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Transurethral Microwave Thermotherapy

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Current therapeutic options for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) include medical management, which has only a limited effect and is essentially palliative and reversible at the end of the treatment (Lepor 1989), and endoscopic surgery, which clearly has an important effect made permanent by the removal of prostatic tissue and the creation of a cavity within the prostate (Lepor and Rigaud 1990; Holtgrewe et al. 1989). In addition to these two treatment options, there is a possibility of using minimally invasive alternative therapy whose aim is essentially to induce irreversible tissue changes in order to obtain therapeutic effectiveness more optimal than that of medical treatment. Treatment outcome of this minimally invasive therapy should be as close as possible to that of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), the standard management of BPH, but at a lesser cost in terms of associated morbidity and clinical burden.

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  1. Department of Urology, Antiquaille Hospital, Claude Bernard University, 69321, Lyon, France

    Marian Devonec MD, PhD, Jean-Philippe Fendler MD, PhD, Patrice Joubert MD, PhD & Paul Perrin MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman)

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Center, University of Southern California, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, 90033, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Zbigniew Petrovich MD (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Department of Urology, St. Pieter’s Hospital, Catholic University of Leuven, Brusselsestraat 69, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Luc Baert MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman, Clinical Professor of Urology and Radiation Oncology) (Professor and Chairman, Clinical Professor of Urology and Radiation Oncology)

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    Luc Baert MD, PhD (Professor and Chairman, Clinical Professor of Urology and Radiation Oncology) (Professor and Chairman, Clinical Professor of Urology and Radiation Oncology)

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Devonec, M., Fendler, JP., Joubert, P., Perrin, P. (1994). Transurethral Microwave Thermotherapy. In: Petrovich, Z., Baert, L. (eds) Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78185-8_17

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