Treatment by prostatic injection of acute urinary retention due to prostatic hyperplasia.

seemed to show a greater response to glucose challenge than the other female groups. The numbers in the present group are too small for the significance of this observation to be assessed, and further study is required. It is possible that the diabetic with lens opacities may progress to a stage requiring cataract extraction more rapidly than a non-diabetic. This might explain the discrepancy between the lack of correlation in this survey and the reports of increased prevalence of diabetes in patients admitted for cataract extraction.