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Reevaluating ‘Top-Down’ HoLEP: the case for anterior fibromuscular stroma as a surgical landmark

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  1. Department of Urology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Yu-Hsiang Lin & Horng-Heng Juang

  2. School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan

    Yu-Hsiang Lin

  3. Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

    Horng-Heng Juang

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Concept and design: YHL and HHJ; drafting of the manuscript: YHL.; critical revisions to manuscript: YHL and HHJ.

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Lin, YH., Juang, HH. Reevaluating ‘Top-Down’ HoLEP: the case for anterior fibromuscular stroma as a surgical landmark. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-023-00768-x

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