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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.
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de la Rosette, J.J.M.C.H., Alivizatos, G. & Pilar Laguna, M. Transurethral hot water balloon thermoablation. Curr Urol Rep 2, 302–305 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11934-001-0068-y
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