LONG-TERM CLINICAL RELIABILITY OF TRANSURETHRAL AND OPEN PROSTATECTOMY FOR BENIGN PROSTATIC OBSTRUCTION - A TERM OF COMPARISON FOR NONSURGICAL PROCEDURES

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.