Bottini's operation
Bottini's operation
An obsolete technique in which symptomatic prostatic hypertrophy was treated by "boring" through tissue with electrocautery, a procedure supplanted by transurethral resection of prostate (TURP); it was first described by Enrico Bottini (1837–1903), an Italian surgeon.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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