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[Relationship between PTH and PSA values in patients with pathological finding of benign prostatic hyperplasia]
Salvatore Romeo1, Giancarlo Napoli, Guglielmo Melloni
1Cattedra di Urologia, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy. salvo.romeo@yahoo.it
Abstract:
The functional relationship between parathyroid glands and prostatic gland is commonly very well known. The aim of our study was to investigate the relationship between serum levels of PTH and serum levels of PSA in patients with pathological finding of BPH. According to 261 transrectal ultrasound-guided prostatic biopsies performed from March 2009 to March 2010, 75 patients, responding to our inclusion criteria, were selected. 26 patients (34.6%) ended the study. All patients with high serum levels of PSA (>4 ng/mL), with histological diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia, underwent the assay of serum levels of PTH. We observed high levels of PTH (> 66 pg/mL) in 9 patients (35.2%).
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