Urologic Disease in the Aged

Abstract

Diagnosis of prostatism becomes more difficult as a man grows older. Treatment also must be tempered to his age and, in the truly geriatric patient, may be only palliative. Postoperative complications often occur. Obstructive lesions do not trouble elderly women as often as men, but incontinence may be a problem, and meatal stenosis may cause urgency, frequency and dysuria.