Surgical management of benign prostatic obstruction.

  • 1 December 1988
    • journal article
    • clinical trial
    • Vol. 32, 12-5
Abstract
The incidence of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) and indications for prostatectomy are compared among earlier studies with the preliminary results of a recent national cooperative study of 3,885 patients undergoing transurethral prostatectomies at thirteen health centers in the United States. Clinical evidence indicates that TURP continues to be a successful procedure, with 97 percent of patients doing well in the first four months postoperatively in the most recent study. Although the incidence of TURP-related morbidity has been relatively consistent among three large-scale studies conducted during the past three decades, mortality has steadily declined from 2.5 percent to 0.2 percent.

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