Efficacy of transurethral electrovaporization of the prostate with respect to standard transurethral resection

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 591-594

  Küpeli, Bora ^a   Yalçinkaya, Fatih ^a   Topaloǧlu, Hikmet ^a   Karabacak, Osman ^a   Günlüsoy, Bülent ^a   Ünal, Sedat ^a  

^a Ankara State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FLOW RATE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE SURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSURETHRAL ELECTROVAPORIZATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0032434949     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.1998.12.591     Document Type: Article

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