Urethral reconstruction of strictures resulting from treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy and prostate cancer

Urologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 417-427

  Santucci, Richard A ^a   McAninch, Jack W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHRA SURGERY; URETHROPLASTY;

CATHETERIZATION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; URETHRAL STRICTURE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MALE;

EID: 0036586911     PISSN: 00940143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-0143(02)00031-9     Document Type: Review

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