GreenLight HPS laser 120-W versus diode laser 200-W vaporization of the prostate: Comparative clinical experience

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 624-629

  Chiang, Po Hui ^a   Chen, Chien Hsu ^a   Kang, Chih Hsiung ^a   Chuang, Yao Chi ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Diode laser; Laser surgery; LBO laser; Prostate; Vaporization

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ANAL COMPLAINT; ANAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; DYSURIA; EDEMA; EPIDIDYMITIS; FOLLOW UP; GREENLIGHT HIGH PERFORMANCE SYSTEM LASER; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LASER PROSTATECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTVOID RESIDUAL URINE VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCROTUM DISORDER; SCROTUM EDEMA; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URETHRA STONE; URETHRA STRICTURE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE FLOW RATE;

AGED; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956011414     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20940     Document Type: Article

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