How Useful and Realistic is the Uro Trainer for Training Transurethral Prostate and Bladder Tumor Resection Procedures?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1297-1303

  Schout, Barbara M A ^a,b   Bemelmans, Bart L H ^b   Martens, Elisabeth J ^a,c   Scherpbier, Albert J J A ^d   Hendrikx, Ad J M ^a  

^a CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

computer simulation; education; transurethral resection of prostate; urology; validation studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CYSTECTOMY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; TRAINING; TRANSURETHRAL BLADDER TUMOR RESECTION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 59349093489     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.10.169     Document Type: Article

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