A case of giant prostatic hyperplasia

Wang, Luke
Davis, Paul
McMillan, Kevin

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Publication date

January 2016

DOI

10.1016/j.ajur.2015.10.004

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Editorial Office of Asian Journal of Urology. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.

ISSN

2214-3882

Abstract

AbstractBenign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is one of the most common conditions experienced by aging males and a frequent cause of bladder outlet obstruction and macroscopic haematuria. Giant prostatic hyperplasia (GPH) is an extremely rare form of prostatic hyperplasia. We present a case of a patient with GPH of 800 mL. To our knowledge, this is the fourth largest prostatic hyperplasia ever reported in the literature