The band electrode: Ongoing experience with a novel turp loop to improve hemostasis in 265 patients

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 40-45

  Reich, Oliver ^a   Faul, Peter ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Memmingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Band electrode; Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Hemostasis; Transurethral resection of the prostate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVALUATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATISM; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINE LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE;

EID: 1642496831     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075271     Document Type: Article

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