Flow rate versus bladder volume: An alternative way of presenting some features of the micturition of healthy males

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1977, Pages 401-412

  Rollema, H J ^a,b   Griffiths, D J ^a,b   van Duyl, W A ^a,b   van den Berg, J W ^a,b   de Haan, R ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Detrusor contraction velocity; Instantaneous bladder volume; Plateau flow rate; Uroflowmetrogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLADDER; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; METHODOLOGY; MICTURITION; NORMAL VALUE; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; URINE FLOW RATE; UROFLOWMETRY;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 0017612902     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000280157     Document Type: Article

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