Cryosurgery for prostate cancer

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 397-407

  Fahmy, W E ^a   Bissada, N K ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Department of Urology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cryoablation; Cryosurgery; Cryotherapy; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ICE; LIQUID NITROGEN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CRYOSURGERY; ECHOGRAPHY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FREEZING; GAS; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MECHANICAL PROBE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THAWING; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 79961198392     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01485010390219755     Document Type: Review

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