Initial North American experience with the use of the Olympus Button Electrode for vaporization of bladder tumors

Canadian Journal of Urology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 6211-6216

  Canter, Daniel J ^a   Ogan, Kenneth ^a   Master, Viraj A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar electrocautery; Bladder cancer; Olympus Button Electrode; Transurethral resection of the bladder tumor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CYSTOSCOPY; ELECTROSURGERY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

CYSTOSCOPY; ELECTROSURGERY; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865808579     PISSN: 11959479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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