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Response to: Greenlight® users should move from photoselective vaporization to endoscopic enucleation in larger prostates

Benoit Peyronnet, Vincent Misrai, Tev Aho, Henry Woo, Thomas Herrmann, Fernando Gomez-Sancha

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  1. Department of Urology, University of Montreal Hospital Center (CHUM), University of Montréal, 235 Rene Levesque Est, Suite 301, Montreal, QC, H2X 1N8, Canada

    Malek Meskawi, Pierre Alain Hueber, Roger Valdivieso, Naeem Bhojani & Kevin C. Zorn

  2. Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian, New York City, USA

    Alexis E. Te & Bilal Chugthai

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Meskawi, M., Hueber, P.A., Valdivieso, R. et al. Response to: Greenlight® users should move from photoselective vaporization to endoscopic enucleation in larger prostates. World J Urol 36, 147–148 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-017-2101-x

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