Advances in Laser Technology in Urology

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-198

  Lee, Jason ^a   Gianduzzo, Troy R J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Wesley Medical Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Lasers; Nephrectomy; Prostatectomy; Urolithiasis; Urology

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; FIBRIN GLUE; LANTHANIDE; LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM TRIBORATE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; OXIDIZED CELLULOSE; POTASSIUM DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE; THULIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BALLOON DILATATION; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; BLADDER OBSTRUCTION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUTERIZATION; DIATHERMY; DIODE LASER; HEMINEPHRECTOMY; HEMOSTASIS; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; KIDNEY TUMOR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LASER PROSTATECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; LITHIUM TRIBORATE LASER; LITHOTRIPSY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOMA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; PYELOPLASTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDUAL VOLUME; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE LASER; THERAPY EFFECT; THERMAL INJURY; THULIUM LASER; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETER STONE; URETER STRICTURE; URETEROPELVIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROTOMY; URINARY DIVERSION; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROLITHIASIS; UROLOGY; VAPORIZATION; YAG LASER;

HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LASER THERAPY; NEPHRECTOMY; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 65249175088     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2009.02.004     Document Type: Review

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