Counselling the patient with prostate cancer about treatment-related erectile dysfunction

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 611-617

  Montorsi, Francesco ^a   Salonia, Andrea ^a   Zanoni, Matteo ^a   Colombo, Renzo ^a   Pompa, Paolo ^a   Rigatti, Patrizio ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN E1; SILDENAFIL;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DRUG MECHANISM; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE STIMULATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COUNSELING; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034763168     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042307-200111000-00009     Document Type: Review

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