Relationship among symptom score, prostate volume, and urinary flow rates in 543 patients with and without benign prostatic hyperplasia

Prostate

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-128

  Sciarra, Alessandro ^a   D'Eramo, Giuseppe ^a   Casale, Paolo ^a   Loreto, Andrea ^a   Buscarini, Maurizio ^a   Di Nicola, Stefano ^b   Seccareccia, Fulvia ^a   Di Silverio, Franco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Prostate volume; Symptom score; Urinary flow rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINE FLOW RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URINARY TRACT; URINATION;

EID: 0031934564     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(19980201)34:2<121::AID-PROS6>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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