[Statistical study of outpatient urologic care].

Attendance generated in an urology outpatients office, reaching up to 6564 visits, was studied for a complete year. Considering only the initial visits handled during that period (1968), we evaluated the following parameters: age, sex, mode of remission, data presented, type of consultation, most common type of urological pathology. No particular period of life has come out as showing greater incidence of urological pathology. Males represented twice as many visits as women. 84.29% patients had been correctly referred to the office. Sixty percent of visits happened without appropriate clinical data to support the case. Emergencies represented 13.31%, but 90% of those actually lacked such condition. Renal-ureteral lithiasis (25.57%) was the most frequently present pathology in our office, followed by benign hypertrophy of the prostate (16.07%). Urinary lower tract infections (15.59%) and inflammatory and/or congenital prepuce pathologies (14.09%) were the second most frequent ones. In this paper, we emphasize the increasing prevalence of male-related sterility visits in the outpatients environment, as well as nephrological.