Health-related quality of life in Australian men remaining disease-free after radical prostatectomy

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 168, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 483-486

  Heathcote, Peter S ^a   Mactaggart, Peter N ^a   Boston, Robyn J ^a   James, Anthony N ^b   Thompson, Leslie C ^a   Nicol, David L ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PENIS ERECTION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0032543158     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1998.tb141408.x     Document Type: Article

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