Risk factors for vesicourethral anastomotic stricture after radical prostatectomy

Urology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 96-100

  Borboroglu, Prodromos G ^a   Sands, John P ^a   Roberts, James L ^a   Amling, Christopher L ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CONTRACTION; BLADDER RECONSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROANGIOPATHY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; URETHRA STRICTURE;

HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATECTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; URETHRAL STRICTURE; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION; URINARY DIVERSION;

EID: 0034044013     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(00)00556-2     Document Type: Article

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