Bipolar vaporization of the prostate: Is it ready for the primetime?

Therapeutic Advances in Urology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 257-261

  Bucuras, Viorel ^a   Bardan, Razvan ^a  

^a VICTOR BABES UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

benign prostatic hyperplasia; bipolar vaporization; transurethral prostate resection

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; HEMOSTASIS; HOLMIUM LASER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; REVIEW; TRANSURETHRAL ELECTROVAPORIZATION; VISION;

EID: 82955223356     PISSN: 17562872     EISSN: 17562880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1756287211425683     Document Type: Article

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