Feedback microwave thermotherapy with the ProstaLund® compact device for obstructive benign prostatic hyperplasia: 12-Month response rates and complications

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 72-78

  Alivizatos, G ^a,b   Ferakis, N ^a   Mitropoulos, D ^a   Skolarikos, A ^a   Livadas, K ^a   Kastriotis, I ^a  

^a SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Dept of Urology ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; BLADDER STONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTOSCOPY; DYSURIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; NOCTURIA; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT INFECTION; SCORING SYSTEM; STONE FORMATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY URGENCY; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE VOLUME; URODYNAMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CYSTOSCOPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY RETENTION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 14944381214     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2005.19.72     Document Type: Article

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