[Cystic lesions of the prostate--diagnosis, therapy and clinical significance].

The authors present an account of results of examinations in 162 patients with cancer of the prostate, benign hyperplasia of the prostate, inflammatory diseases of the prostate and patients with a normal finding on palpation of the prostate. The patients were subjected to clinical, laboratory, histopathological and transrectal ultrasonography of the prostate. In one patient a CT examination of the prostate was made. In the group were seven patients with cystic prostate lesions (4.3%). In the group of patients with inflammatory diseases of the prostate they observed cystic changes in five patients (14.2%). The most important group was formed by two patients with abscesses of the prostate and one patient with an ascended utriculus prostaticus. Transrectal ultrasonography of the prostate was the supreme method for the diagnosis of cystic prostate lesions.