Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate: Comparison of outcomes according to prostate size in 97 Japanese patients

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 192-196

  Seki, Narihito ^a   Tatsugami, Katsunori ^a   Naito, Seiji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; BLADDER INJURY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDUAL URINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROTOMY; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HOLMIUM; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947400253     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.0123     Document Type: Review

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