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There is a very strong tendency — especially in connection with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) — to substitute operative procedures with nonoperative or minimally invasive techniques. Examples are balloon dilatation, intraprostatic devices, wall stents, transurethral incision (TUIP), and the use of transurethral lasers (TULIP). Lately, these therapeutic measures have fallen a little behind and are being partially overtaken by thermal treatment modalities of BPH. For the past 2 years this technique first described in 1985 by Yerushalmi et al. [27], has fascinated patients, media, and parts of the medical community. This led to publications praising local hyperthermia of BPH as an effective and side-effect-free alternative therapy and thus superior to the well-known operative techniques [3,4,18–20,23,25,27].
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Harzmann, R., Weckermann, D. (1992). Hyperthermia or Thermotherapy of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: What Is the Difference?. In: Jakse, G., Bouffioux, C., de Leval, J., Janknegt, R.A. (eds) Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77480-5_13
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