A prospective randomized study of combined visual laser ablation and transurethral resection of the prostate versus transurethral prostatectomy alone

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-30

  Planz, Bernhard ^a   Kalem, Tomislav ^b   Sprenger, Christian ^b   Deix, Thomas ^a   Djavan, Bob ^a   Hanke, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Transurethral prostatectomy; Visual laser assisted prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NECROSIS; NEODYMIUM LASER; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESIDUAL URINE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE FLOW RATE;

AGED; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINATION DISORDERS; URINE;

EID: 0038309006     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071089     Document Type: Article

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