Thulium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser for en bloc resection of bladder cancer: Clinical and histopathologic advantages

Urology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 851-855

  Muto, Giovanni ^a   Collura, Devis ^a   Giacobbe, Alessandro ^a   D'Urso, Leonardo ^a   Muto, Gian Luca ^b   Demarchi, Andrea ^a   Coverlizza, Sergio ^a   Castelli, Emanuele ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER BIOPSY; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER WALL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTOSCOPY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FOLEY BALLOON CATHETER; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; NON MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RESECTOSCOPE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND LOOK SURGERY; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; THULIUM YTTRIUM ALUMINIUM GARNET LASER; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF BLADDER TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; VERY ELDERLY; YAG LASER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALUMINUM; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; THULIUM; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; YTTRIUM;

EID: 84897409251     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2013.12.022     Document Type: Article

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