Experience With More Than 1,000 Holmium Laser Prostate Enucleations for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Journal of Urology

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1105-1109

  Krambeck, Amy E ^a   Handa, Shelly E ^a   Lingeman, James E ^a  

^a METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

laser therapy; prostate; prostatectomy; prostatic hyperplasia; transurethral resection of prostate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER OBSTRUCTION; BLADDER STONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE ENUCLEATION; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE SURGERY; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINE FLOW RATE; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE;

EID: 75849127023     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2009.11.034     Document Type: Article

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