lower urinary tract symptoms
- lower urinary tract symptoms
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symptoms occuring during urine storage, voiding, or immediately after. These include
frequency,
urgency,
nocturia,
incontinence,
hesitation,
intermittency,
terminal dribble,
dysuria,
and postmicturition dribble. These symptoms used to be known as
prostatism. Sometimes they are due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (
see prostate gland), but they may be due to
detrusor overactivity, excessive drinking, diuresis due to poorly controlled diabetes, or a urethral stricture.
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