Laser treatment of benign prostate enlargement-which laser for which prostate

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 142-152

  Rieken, Malte ^a   Bachmann, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; WARFARIN;

BLADDER NECK; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETERIZATION; DEVICE SAFETY; DIODE LASER; FOLLOW UP; GREEN LIGHT LASER; HOLMIUM LASER; HOLMIUM LASER ENUCLEATION OF THE PROSTATE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LASER; LASER PROSTATECTOMY; LIGHT; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOMA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THULIUM LASER ENUCLEATION OF THE PROSTATE; THULIUM YTTRIUM ALUMINIUM GARNET LASER; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETHRA STRICTURE; UROLOGICAL LASER SYSTEM; VAPORIZATION;

HUMANS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84897416726     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2014.23     Document Type: Review

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