Transurethral coagulation for radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis using greenlight™ potassium-titanyl-phosphate laser

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 78-81

  Zhu, Jin ^a   Xue, Boxin ^a   Shan, Yuxi ^a   Yang, Dongrong ^a   Zang, Yachen ^a  

^a THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; INITIAL TREATMENT; KTP LASER; LASER TREATMENT; POWER SETTINGS; RADIATION-INDUCED; TRANSURETHRAL;

COAGULATION; POTASSIUM;

LASERS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER TUMOR; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; SOLID STATE LASER; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VERY ELDERLY; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; THERAPEUTIC USE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84873387373     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2012.3396     Document Type: Article

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