Talk:Surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia

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Classifying procedures

The section § Other includes a number of non-laser, minimally invasive surgical treatments (MISTs). Their mention belongs in the subsection § Non-laser treatments. However, moving them there will show that the present division between laser and non-laser treatments is far from even; the use of lasers being just one modality for achieving tissue ablation. This is presently a fast-moving field, with variant new techniques being invented every few months on average.

Accordingly, I suggest a better classification of minimally invasive surgical treatments (MISTs) for BPH would be:

Laser ablation
1. VLAP
2. PVP
3. HoLAP
4. HoLEP
Non-laser ablation
1. TUMT
2. TUNA
3. Aquablation
4. WVTT
5. HIFU
Urolift

Thoughts? yoyo (talk) 15:25, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cochrane edits

To the invasive treatment section, I added information from a Cochrane review comparing monopolar and bipolar transurethral resection of the prostate.--Gsom12812 (talk) 15:21, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Improved the information on prostatic urethral lift by citing information from a Cochrane review --Gsom12812 (talk) 23:29, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What is sex

What is sex 41.114.194.213 (talk) 07:13, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]