title: Transurethral hot water balloon thermoablation.
abstract: The inclusion of a determinate technique among the "minimally invasive treatments" of the symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia is a long and careful process. The technique has to be more patient-friendly than conventional techniques, but also needs to be time-tested against older methods. Most of these minimally invasive treatments are based upon distinct types of thermoablation; the method discussed here, hot water balloon thermoablation, is based on the heat conductive properties of the prostatic tissue.
authors.affiliation: Center for Minimally Invasive Urology (356), Department of Urology, University Medical Center St. Radboud, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. J.delarosette@URO.AZN.NL
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: de la Rosette
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Alivizatos
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Laguna
mesh_terms: D017115:Catheter Ablation; D002404:Catheterization; D006801:Humans; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced; D008297:Male; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014521:Urethra / Q000473:pathology*; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D014867:Water