Giant Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in a Pakistani Patient

Zafaruddin Khan; Muzamil Tahir; H Shahzad Ashraf; FazaluRehman Khan Niazi; Munazza Khan; Sadaf Mustafa; Naseruddin Höti

doi:10.1016/j.eucr.2013.11.006

Giant Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in a Pakistani Patient

Urol Case Rep. 2014 Jan 24;2(1):33-4. doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2013.11.006. eCollection 2014 Jan.

Authors

Zafaruddin Khan¹, Muzamil Tahir¹, H Shahzad Ashraf¹, FazaluRehman Khan Niazi¹, Munazza Khan¹, Sadaf Mustafa², Naseruddin Höti³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology and Transplantation, Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
² Department of Internal Medicine, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, MD, USA.
³ Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Abstract

"Giant hyperplasia" of the prostate is a rare pathology of the prostate gland. We report one such case, in which a successful retropubic prostatectomy was performed on an elderly male patient in Pakistan. The weight of the resected prostate was 700 g, which is the eighth largest prostate with benign prostatic hyperplasia reported.

Keywords: Giant BPH; Prostate; Prostatectomy.

Publication types

Case Reports