Transrectal high-intensity focused ultrasound devices: A critical appraisal of the available evidence

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-229

  Tsakiris, Peter ^a   Thüroff, Stefan ^b   De La Rosette, Jean ^a   Chaussy, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b City Hospital Munich Harlaching   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BALANOPOSTHITIS; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; EPIDIDYMITIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FISTULA; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LITHOTOMY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATITIS; RETROGRADE EJACULATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA STENOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTUM;

EID: 39749164416     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2007.9849     Document Type: Review

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