Epidemiology and natural history of benign prostatic hyperplasia
Guess, H.A.
Urologic Clinics of North America 22(2): 247-261
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0094-0143 PMID: 7539173 Document Number: 443630
Clinical manifestations of BPH include the symptoms, signs, and sequelae of urinary obstruction caused by the abnormal growth of non-malignant nodules that arise in a small region around the proximal segment of the prostatic urethra. Although the pathologic diagnostic criteria are relatively specific, clinical diagnostic criteria are much less specific, and no single BPH case definition has gained wide acceptance for use in epidemiologic studies.