Correlación clínica-ecográfica en el diagnóstico de patologías prostáticas en pacientes mayores de 50 años en el Hospital General Guasmo Sur; mayo 2017 a diciembre 2017.

Abstract

Prostatic diseases including prostatitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer are a group of conditions very common in adults over 50 years of age in worldwide, becoming a public health problem due to their need to be diagnosed in time and with patients going to the clinic when the symptoms significantly affect the quality of life. (1,2). It is important to establish what have been th e clinical characteristics of the patient, the imaging and laboratory studies performed and the results obtained in them to have elements of judgment that allow better assessment and thus prevent the development of any disease malignant and act efficiently. In Ecuador, prostate cancer is responsible for 1.2% of all local deaths and although prostate cancer is still a serious health problem due to its high frequency among men over 60 years of age, given great achievements in relation to its therapeutic management and its diagnostic approach which makes it uncommon to find patients with advanced adenocarcinomas in the consultation, such as the study conducted in 2012 in Ambato on the utility of PSA as a diagnostic tool. (3. 4). In the case of clinical echographic correlation in the diagnosis of prostatic pathologies, no studies have been found on this topic.