Histological changes in the prostate of geriatric age group and associated clinical complaints.

DR.RAJINDER KUMAR JANGRAL; DR. MUBEEN RASHID; DR. MANMEET KOUR; DR NALINI SEROO

Volume : VI, Issue : V, May - 2017

Histological changes in the prostate of geriatric age group and associated clinical complaints.

Dr. Rajinder Kumar Jangral, Dr. Mubeen Rashid, Dr. Manmeet Kour, Dr Nalini Seroo

Abstract :

Advancing age is associated with increasing disability and functional impairments which may be contributed by functional decline in cardio- vascular, pulmonary, musculo-skeletal, other systems and organs of human body. Prostatism is a common malady in the geriatric age group. Benign hyperplasia and carcinoma of the prostate are increasingly frequent with advancing age and are uncommon before the age of 40. The only clearly defined risk factors for benign hyperplasia of prostate are age and the presence of circulating androgens