REVIVAL OF SUPRAPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY

Suprapubic Prostatectomy

The Revival of Suprapubic Lithotomy in England

ted to the favourable consideration of British Surgeons by its distinguished advocate, Sir Henry Thompson, as the best method of dealing with very large stones in adult males and youths, it was suddenly seized upon by a number of: in-experienced lithotomists, as the safest method in their hands, of dealing with small stones in male children, and the good old lateral lithotomy which had stood th...

Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy Performed after Previous Suprapubic Prostatectomy

Operative management of prostate cancer in a patient who has undergone previous open suprapubic simple prostatectomy poses a unique surgical challenge. Herein, we describe a case of intermediate risk prostate cancer in a man who had undergone simple prostatectomy ten years prior to presentation. The patient was found to have Gleason 7 prostate cancer on MRI fusion biopsy of the prostate for ele...

Pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumor of the prostate revealed on suprapubic prostatectomy

We report a rare case of inflammatory pseudotumor of the prostate revealed on suprapubic prostatectomy. A 70-year-old man presented with nocturia, urgency and difficulty in voiding. The histopathological examination of the suprapubic adenomectomy specimen reported fibromyxoid pseudosarcomatous tumor (inflammatory prostatic pseudotumor). It is important to take this benign lesion under considera...

Suprapubic Prostatectomy with Special Reference to Penicillin Treatment