Urodynamic study and potassium sensitivity test for women with frequency-urgency syndrome and interstitial cystitis

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-65

  Kuo, Hann Chorng ^a  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Frequency urgency syndrome; Interstitial cystitis; Potassium chloride test; Urodynamics

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER INSTABILITY; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY URGENCY SYNDROME; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUAL URINE; SYMPTOM; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY; URODYNAMICS;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; ADULT; CYSTITIS, INTERSTITIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, UROLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; URINATION DISORDERS; URODYNAMICS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0037971704     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071096     Document Type: Article

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