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Origins, Distribution, and Risk of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy

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There is no currently available solution, theoretical or empirical, to satisfactorily explain differential population frequencies and individual risk levels of prostatic hypertrophy. Since this is the most prevalent of all pathologic entities in aging males, and virtually all males can expect to develop some hyperplastic foci during the final decades of life, whether or not they result in detectable hypertrophies, it may be moot that the condition is abnormal. That it occurs so universally and is readily treatable, however, does not detract from the observation that it has long been a condition that, with many other maturity-associated setbacks, can be expected to contain the life span of some men. What appears surprising is that mortality from this not-so-benign hypertrophy, despite the development of effective modalities for repair and cure, persists at remarkably high levels in some cultures.

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  1. Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 94143, USA

    Frank Hinman Jr. (Clinical Professor of Urology) (Clinical Professor of Urology)

  2. Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

    Saul Boyarsky M.D., J.D., F.A.C.S. (Professor of Genitourinary Surgery and Biomedical Engineering) (Professor of Genitourinary Surgery and Biomedical Engineering)

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Rotkin, I.D. (1983). Origins, Distribution, and Risk of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. In: Hinman, F., Boyarsky, S. (eds) Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5476-8_2

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