Treatment of prostatic calculi

Treatment of prostatic calculi

Prostatic calculi usually require no treatment. Conservative measures Associated chronic prostatic infection may be treated by means of ciprofloxacin or trimethoprim. Transurethral resection Transurethral resection will often release small calculi as the strips of prostatic tissue are excised. Others are passed through the urethra at a later date. Any associated benign prostatic enlargement is treated in the same sitting with TURP .