Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate Combined with Mechanical Morcellation: Two Years of Experience with 196 Patients

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-112

  Vavassori, Ivano ^a   Hurle, Rodolfo ^a   Vismara, Alberto ^a   Manzetti, Alberto ^a   Valenti, Sergio ^a  

^a Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; BLADDER MUCOSA; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HOLMIUM LASER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; ITALY; LASER SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL MORCELLATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MICTURITION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE SURGERY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; RESIDUAL URINE; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SYMPTOM; URINE FLOW RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SODIUM; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 1542375048     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/089277904322836767     Document Type: Article

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