Some Observations on Transurethral Prostatic Resection

WHEN resident surgeons are taught the performance of transurethral prostatic resection at the University of Michigan Hospital and when matters pertaining to resection are discussed with visiting urologists, it has appeared desirable to emphasize certain details of technic that have been found necessary to the successful execution of operation. Many of these appear not to have been adequately elaborated on in the literature, and for that reason it seems appropriate to report some of the particulars that are considered to be fundamental.The earliest description of operative procedures, purposefully designed to relieve obstructive uropathy, was written by Ambroise Paré, who, . . .