Clinical outcome at 3 months after transurethral vaporization of prostate for benign prostatic hyperplasia

Urology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 235-238

  Chen, Shiou Sheng ^b   Chiu, Allen W ^a   Lin, Alex T L ^b   Chen, Kuang Kuo ^b   Chang, Luke S ^b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROFLOWMETRY; VAPORIZATION;

EID: 0030762478     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(97)00214-8     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Mebust WK, Holtgrewe HL, Cockett AT, and Peters PC: Transurethral prostatectomy: immediate and post operative complications. A cooperative study of 13 participating institutions evaluating 3,885 patients. J Urol 141: 243-247, 1989.
2. Holtgrewe HL, Mebust WK, Dowd JB, Cockett AT, Peters PC, and Proctor C: Transurethral prostatectomy: practice aspects of the dominant operation in American urology. J Urol 141: 248-253, 1989.
3. Roos NP, Wennberg JE, Malenka DJ, Fisher ES, McPherson K, Anderson TF, Cohen MM, and Ramsey E: Mortality and reoperation after open and transurethral resection of the prostate for benign prostatic hyperplasia. N Engl J Med 320: 1120-1124, 1989.
4. Sirls LT, Ganabathi K, Zimmern PE, Roskamp DA, Wolde-Tsadek G, and Leach GE: Transurethral incision of the prostate: an objective and subjective evaluation of long-term efficacy. J Urol 150: 1615-1621, 1993.
5. Lepor H, Sypherd D, Machi G, and Derus J: Randomized double-blind study comparing the effectiveness of balloon dilation of the prostate and cystoscopy for the treatment of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia. J Urol 147: 639-644, 1992.
6. Malloy TR, Carpiniello VL, Wein AJ, Payne C, and Wuchinich D: Bladder outlet obstruction treated with ultrasonic aspiration: one year follow-up on 59 patients. Urology 37: 512-515, 1991.
7. Kaplan SA, Shabsigh R, Soldo KA, Blaivas JG, and Olsson CA: Transrectal hyperthermia in the management of men with prostatism: an algorithm for therapy. Br J Urol 72: 195-200, 1993.
8. Blute ML, Tomera KM, Hellerstein DK, McKiel CF Jr, Lynch JH, Regan JB, and Sankey NE: Transurethral microwave thermotherapy for management of benign prostatic hyperplasia: results from the United States Prostatron Cooperative Study. J Urol 150: 1591-1596, 1993.
9. Oesterling JE, Kaplan SA, Epstein HB, Defalco AJ, Reddy PK, and Chancellor MB: The North American experience with the UroLume endoprosthesis as a treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia: long-term results. The North American UroLume Study Group. Urology 44: 353-362, 1994.
10. Mclean AJ: The Bovie electrosurgical current generator: some underlying principles and results. Arch Surg 18: 1863-1867, 1929.
11. Hung CT, Lin ATL, Chen KK, and Chang LS: Correlation between subjective symptoms and objective pressure-flow study in patients with prostatism. J Urol ROC 5: 233-239, 1994.
12. Siroky MB, Olsson CA, and Krane RJ: The flow rate nomogram: I. Development. J Urol 122: 665-668, 1979.
13. Warwick RT, Whiteside CG, Arnold EP, et al: A urodynamic view of prostatic obstruction and the results of prostatectomy. Br J Urol 45: 631-645, 1973.
14. Kaplan SA, and Te AE: Transurethral electrovaporization of the prostate: a novel method for treating men with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Urology 45: 566-572, 1995.
15. McLoughlin JM, Gill KP, Abel PD, and Wiliams G: Symptoms versus flow rates versus urodynamics in the selection of patients for prostatectomy. Br J Urol 66: 303-305, 1990.
16. Andersen TJ, Nordling J, and Walter S: Prostatism. I. The correlation between symptoms, cystometric and urodynamic findings. ScandJ Urol Nephrol 13: 229-236, 1979.
17. Meyhoff HH, Gleason DM, and Bottaccini MR: The effect of transurethral resection on the urodynamics of prostatism. J Urol 142: 785-789, 1989.
18. Abrams PH, Farrar DJ, Turner-Warwick RT, Whiteside CG, and Feneley RCL: The results of prostatectomy: a symptomatic and urodynamic analysis of 152 patients. J Urol 121: 640-642, 1979.
19. Chiu AW, Chen MT, Chang LS, Huang JK, Chen KK, Lin ATL, Lee YH, et al: Prophylactic bladder neck incision in the treatment of small benign prostatic hyperplasia. Chin Med J [Taipei] 45: 22-25, 1990.
20. Robinson HP, and Greene LF: Postoperative contracture of the vesical neck. I. Review of cases and proposed theory of etiology. J Urol 87: 601-609, 1962.
21. Wettlaufer JN, and Kronmiller P: The management of postprostatectomy vesical neck contracture. J Urol 116: 482-483, 1976.
22. Edwards LE, Bucknall TE, Pittam MR, Richardson DR, and Stanck J: Transurethral resection of the prostate and bladder neck incision: a review of 700 cases. Br J Urol 57: 168-171, 1985.
23. Lu CC, Chen KK, Chen MT, Lin ATL, and Chang LS: The clinical presentation of patients with contracture of the bladder neck after transurethral resection of the psotate. J Urol ROC 5: 8-11, 1994.
24. Tscholl R, Largo M, Poppinghaus E, Recker F, and Subotic B: Incidence of erectile impotence secondary to transurethral resection of benign prostatic hyperplasia, assessed by preoperative and postoperative snap gauge tests. J Urol 153: 1491-1493, 1995.
25. Marshall FF: Textbook of Operative Urology. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 1996, p 13.