BLADDER DYSFUNCTION FOLLOWING PROSTATIC ABSCESS

Urinary incontinence associated with a large bladder residual, cystitis, and consequent renal back pressure admits of a number of presumptive explanatory diagnoses. The case here submitted is of unusual interest and illustrates diagnostic errors one should obviously try to avoid. I shall give in outline the reports of two surgeons in whose care the patient had been prior to my own attendance, since they furnished invaluable data relative to my examination. The reports were given directly to me; the need for such cooperation, on the part of family physicians, and specialists as well, is too often apparent, but lack of it leads to prolonged discomfort and disadvantages for many patients. Obviously, in this paper I do not intend any disparagement of those who formerly attended the patient. One should bear in mind the facts relative to roentgen treatments given before the formation of the prostatic abscess; their relation to it