Prof. M.A. Vasiliev. On the effect of resection of the excretory duct on bladder sphincter tone. Russian Surgical Archive, 1903, Vol. 1

Beneficial influence is so-called. sexual operations in persons with hypertrophy of prostatae was explained by the advancing atrophy of the last days. But the rapid onset of the result, on the one hand, and the negative data of the microscopic examination of the prostate after the operation, on the other, showed that the atrophy of the prostate was not very good here. In addition to the explanation of this fact, they put a decrease in the congestion of the urinary tract, which was considered an ethological moment for hypertrophy of the prostatae. smyavinoschago duct) on the tone of the sphincteris vesicae, in order to find out in this way partly the clinical significance of these operations.