[Benign prostatic hypertrophy. Surgical treatment. Value of surgery by a high approach].

Transurethral resection of the prostate is not a new procedure for the treatment of adenoma of the prostate but is being increasingly used. This fact is incontrovertible and all urologists perform transurethral resection for small adenomas. For large adenomas we still believe surgical removal is the best method. The results of resections of the prostate reported in the literature are not good enough to cause us to change our mind (80% good results after one or several procedures with an 8% incontinence rate!). To allow a more accurate evaluation we compared our personal results with surgical removal to the results of resections performed in our unit and reported in the literature.