Results from an international multicentre double-blind randomized controlled trial on the perioperative efficacy and safety of bipolar vs monopolar transurethral resection of the prostate

BJU International

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 240-248

  Mamoulakis, Charalampos ^a,b   Skolarikos, Andreas ^c   Schulze, Michael ^d   Scoffone, Cesare M ^e   Rassweiler, Jens J ^d   Alivizatos, Gerasimos ^c   Scarpa, Roberto M ^e   De La Rosette, Jean J M C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

benign prostatic hyperplasia; electrosurgery; randomized controlled trial; transurethral resection of prostate; treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; SODIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROSURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATURIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTVOID RESIDUAL URINE VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; URETER CATHETERIZATION; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE FLOW RATE;

AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84655169901     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10222.x     Document Type: Article

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