Bipolar transurethral resection of prostate in saline: Preliminary report on clinical efficacy and safety at 1 year

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 244-246

  Ho, Henry ^a   Yip, Sidney K H ^a   Cheng, Christopher W S ^a   Foo, K T ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; SAFETY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY RETENTION;

EID: 33646581018     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.20.244     Document Type: Article

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