Rectourethral fistula after high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for prostate cancer and its surgical management

Urology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 999-1004

  Netsch, Christopher ^a   Bach, Thorsten ^a   Gross, Eberhard ^a   Gross, Andreas J ^a  

^a ASKLEPIOS HOSPITAL BARMBEK   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON POUCH; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; GRACILIS FLAP; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RARE DISEASE; RECTUM FISTULA; RECTUM RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; URETHRA FISTULA;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROCTOSCOPY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTAL FISTULA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY FISTULA;

EID: 79953849204     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.10.028     Document Type: Article

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