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Prostatic cyst: An unusual cause of hemospermia
F. Hernández-Galván
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Corresponding author at: Servicio de Urología del Hospital Universitario “Dr. José Eleuterio González” de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Av. Francisco I. Madero s/n, Col. Mitras Centro, Monterrey, NL CP 64460, Mexico. Tel.: +52 81 83331713.
, R. Jaime-Dávila, L.S. Gómez-Guerra, A. Gutiérrez-González, J.F. Lozano-Salinas, J.G. Arrambide-Gutiérrez
Urology Service at the “Dr. José Eleuterio González” University Hospital and School of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Mexico
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2</a>&#41;&#46; The resection resulted in drainage of a clear fluid&#46; Cold-cup biopsies taken from the cyst wall revealed non-urothelial epithelium with no preneoplastic changes&#46; A 16<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>F Foley catheter was placed overnight and the patient was discharged the next morning&#46; Follow-up at one&#44; three and six months demonstrated unobstructed urinary flow and normal ejaculation&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0025">Discussion</span><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Prostatic cysts include the utricle cyst&#44; the M&#252;llerian duct cyst&#44; the hemorrhagic prostatic cyst&#44; the hydatid cyst&#44; and cysts associated with prostatitis&#46; Our patient had a lateral cyst near the bladder neck in the right side and another small cyst in the left side&#46; He was concerned about his hemospermia&#44; because there was more than before in each event and this was the reason he came to the hospital&#46; The patient never referred to pelvic pain&#44; dysuria or perineal pain&#59; his only symptom was hemospermia&#46; He had no infertility problem &#40;he had 2 children&#44; aged 6 and 4&#41;&#46; After the surgery and to date&#44; he has never presented hemospermia again&#44; and his sperm count parameters are normal&#46; Some cysts are primarily prostatic glandular in origin and are acquired later in life&#46; Most lateral prostatic cysts are related to chronic prostatitis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2&#44;3</span></a> Symptomatic prostatic cysts are a cause of chronic pelvic pain&#44; upper or lower urinary tract infection &#40;UTI&#41;&#44; infertility&#44; hemospermia and&#44; rarely&#44; malignancy&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#8211;6</span></a> In our case the only symptom was hemospermia&#44; no infertility and no pelvic or perineal pain were present&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Some therapeutic options for managing prostatic cysts include transrectal aspiration with or without sclerotherapy&#44; transurethral marsupialization&#44; and open surgery&#46; Some authors report durable recurrence-free results in a series of patients with medial prostatic cysts treated with transurethral incision&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;7</span></a> We treated this patient by means of a transurethral marsupialization and fulguration of the vessels&#46; This lead to full recuperation&#44; and the patient was discharged the next day without pain and he had an uneventful recovery&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Valuable information was obtained by performing a cistourethroscopy&#44; demonstrating that the vessels ran over the cyst&#44; which is by itself an unusual finding&#46; 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