Cooled transurethral microwave thermotherapy for intractable chronic prostatitis - Results of a pilot study after 1 year

Urology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1149-1154

  Kastner, Christof ^a   Hochreiter, Werner ^b   Huidobro, Christian ^c   Cabezas, Juan ^c   Miller, Paul ^a  

^a EAST SURREY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPAREUNIA; EJACULATION DISORDER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSTATITIS;

EID: 10644277002     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.07.016     Document Type: Article

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