Erectile dysfunction in multiple sclerosis associated neurological and neurophysiological deficits, and treatment of the condition

Brain

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 1303-1310

  Beits, C D ^a,b   Jones, S J ^a   Fowler, C G ^a,b   Fowler, Clare J ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impotence; Multiple sclerosis; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; PAPAVERINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTOMETRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD LESION;

ADULT; BLADDER DISEASES; BRAIN MAPPING; EJACULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAPAVERINE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 0028586156     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/117.6.1303     Document Type: Article

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