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A mortality rate of 5.2% following prostatectomy in 192 cases in patients over eighty years of age is reported. The mortality rate was lower following transurethral operation.
I wish to thank Mr. T. J. D. Lane, Director, Urological Department, Meath Hospital, Dublin, for permission to produce these figures.
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Dermot O’plynn, J. Prostatectomy after eighty. Ir J Med Sci 38, 465–467 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02951124
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