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TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION FOR VESICAL DYSFUNCTION IN CASES OF TABES DORSALIS

1948; American Medical Association; Volume: 136; Issue: 17 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/jama.1948.02890340019006

2376-8118

John L. Emmett,

Genital Health and Disease

In 1941, we reported theresults of a study of vesical dysfunction in cases of tabes dorsalis and analyzed the results of transurethral resection in 35 of the cases. 1 In these cases, the results of transurethral resection were very good. We recently have made a follow-up study of these 35 cases and of 44 additional cases of tabes dorsalis in which transurethral resection has been performed since Dec. 31, 1940. These two groups of cases form the basis of the present report. In making such a study, it must be emphasized that it is impossible in every case to distinguish accurately vesical dysfunction caused by the tabetic state alone from that which results from hypertrophy of the prostate gland or other obstruction of the vesical neck in a case in which tabes dorsalis is only a coincidental finding and of no urologic importance. It is true that the extremes of