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PRIMARY CLOSURE IN PROSTATECTOMY
Author(s) -
Brown R. K. Lee
Publication year - 1933
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1933.tb02581.x
Subject(s) - medicine , prostatectomy , closure (psychology) , ideal (ethics) , private practice , open prostatectomy , general surgery , urology , family medicine , law , prostate , cancer , political science
S ummary The objects of this article are t o set forth the observations made during the last five years with primary closure in prostatectomy. This technique has been much advocated recently, and to those who have not had much experience with it, it would certainly appear ideal. Like many other surgical procedures, however, i t is at times easier to describe than to perform. The disparity between the results obtained in public and in private hospital practice is undoubtedly due in part to the average better condition of the private patients and the better balanced diet which they receive. The adequate supply of vitamins is very necessary to aid in combating infective processes, as the patient's resistance is undoubtedly materially raised by this means. Further, it is not possible for the patients to receive the individual attention in public hospitals that is possible in private. In any case, there is a marked difference in the results obtained, although that applies to any form of prostatectomy.