Alterations of intracorporeal structures in patients with erectile dysfunction

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-90

  Yaman, Önder ^a   Yilmaz, Erdal ^b   Bozlu, Murat ^c   Anafarta, Kadri ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Elastic fibres; Endothelium; Impotence; Smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; STYRENE MALEIC ANHYDRIDE COPOLYMER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL PENILE CURVATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELASTIC FIBER; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPOTENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT; PENILE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STAINING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOPSY; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ELASTIC TISSUE; ENDOTHELIUM; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PENILE DISEASES; PENIS; SMOKING; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0037971655     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071101     Document Type: Article

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