Safer transurethral resection of the prostate: Coagulating intermittent cutting reduces hemostatic complications

Journal of Urology

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 289-291

  Berger, Andreas P ^a   Wirtenberger, Walter ^a   Bektic, Jasmin ^a   Steiner, Hannes ^a   Spranger, Robert ^a   Bartsch, Georg ^a   Horninger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blood transfusion; Prostatic hyperplasia; Transurethral resection of prostate

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COAGULATING INTERMITTENT CUTTING DEVICE; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; SAFETY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SYNDROME; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION SYNDROME;

EID: 0346218173     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000098925.76817.3a     Document Type: Article

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