indications

Last reviewed 01/2018

Medical treatment may be indicated:

  • in patients with people with mild symptoms of bladder outlet obstruction
  • patients unfit for transurethral resection
  • young patients in whom the complications of surgery, especially retrograde ejaculation, are unacceptable

In March 2002 finasteride was released as an oral therapy for males with androgenetic alopecia (male-pattern baldness) (1).

  1. Dermatology in Practice (2002), 10 (4), 26-29.