Efficacy and safety profile of a novel technique, ThuLEP (Thulium laser enucleation of the prostate) for the treatment of benign prostate hypertrophy. Our experience on 148 patients

BMC Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Iacono, Fabrizio ^a   Prezioso, Domenico ^a   Di Lauro, Giovanni ^b   Romeo, Giuseppe ^a   Ruffo, Antonio ^a   Illiano, Ester ^a   Amato, Bruno ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Department of Urology   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THULIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; SOLID STATE LASER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; THULIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869395922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-12-S1-S21     Document Type: Review

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