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[Sclerotherapy of hydrocele and cord cyst with polidocanol. Efficiency study]
F J Merenciano Cortina1, W Rafie Mazketli, M Amat Cecilia
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital Marina Alta, Denia, Alicante.
Objectives:
Checking the efficiency (cost/benefit) of the sclerotherapy with polidocanol in our country for the treatment of hydrocele and epididymal cyst.
Patient And Methods:
We studies 86 patients with this diagnosis from may of 1995, until april of 2000. We have applied the costs for process according to the indicators of administration-cost our hospital in the year 1999.
Outputs:
79 patient completed the protocol. The overall cure rate was 83.87% with sclerotherapy; 42.3% with first one treatment. Only a 4.5% of the patients had significant pain and a 7.4% others complications.
Discussion:
There were necessaries 1.5 sclerotherapies of mean for curation, resulting this treatment 4.78 more cheaper than surgery.
Conclusion:
The sclerotherapy with polidocanol of the hydrocele or epididymal cyst are an effective treatment, sure, simple, reasonably comfortable and fundamentally, economical.
