Holmium laser core-through urethrotomy for traumatic obliterative strictures of urethra: Initial experience

Urology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 232-235

  Dogra, P N ^a   Ansari, M S ^a   Gupta, N P ^a   Tandon, S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FIBROSIS; FLOW RATE; FOLLOW UP; HOLMIUM LASER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; TREATMENT FAILURE; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROSCOPY; URETHROTOMY; URINE CATHETER; URINE EXTRAVASATION; VAPORIZATION;

EID: 4143113703     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.03.050     Document Type: Article

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