Prostate brachytherapy under local anesthesia: Lessons from the first 600 patients

Brachytherapy

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 145-148

  Wallner, Kent ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LITHOTOMY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RANDOMIZATION; SEDATION; SIMULATOR; ULTRASOUND;

ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0242353178     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1538-4721(02)00053-3     Document Type: Article

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