Natural history of lower urinary tract symptoms in men - Result of a longitudinal community-based study in Japan

Urology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 956-960

  Masumori, Naoya ^a   Tsukamoto, Taiji ^b   Rhodes, Thomas ^b   Girman, Cynthia J ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETHRA DISEASE; URINE FLOW RATE;

EID: 0037963953     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(02)02594-3     Document Type: Article

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