Lasers for the Treatment of Bladder Outlet Obstruction: Are They Challenging Conventional Treatment Modalities?

European Urology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 418-420

  de la Rosette, Jean ^a   Alivizatos, Gerasimos ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR; HOLMIUM; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOLMIUM LASER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 33746926033     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.04.013     Document Type: Editorial

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