[A second bladder-neck intervention following open transvesical prostatectomy (author's transl)].

Over a 10-year period 27 patients required a second transurethral revision operation after previous open transvesical prostatectomy. The so-called sphincter-sclerosis, residual and recidivous adenoma, and prostatic cancer were the causes of repeated bladder neck obstruction. Prostatic cancer after prostatectomy seems to be more benign clinically, more differentiated histologically and is diagnosed sooner because it presents with earlier symptoms than does primary prostatic cancer.