Cryotherapy and high intensity focused ultrasound for prostate cancer

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7683, 2008, Pages 1364-1365

  Macbeth, Fergus ^a   Bromham, Nathan ^a   Kagan, Robert ^b  

^a National Collaborating Centre for Cancer   (United Kingdom)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOTHERAPY; EDITORIAL; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STRESS INCONTINENCE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; URETHRA DISEASE;

CRYOTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 57749206200     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a2540     Document Type: Editorial

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