The application of regional hypothermia using transrectal cooling during radical prostatectomy: Mitigation of surgical inflammatory damage to preserve continence

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1553-1557

  Liss, Michael A ^a   Skarecky, Douglas ^a   Morales, Blanca ^a   Ahlering, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTINENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

CATHETERIZATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; RECTUM; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84871252108     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2012.0345     Document Type: Article

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