Comparison of spontaneous and experimentally induced canine prostatic hyperplasia.

Abstract

A B S T R A C T Spontaneous prostatic hyperplasia in the beagle appears to progress with age from a glandular to a cystic histological appearance. Prostatic hyperplasia can be induced in young beagles with intact testes by treatment for 4 mo with either dihydrotestosterone or 5a-androstane-3a,17,8-diol, alone, or with either of these steroids in combination with 17,3-estradiol.