Prospective Evaluation of the Learning Curve for Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate

Journal of Urology

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1468-1474

  Shah, Hemendra N ^a   Mahajan, Amol P ^a   Sodha, Hiren S ^a   Hegde, Sunil ^a   Mohile, Pradnya D ^a   Bansal, Manish B ^a  

^a R G Stone Urological Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

holmium; lasers; prostate; prostatectomy; prostatic hyperplasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LASER SURGERY; LEARNING; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATE WEIGHT; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETHRA STENOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOLMIUM; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY;

EID: 33947200205     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2006.11.091     Document Type: Article

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