Abstract
From June 18, 1948 to June 1950 we did 140 retropubic prostatectomies on private patients. There were no hospital deaths in this series. We are, however, reporting on only the first 100 consecutive operations so that there will be a follow-up observation of at least five months for the last patient. During the period in which the 100 retropubic operations were carried out, we also did 42 transurethral resections (nine had carcinoma), two suprapubic prostatectomies (one had carcinoma) and 23 perineal prostatectomies (six had carcinoma). In this series there was one hospital death. It occurred after transurethral resection and was due to second degree burns sustained when the patient, a man of 80, inadvertently turned on the hot water faucet while his nurse left him to finish his sitz bath. ANALYSIS OF 100 CASES Age.— There were three patients in the fifth decade, 42, 48 and 49 years of age.
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