Ultrasound and doppler in benign hyperplasia and prostate cancer

Abstract

The prostate is usually based on problems that have great clinical relevance, the high frequency of their occurrence. Changes in prostate volume may be a consequence of benign pathologies (benign hyperplasia) and of malignancies (adenocarcinoma). The benign prostatic hyperplasia affects about 10% of men aged 30 years and is found in 90% of individuals over 90 years. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and appears in about 18% of them until the end of their lives.