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A Point System for Selecting Operative Candidates

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Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy

Abstract

In patients without an absolute indication for surgery we have attempted to standardize the preoperative evaluation of their obstruction by a point system in which the various symptoms and objective findings are graded according to severity.

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  1. Paul O. Madsen
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  2. Peter Iversen
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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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Madsen, P.O., Iversen, P. (1983). A Point System for Selecting Operative Candidates. In: Hinman, F., Boyarsky, S. (eds) Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5476-8_79

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