)
• Ultrasonography (methods)