Efficacy of high-energy transurethral microwave thermotherapy in alleviating medically refractory urinary retention due to benign prostatic hyperplasia

Urology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 703-706

  Kellner, Daniel S ^a,c   Armenakas, Noel A ^a   Brodherson, Michael ^a   Heyman, Jacob ^b   Fracchia, John A ^a  

^a LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MICTURITION; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; URETHROSCOPY; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE RETENTION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; EPIDIDYMITIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION; URINARY RETENTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 7444226835     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2004.04.074     Document Type: Article

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