TECHNIC AND RESULTS IN PERINEAL PROSTATECTOMY

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Whether perfection is attainable in any field of human endeavor is perhaps debatable. There is no question, however, that the foregoing dictum is peculiarly appropriate as applied to surgery. Were proof of surgical imperfection necessary, the following text would suffice—as would any set of surgical statistics, honestly compiled. The elusiveness of perfection, however, is no contraindication to a persistent quest for near perfection or to an attempt to approach the ultimate goal, which, in any surgical field, is the attainment of excellence and permanence of functional results, with minimum hazard. It is my purpose to refer briefly to certain factors tending to improve the technic of perineal prostatectomy and to present a tabulation of late functional results, based on an analysis of questionnaire replies received from 100 consecutive patients. TECHNIC In that Young's1classic description of the fundamental principles of the technic of perineal prostatectomy is readily available and is not to be duplicated (much less to be improved on), a detailed discussion

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