Temporary intraurethral prostatic bridge-catheter compared with neoadjuvant and adjuvant alpha-blockade to improve early results of high- energy transurethral microwave thermotherapy

Urology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-80

  Djavan, Bob ^a   Ghawidel, Keywan ^a   Basharkhah, Ali ^a   Hruby, Stephan ^a   Bursa, Bernd ^a   Marberger, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TAMSULOSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; URINE CATHETER; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE RETENTION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIATHERMY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFONAMIDES; URETHRA; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINATION DISORDERS; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033168832     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(99)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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