Palliative transurethral resection of the prostate: Functional outcome and impact on survival

BJU International

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-59

  Marszalek, Martin ^a   Ponholzer, Anton ^a   Rauchenwald, Michael ^a   Madersbacher, Stephan ^a  

^a Donauspital ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Obstruction; Prostate cancer; Transurethral resection

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; BLADDER STONE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REOPERATION; RESIDUAL URINE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845505112     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2006.06529.x     Document Type: Article

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