30-MINUTES-TUMT: Use of the visual analogue scale to investigate patients' pain perception, different cocktail options and tolerability during 30 minutes' treatment

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-136

  Dicuio, Mauro ^a,b   Knutson, Tomas ^a   Vesely, Stepan ^a   Damber, Jan Erik ^a   Dahlstrand, Christer ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative anesthetics; Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Transurethral microwave thermotherapy; TUMT 30

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATROPINE; DEXOFEN; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DICLOFENAC; HYDROMORPHONE; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; NORFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; TOLTERODINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER SPASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOCICEPTION; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSURETHRAL MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE;

EID: 8344238990     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079693     Document Type: Article

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