Management of benign prostatic hyperplasia by family physicians.

The past decade has profoundly changed how physicians manage patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The concepts of symptom indices, symptom complexes, flow rates, prostate-specific antigen (PSA), prostate size and new medical approaches supported by new clinical studies, have provided family practitioners as well as specialists with evidence-based management algorithms to treat BPH. Men with BPH most often visit a physician due to their partner's urging because of the many symptoms, with the most bothersome being nocturia.

Penile zipper injury.

Objective: To report 2 cases with pediatric penile trauma due to penile zipper injury.

Clinical Presentation And Intervention: Two boys presented to the emergency service because of penile zipper injury. The zipper was cut away and removed from the foreskin by cutting the median bar of the sliding piece of the zipper and the zipper teeth with a bone cutter.

Early catheter removal following transurethral prostatectomy: a study of 431 patients.

Objectives: To assess and review catheter removal on the first day after transurethral prostatectomy.

Subjects And Methods: The study included 431 consecutive patients who underwent transurethral prostatectomy between 2000 and 2003 at a Scarborough General Hospital, Toronto, Canada. The equipment used was a standard resectoscope with a regular loop.