Relation between urethral elasticity and bladder outlet obstruction and histologic composition of the prostate in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia

Urology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1149-1153

  Ichiyanagi, Osamu ^a   Sasagawa, Isoji ^a   Suzuki, Yasuhiro ^a   Ishigooka, Manabu ^a   Nakada, Teruhiro ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETHRA; URODYNAMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033152735     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(98)00665-7     Document Type: Article

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