title: [Treatment of prostatic tumors with interstitial thermocoagulation with neodymium-YAG (a new treatment in minimally invasive surgery)].
abstract: Interstitial laser-assisted thermocoagulation (ILC) is a simple and minimally invasive procedure for destroying tumors of the prostate gland which preserves the prostatic urethra and bladder outlet, restricts bleeding, provides a short postoperative monitoring, and also destroys carcinomas of the inner parts of the gland. We present our experiences on 42 patients who have been treated until June, 1992. If long-term observations confirm our positive results in benign prostatic hyperplasia, then a minimally invasive procedure which could replace transurethral resection in a large number of cases will have been discovered. This technique might also be used for inner-gland neoplasias and palliatively in prostatic cancer.
authors.affiliation: Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Alemania.
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authors.lastname: Hofstetter
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authors.lastname: Alvarez Alarcón-Hofstetter
mesh_terms: D004564:Electrocoagulation; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*
vernacular_title: Tratamiento de los tumores de próstata con termocoagulación intersticial con láser de neodimio-YAG (un tratamiento nuevo dentro de la cirugía mínimamente invasiva).