BPH Treatment: A Paradigm Shift

European Urology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 939-941

  Tubaro, Andrea ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODE; GREEN LIGHT LASER; HEALTH CARE COST; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; LASER; LASER SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LASER THERAPY; MALE; PROSTATISM; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE;

EID: 33747810467     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.03.055     Document Type: Editorial

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