Benign prostatic hyperplasia - Does a correlation exist between prostatic morphology and irritative symptoms?

Atan A., Horn T., Hansen F., Jakobsen H., Hald T.

SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY, vol.30, no.4, pp.303-306, 1996 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 30 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 1996
  • Doi Number: 10.3109/00365599609182311
  • Journal Name: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Gender Studies Database
  • Page Numbers: pp.303-306
  • Gazi University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Fifty-two consecutive patients with prostatism who underwent a prostatectomy were investigated with regard to irritative symptom score, age, prostate volume, urine culture results, degree of detrusor instability, inflammation in the prostate, and stromal, glandular or mixed prostatic histopathology. We did not find any statistical correlations between irritative symptom score and the mentioned parameters. This indicates that irritative symptoms should rather be attributed to extraprostatic factors such as e.g. bladder reaction.