Photoselective vaporization of the prostate (GreenLight PV): Lessons learnt after 3500 procedures

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 316-322

  Gomez Sancha F ^a   Bachmann, A ^b   Choi, B B ^c   Tabatabaei, S ^d   Muir, G H ^e  

^a Institute of Advanced Urological Surgery   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BLEEDING; CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LASER; LASER SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PHOTOSELECTIVE VAPORIZATION; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POTASSIUM TITANYLPHOSPHATE LASER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINE RETENTION;

ANESTHESIA; CYSTOSCOPY; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UROLOGY;

EID: 36949033414     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: 14765608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500989     Document Type: Review

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