Comparison of neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser treatment with cold knife endoscopic incision of urethral strictures in male patients

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 239-244

  Jabłonowski, Zbigniew ^a   Kȩdzierski, Robert ^a   Miȩkoȩ, Eugeniusz ^a   Sosnowski, Marek ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEAN AGES; ND : YAG LASERS; ND: YAG; THERAPEUTIC FAILURE; URETHRAL STRICTURE; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASER;

ALUMINUM; GARNETS; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; NEODYMIUM; PATIENT MONITORING; SILICATE MINERALS; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOLID STATE LASER; URETHRA; URETHRA STRICTURE; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77953946922     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2516     Document Type: Article

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