Significant changes in volume of seminal vesicles as determined by transrectal sonography in relation to age and benign prostatic hyperplasia

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 193-204

  Hayakawa, Takahiro ^a   Naya, Yoshio ^a   Kojima, Munekado ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; AUA symptom index; Benign prostatic hyperplasia; Seminal vesicles; Transrectal sonography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RECTUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RECTUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMINAL VESICLES; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 0032198117     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.186.193     Document Type: Article

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