Update on minimally invasive therapy for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-338

  Kastner, Christof ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMITRIPTYLINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CELECOXIB; DICLOFENAC; GABAPENTIN; QUINOLONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOLED THERMOTHERAPY; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC CHAIR; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MASSAGE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROMODULATION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PROSTATECTOMY; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; TRANSURETHRAL NEEDLE ABLATION;

CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATITIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 48749118932     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-008-0057-5     Document Type: Article

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