Contemporary surgical management of benign prostatic hyperplasia: What do recent trends imply for urology training?

Current Prostate Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-24

  Elliott, Sean P ^a   Sweet, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; LASER PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SKILL; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEACHING; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; TRANSURETHRAL NEEDLE ABLATION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREND STUDY;

EID: 60049098478     PISSN: 15441865     EISSN: 1544225X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11918-009-0004-z     Document Type: Review

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