5-alpha-reductase inhibitor therapy postpones urine retention and prostate surgery in patients with prostate enlargement and a maximum uroflow rate of less than 15 ml/sec

• Wenhsu Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wenhsu Lin, Shangsen Lee, Jengyuan Wu

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Nantou Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Nantou, Taiwan

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• Shangsen Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wenhsu Lin, Shangsen Lee, Jengyuan Wu

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan

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• Jengyuan Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wenhsu Lin, Shangsen Lee, Jengyuan Wu

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Department of Research, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yuhung Kuo,

  Affiliation Department of Research, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Tengfu Hsieh

  * E-mail: hdf95@yahoo.com.tw

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Department of Research, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Taichung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0535-7239

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