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Bladder Neck Resection or TURP?

Published on Thu Oct 16, 2014

Question: My doctor documented the following: “I had to push the scope through the bulbous urethral stricture. There was bleeding from the bladder neck after passage of the scope. I then dilated the urethra up to 30 French with Van Buren urethral sounds and placed the bipolar resectoscope sheath. I used the bipolar resectoscope and foroblique lens to resect this tissue [...]
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