Does the prostate really need androgens to grow? Transurethral resection of the prostate in a male-to-female transsexual 25 years after sex-changing operation

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 288-290

  Casella, R ^a,b   Bubendorf, L ^a   Schaefer, D J ^a   Bachmann, A ^a   Gasser, T C ^a   Sulser, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Chefarzt Urologische Klinik   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Male to female transsexual; Prostate; Transurethral resection of the prostate

Indexed keywords

ALFUZOSIN; ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; ESTROGEN THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICTURITION DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SYMPTOM; TRANSSEXUALISM; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ANDROGENS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 26444560465     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087811     Document Type: Article

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