DOES GLAND HISTOPATHOLOGY CORRELATE WITH MODE OF PRESENTATION AND SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS IN BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA

The histopathology specimens from 256 consecutive prostatectomies were retrospectively analysed and classified into three categories namely BPH alone, BPH and an inflammatory lesion and adenocarcinoma. Mode of presentation (acute urine retention versus prostatism) as well as shor t term post-operative complications, namely, haemorrhage and genitouri nary infection were compared in the three histological categories to s tudy the impact of histology on clinical presentation and complication s. There were no significant differences between the three categories neither in presentation nor in complications. We conclude that prostat e gland histology neither correlates with the onset of acute urine ret ention nor with the surgical complications studied in this report.