Transurethral Photoselective Vaporization versus Transvesical Open Enucleation for Prostatic Adenomas >80 ml: 12-mo Results of a Randomized Prospective Study

European Urology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 427-437

  Alivizatos, Gerasimos ^a   Skolarikos, Andreas ^a   Chalikopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Papachristou, Christos ^a   Sopilidis, Odysseas ^a   Dellis, Athanasios ^a   Kastriotis, Ioannis ^a   Deliveliotis, Charalambos ^a  

^a SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Laser prostatectomy; Open prostatectomy; Photoselective vaporization; Potassium titanyl phosphate laser

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSURETHRAL PHOTOSELECTIVE VAPORIZATION; TRANSVESICAL OPEN ENUCLEATION; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 45849117636     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.11.044     Document Type: Article

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