ABSTRACT
Although several different techniques of transurethral resection have been described, their aim is essentially the same, to remove all the ade-nomatous tissue from the inner zone, leaving the compressed outer zone intact: the so-called ‘surgical capsule’. The tissue which is removed during transurethral resection is therefore in theory identical with the tissue removed by an enucleative open operation1,2 (Fig. 6.1). The various techniques of transurethral resection differ only in the order in which the bulk of tissue is removed. Two plans are described here: neither is in the least bit original and no particular preference is claimed for either.
