What is the normal prostate volume?

The prostate is a relatively important sexual organ for men. It is also very important for men's physical health. If the prostate is abnormal, it needs to be taken seriously and go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible. Prostate abnormalities will directly affect men's normal life. The size of the prostate varies from person to person. So, in general, what is the normal value of prostate volume?

Normal prostate volume

The prostate is shaped like an inverted chestnut. Its diameters in ultrasound examination are 4cm, 3cm, and 2cm in length, width, and thickness. The size of the prostate is generally determined by the patient's height and weight, and sometimes there are individual differences. Prostate enlargement usually occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, and manifests as difficulty or difficulty urinating in men. Some patients have no symptoms, so we should not only pay attention to its size, but also combine it with the patient's symptoms, which is more clinically meaningful.

We cannot judge it as a prostate disease just because we only focus on the size, which will add some unnecessary psychological worries and shadows to the patients. What kind of conditions are accompanied by the enlargement of the prostate volume? It reminds us to seek medical treatment in time. For example, for middle-aged and elderly men with difficulty urinating, we recommend going to the hospital for residual urine testing, which is to test the remaining urine in the bladder after urinating under normal physiological conditions. This can best reflect the impact of prostate enlargement on urination. At the same time as the enlargement, we must combine some indicators of the laboratory, such as whether it is necessary to rule out tumors, and combine indicators such as prostate-specific antigens to determine whether diagnosis and treatment are needed or the direction of diagnosis. This is more conducive to our correct judgment of the prostate.

If the size of a man's prostate is larger than the numerical range of 4×3×2 cm, he may have prostatitis, prostatic hyperplasia, prostatic cyst, prostate cancer and other diseases. However, the specific symptoms still need to be combined with clinical examinations. Only after the examination can the condition be confirmed. Men should not think that the discrepancy in the size of their prostate is a disease.

When the actual size of the prostate is smaller than the numerical range of 4×3×2 cm, it can be considered that the prostate has atrophy, the prostate has calcification, or the prostate size has changed due to prostatitis. In order to make men pay attention to their reproductive health, it is recommended that men go to the hospital for relevant physical examinations regularly to avoid the risk of prostatitis inflammation.