A new technique of intraprostatic fiber placement to minimize thermal injury to prostatic urothelium during indigo interstitial laser thermal therapy

Urology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-110

  Issa, Muta M ^a,b   Townsend, Murphy ^a   Jiminez, V Keith ^a   Miller, L Elayne ^a   Anastasia, Katrina ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMAL INJURY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UROTHELIUM;

BURNS; CYSTOSCOPY; HEAT; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0031890572     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(97)00575-X     Document Type: Article

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