... Carcinoma Staging Prostate-specific antigen Pathology Prostatectomy European Urology EurUrol 1997;32(suppl 3):2-14 1617445 David G. Bostwick Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., USA Staging Prostate Cancer-1997: Current Methods and Limitations Key Words Prostate Prostatic neoplasms...

...J. Hugosson; P.A. Abrahamsson; G. Ahlgren; G. Aus; S. Lundberg; S. Schelin; M. Schain; K. Pedersen Objectives: To investigate the outcome of neo-adjuvant hormone treatment before radical prostatectomy regarding local tumour extension, peri-operative blood loss and operation time. Patients: Of 111...

... phosphatase prior to open prostatectomy for voiding symptoms. The incidence of carcinoma of the prostate was 5.6%. 4 patients had Al lesions and 5 had A2 lesions. Only one A2 lesion was malignant cytologically. The sensitivity was 56%, specificity 69%, positive predictive value 24% and negative predictive...

... prostatectomies performed on patients in Lyon in 1988 for benign prostatic hyperplasia. Data were obtained from all records of public and private hospitals. Of 408 procedures, 312 involved endourethral resection (transurethral resection) and 96 open surgery. The mean weight of resected tissue was 20.3 ±0.9 g...

..., MN. The first followed 330 men who had not been diagnosed with prostate or bladder cancer at the time of prostatectomy. All surgery subjects were area residents and between 46 and 95 years of age (mean age 70 years). Among the operated subjects, 14 (4.2%) had serious intraoperative complications, 32...

...Robert Cox; Peter H.L. Worth The results of inserting 55 Kaufman prostheses into 45 patients with post-prostatectomy incontinence have been reviewed. Twenty-seven patients (60%) were continent and 3 were greatly improved. Ten patients were dry after their first prosthesis, 11 required ‘topping up...

...E. De Backer; A. Lauwerijns; C. Willem Sexual behaviour after prostatectomy has been observed in 100 patients who have undergone a Millin prostatectomy with preventive haemostasis. The results have been compared with 100 patients subjected to other urological operations and 100 patients who have...

...C.C. Schulman; A.M. Sassine Hormonal deprivation before radical prostatectomy remains controversial. The main purpose is to achieve downstaging, downgrading, improvement of the surgical results and increased survival. Experience with the last 100 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy,in whom...

..., quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Leucoplakia Nephrectomy Prostatectomy Eur. Urol. 4: 259-262 (1978) 1603263...

... Quality of life Questionnaires Prostatectomy Abstract A questonnaire consisting of 36 questions based on a visual analogue scale for measuring the quality of life (QOL) of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patients is presented and assessed. The sensitivity of the questionnaire is dem­ onstrated by its...

...Georges Rossignol; Pierre Leandri; Jacob Ramon; Jean-Romain Gautier A total of 115 patients (29 with stage Al and 86 with stage A2 prostate cancer) underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy. Residual cancer was found in the radical prostatectomy specimens in 11 of the 29 stage Al patients (38...

...Georges Rossignol; Pierre Leandri; Jacob Ramon; Jean-Romain Gautier A total of 115 patients (29 with stage A(1) and 86 with stage A(2) prostate cancer) underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy. Residual cancer was found in the radical prostatectomy specimen in 11 of the 29 stage-A(1)patients (38...

...M. Fox; S. Courtney; P.A. Wilkinson Mortality and morbidity rates of prostatectomy have been progressively reduced over the past years, but with increasing ageing of the population, a limit is reached when medical complicating factors ensue, beyond which operative intervention carries...

...E. Proca Fabre’s prostatectomy technique was applied to 100 consecutive unselected patients with no mortality and minor complications. Three technical failures were recorded. No urethral catheter was used, the bladder being drained through a lateral hypogastric stabwound. The incidence of urinary...

...L. Boccon-Gibod; G. Benoit; A. Steg Bladder neck reconstruction using an anterior bladder flap was used in 10 patients with total diurnal urinary incontinence, persistant 1 year after suprapubic (n = 6) or transurethral (n = 4) prostatectomy. 8 patients achieved symptomatic improvement, 6 of them...

...Julius O. Esho; I.O. Ntia; M.P. Kuwong Synchronous suprapubic prostatectomy and inguinal herniorrhaphy were performed on 12 patients who presented with benign prostatic hypertrophy and concurrent inguinal hernia(s). The results of these were compared with those of 12 other (control) patients...

...Shalom Lidgi; Boaz Moskovitz; David Groshar; Oscar M. Embon; Dan Richter Levin; Alejandro Sazbon A review of preoperative and postoperative symptom scores and radionuclide uroflowmetry in patients undergoing prostatectomy for benign prostatic hyperplasia indicates that there may be certain findings...

... and obstructive voiding symptoms. Preoperative examinations included intravenous urography (IVU), transrectal sonography of the prostate (TRSP), cystometry, uroflowmetry, and urethral pressure profilometry(UPP). Retropubic prostatectomy was undertaken in 16 cases, transurethral resection of the prostate in 335...

...Francesco Montorsi; Giorgio Guazzoni; Franco Bergamaschi; Paolo Consonni; Vincenzo Matozzo; Luigi Barbieri; Patrizio Rigatti To elucidate the long-term reliability of prostatectomy, we evaluated 92 benign prostatic hyperplasia patients who had been submitted to either transurethral or open surgery...

.... This study was carried out to find any cause and effect relationship between benign prostatic hypertrophy and haemorrhoids. Sixty-two elderly patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy were screened for haemorrhoids before and after prostatectomy. Twenty-five patients had haemorrhoids before operation. In 20...