title: [Investigating Demodex folliculorum in patients with urological cancer].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In this study, it was aimed to determine frequency of Demodex folliculorum infestation in patients with urological cancers.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study evaluated 49 patients with urological cancers; 31 sex-matched healthy individuals as a control group were included in the study between March 2011 and April 2012 at the Hospital of Mustafa Kemal University, School of Medicine, Urology Clinic. The demographic characteristics of the patients were recorded. Samples from the perineal region of the subjects were taken by standard method of superficial skin biopsy and evaluated by microscopy. Presence of five or more Demodex sp. in a cm < sup > 2 < /sup > was considered as positive.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean age was found to be 60.2±18.6 years. D. folliculorum was found to be positive in 11 (22.4%) of the patients with cancer and in 1 (3.2%) of the subjects in the control group. It was found that D. folliculorum frequency was significantly higher in the cancer group compared to the control group. No significant difference was found among the cancer groups in terms of D. folliculorum detection. In the cancer group, mean age was significantly higher in D. folliculorum positive patients than negative ones.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It should be kept in mind that D. folliculorum incidence may increase in immunosuppressive states, such as cancer.
authors: Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Üroloji Anabilim Dalı, Hatay, Turkey.
authors: Mehmet
authors: M
authors: Inci
authors: Ozlem Aycan
authors: OA
authors: Kaya
authors: Melek
authors: M
authors: Inci
authors: Erkan
authors: E
authors: Yula
authors: Hasan
authors: H
authors: Gökçe
authors: M Murat
authors: MM
authors: Rifaioğlu
authors: Onur
authors: O
authors: Demirtaş
authors: Erhan
authors: E
authors: Yengil
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001706:Biopsy; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008924:Mite Infestations / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008925:Mites / Q000145:classification / Q000254:growth & development*; D010502:Perineum / Q000469:parasitology; D012867:Skin / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D012876:Skin Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014571:Urologic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*