Benign prostatic hyperplasia refers to an anatomic diagnosis, yet in practice it is typically diagnosed clinically on the basis of lower urinary tract symptoms and prostatic enlargement detected on manual rectal examination or transrectal ultrasonography (1). Over the past decade, since benign prostatic hyperplasia (2) and prostate cancer (3) were reviewed in this Journal, there has been a prol...

In consequence of his dread of instruments I called in another medical man who gave him chloroform, and I then passed a full-sized prostatic catheter into the bladder without any difficulty, there being an enlarged prostate bur, uo stricture, and drew off between eight and nine pints of bloody urine. Some clots remained in the bladder, and, anticipating further hasmorrhage, I advised him to sta...

AIMS To investigate the effect of combination endocrine treatment (CET) or luteinising hormone releasing hormone agonist and flutamide on non-neoplastic prostate, prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, and prostatic adenocarcinoma. METHODS The morphology, including the mitotic activity, of 12 radical prostatectomies from patients with prostatic adenocarcinoma pretreated for three months with CE...

Histological evidence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) exceeded 50% in men over 50 years of age and rose to 75% as men entered the eighth decade. Therapeutic options for BPH generally fall into one of the three categories: watchful waiting, medical treatment and surgery. Excluding watchful waiting, the other forms of intervention directed at modifying the physiologic effects of BPH with or...

OBJECTIVE To determine if bladder outlet obstruction can be adequately relieved after laser prostatectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Since November 1992, a total of 105 patients underwent laser treatment of the prostate because of complaints related to benign prostatic enlargement (BPE). To date, urodynamic data from a study of pressure flow analysis are available for 79 patients both at baseline ...

Background Prostatic carcinoma carries a high morbidity and mortality if it is not diagnosed early. In resource limited countries, patients are at increased risk of being diagnosed late as they are operated for presumed benign prostatic hyperplasia. The information on the magnitude and risk factors of this problem in our setting could assist in the overall optimization of care of patients at ri...

To cite: Saha B, Sinha RK, Mukherjee S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014207816 DESCRIPTION A 35-year-old man presented with a 1-year history of increased urinary frequency, poor urinary flow, incomplete voiding sensation and dysuria. He was subjected to repeated urine culture and antibiotics, but his symptoms persisted. Digital rectal ex...