Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal (May 2014)

Giant Prostatic Hyperplasia; Fourth largest prostate reported in medical literature

  • Joseph Maliakal,
  • Emad E. Mousa,
  • Varna Menon

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 2
pp. 239 – 242

Abstract

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A giant prostatic hyperplasia (GPH) weighing more than 700 g is a rare entity. It is believed that only eight such cases have been previously reported in the medical literature. This case report concerns a patient with a GPH weighing 740 g which was successfully removed by suprapubic prostatectomy. To our knowledge, this is the fourth largest benign prostatic enlargement ever reported in the literature.

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