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Previous Volume 352:211-212 January 13, 2005 Number 2

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(Current Clinical Urology.) Edited by Kevin T. McVary. 269 pp., illustrated, with CD-ROM. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 2004. $99.50. ISBN 1-58829-155-3.

This book — whose authors include 10 Chicago urologists, 12 other U.S. urologists, and an eminent urologist from Ireland — reviews the anatomy, pathophysiology, and causes of benign prostatic hypertrophy, or hyperplasia (BPH), and discusses the assessment and treatment of the condition. However, an opportunity is missed in this book. One author states that "one of the most basic, yet most important, difficulties in the evaluation and management of men with BPH concerns definitions. In a strict sense, BPH is a histologic diagnosis." Both the International Consultations of the World Health Organization and the International Continence Society have recommended that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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