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

✍ Scribed by Masahiro Abe; Hiroki Watanabe; Munekado Kojima; Masahito Saitoh; Hiroshi Ohe

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 578 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870170303

✦ Synopsis

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. Indexing Words: Seminal vesicles Transrectal real-time linear scanner Interventional ultrasound Seminal vesiculitis Hemospermia Prostatic cancer FIGURE 3. Transrectal sonograms of the seminal vesicles in horizontal section. The seminal vesicles, enlarged before treatment, improved remarkably after treatment.