Relation between Histological Types of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Clinical Symptoms

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a common condition among elder men، and generating considerable morbidity and health care costs. BPH may be due to stormal، glandular or a mixed type from. The symptoms can be divided into obstructive and non-obstructive such as frequency and urgency If the obstructive symptoms are sever surgery is indicated، this study is aimed to investigate the relation between histologic types and symptomes in a group of patients with BPH. three hundred and six patients with BPH were evaluated during 1. 5 year period. Histological type was determined. Any symptoms including dysuria، frequency، nocturia، urgency، etc، were registered. Frequency of symptoms and its number was compared between different histological groups. the mean age of studied patients was 69. 28±9. 15 years old (range: 46-91). The frequency of cases with stormal، glandular or a mixed type were 83% and 12. 09% and 4. 9%، respectively. The number of irrigative، obstructive and combined symptoms were not significantly different between different histologic types of BPH This study showed no significant relation between different histological types of BPH and their symptoms. Further studies with higher sample size are needed to affirm this conclusion.