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Ive heard of two operations called turp and tuip. whats the difference?
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Removal of tissue: Turp removes tissue, tuip only puts nick into enlarged prostate to allow better urinary flows.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Turp vs : Turp trans urethral resection of prostate tuip trans urethral incision of prostate turp you scrape tissue out for removal incision is just cutting a groove, no tissue removed.
Answered 10/26/2016
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