TVP: A cheaper and effective alternative to TURP

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 292-296

  Nathan, M S ^a   Wickham, J E A ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costs; Morbidity; Success; Transurethral electrovaporization of the prostate; Transurethral resection of the prostate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLADDER IRRIGATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIATHERMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPTOM; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINE FLOW RATE;

EID: 0029790708     PISSN: 0961625X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13645709609153308     Document Type: Article

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