5-Year outcome of a prospective randomized trial to compare transurethral electrovaporization of the prostate and standard transurethral resection

Urology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1166-1171

  Hammadeh, Mohamed Y ^a,b   Madaan, Sanjeev ^a   Hines, John ^a   Philp, Timothy ^a  

^a WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; BLADDER OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; RESIDUAL URINE; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; TIME; TRANSURETHRAL ELECTROVAPORIZATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINE FLOW RATE;

EID: 0037602172     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(03)00109-2     Document Type: Article

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