Microwave thermotherapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia with the Dornier Urowave: Results of a randomized, double-blind, multicenter, sham- controlled trial

Urology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-28

  Roehrborn, Claus G ^a   Preminger, Glenn ^b   Newhall, Phil ^b   Denstedt, John ^c   Razvi, Hassan ^c   Chin, L Joseph ^c   Perlmutter, Aaron ^d   Barzell, Winston ^e   Whitmore, Willet ^e   Fritzsch, Ralph ^a   Sanders, Jeffrey ^a   Sech, Scott ^a   WoMacK, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e Urology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSURIA; HEMOSPERMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE RETENTION;

AGED; DIATHERMY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031952715     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(97)00571-2     Document Type: Article

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