The aging bladder - A significant but underestimated role in the development of lower urinary tract symptoms

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 37, Issue 8-9, 2002, Pages 991-999

  Nordling, Jorgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aging; Detrusor instability; Infravesical obstruction; Innervation; Metabolism; Underactive detrusor; Urinary bladder

Indexed keywords

AGING; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; DETRUSOR DYSSYNERGIA; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT SURVEY; URETHRA; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 0036696147     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00094-3     Document Type: Article

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