For elderly, asymptomatic patients not undergoing curative local treatment, we were unable to show any major advantage of immediate compared with deferred hormonal treatment regarding quality of life or overall survival in our limited number of patients. Disabling complications were prevented in the deferred-treatment arm by careful follow-up; 42% of these patients never required any tumor-specific treatment.

Gemcitabine in the dose and schedule indicated above has a significant beneficial impact on pain in patients with hormone-refractory prostatic carcinoma despite its limited activity in terms of PSA response and considerable, especially hematological, toxicity.

We report a case of massive perirenal hemorrhage owing to an inferior seg-mental arterial rupture of an aneurysm, alongside a primarily inapparent polyarteritis nodosa associated with hepatitis B and C. We come to speak of the diagnostic procedure such as angiography, computerized tomography and MRI as well as the intervening measures like catheter embolization and surgical revision.

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