Electron Microscopic Study of the Penile Plaques and Adjacent Corpora Cavernosa in Peyronie's Disease

International Journal of Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 274-278

  Hirano, Daisaku ^a   Takimoto, Yukie ^a   Yamamoto, Tadao ^a   Hirakata, Hitoshi ^a   Kawata, Nozomu ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy department of urology; Impotence; Peyronie's disease

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PENIS; PEYRONIE DISEASE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; COLLAGEN; ENDOTHELIUM; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PENILE INDURATION; PENIS;

EID: 0031134693     PISSN: 09198172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2042.1997.tb00188.x     Document Type: Article

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