In general, men with severe symptoms or significantly enlarged prostates tend to require physical removal of prostate tissue through procedures performed in the operating room, where advanced laser procedures have emerged as alternatives to TURP. Laser surgery has undergone changes recently with the devel...
Older men commonly have anenlarged prostate, caused by a benign(noncancerous) condition called benign prostatic hyperplasia(BPH). Prostate glandcells simply keep growing in number in the prostate gland in BPH. BPH can cause urinary symptoms but is not a form of prostate cancer (see BPH). Epid...
be inferred that every mildly enlarged prostate gland is due to benign prostatic hyperplasia. Pathologic causes of prostate gland enlargement should always be considered if the prostate gland is visible in survey abdominal radiographs. View chapterExplore book Toxicologic pathology of the reproductive syste...