Enlarged Prostate

Enlarged Prostate Treated with Stilboestrol

Carcinoma of prostate in clinically benign enlarged gland.

BACKGROUND Carcinoma of the prostate is one of the common tumours of old age in men. This cross sectional study was conducted to detect carcinoma of prostate in clinically benign enlarged gland and to evaluate the efficacy of Digital rectal Examination in detection of prostatic cancer in patients presented at Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar from July 1998 to July 1999. METHODS Patients pre...

Clinical Note on Residual Urine in Cases of Enlarged Prostate

I SUPPOSE that all surgeons will admit that an enlarged prostate of itself causes no harm, and often gives rise to no symptoms. Trouble and danger commence with the residual urine, which, if it increase, gives rise to retention, catheterism, and other serious consequences. The symptoms that are generally attributed to the enlarged prostate, such as frequency of micturition and so-called inconti...

Transurethral incision of prostate (TUIP) for minimally enlarged prostates.

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of Transurethral Incision of Prostate (TUIP) with Transurethral Resection of Prostate (TURP), in terms of improvement in peak flow rate (Q-Max) and number of complications. STUDY DESIGN It was an interventional, quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY This study was conducted at the Armed Forces Institute of Urology (AFIU), Rawalpindi, from No...

Supra-Pubic Cystotomy in a Case of Enlarged Prostate

By BASHIRUDDIN AHMED, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Sadar Hospital, Comilla. An aged Brahmin, about 75 years of age, was brought to this hospital on the night of the 15th October, 1927, for treatment for retention of urine, due to an enlarged prostate. Retention had been complete for 72 hours, and an attempt made at Brahmanbaria hospital to pass a catheter had been unsuccessful. There was no history o...