Int Neurourol J.  2024 Mar;28(1):67-69. 10.5213/inj.2346278.139.

Water Vapor Therapy and Zonal Anatomy of the Prostate

• Kim JH
• Kim HY
• Lee SJ
• Lee DS

• KMID: 2553894
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.5213/inj.2346278.139

Abstract

Water vapor therapy using Rezūm has been recently introduced as a minimally invasive surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia and is being increasingly performed. However, there is a lack of real-time images showing this practice and how convective water vapor acts in the prostate gland. In real-time ultrasonography, convective water vapor rapidly spreads throughout the ipsilateral transitional zone and is mostly limited within the transitional zone. For educational purposes, we would like to present a case to help readers understand water vapor therapy by visualizing convective water vapor using real-time ultrasound.

Keyword

Water vapor; Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Ultrasonography