LONG-TERM CLINICAL RELIABILITY OF TRANSURETHRAL AND OPEN PROSTATECTOMY FOR BENIGN PROSTATIC OBSTRUCTION - A TERM OF COMPARISON FOR NONSURGICAL PROCEDURES
F. Montorsi et al., LONG-TERM CLINICAL RELIABILITY OF TRANSURETHRAL AND OPEN PROSTATECTOMY FOR BENIGN PROSTATIC OBSTRUCTION - A TERM OF COMPARISON FOR NONSURGICAL PROCEDURES, European urology, 23(2), 1993, pp. 262-266
To elucidate the long-term reliability of prostatectomy, we evaluated
92 benign prostatic hyperplasia patients who had been submitted to eit
her transurethral or open surgery at the 5-year follow-up. Ninety-five
percent of the patients were still nonobstructed and subjectively sat
isfied of their urinary status. Postoperative mortality was presumably
not related to the previous operation. Until now, nonsurgical procedu
res did not guarantee the results achieved by surgical treatment and s
hould thus be reserved for patients at high operative risk or refusing
surgery.