Surgical Re-intervention Rates After Invasive Treatment for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms due to Benign Prostatic Syndrome: A Comparative Study of More than 43,000 Patients with Long-Term Follow-Up.

No large-scale comparison of the four most established surgical approaches for LUTS due to benign prostate obstruction in terms of long-term efficacy is available. We compared photoselective vaporisation, laser enucleation and open simple prostatectomy to transurethral resection with regard to 5-year surgical re-intervention rates.