Open AccessProstate stents as ultima ratio in unfit patients
Author(s) -
Joachim Martin Reichle,
Süleyman Türk,
Frank Chinegwundoh,
Noor Buchholz
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
indian journal of urology/indian journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-3824
pISSN - 0970-1591
DOI - 10.4103/0970-1591.24662
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate , transurethral resection of the prostate , resection , surgery , cancer
Prostate stents have widely been abandoned. Indeed, to date there are many minimally invasive treatment options which can benefit even patients who are medically unfit to undergo transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). We present three cases that illustrate that, in spite of all those new options, prostate stents, in particular the thermo-expandable ones that can easily be removed if necessary, have some value as a last resort in selected cases