A Spanner™ in the works; the use of a new temporary urethral stent to relieve bladder outflow obstruction after prostate brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 211-218

  Henderson, Alastair ^a   Laing, Robert W ^a   Langley, Stephen E M ^a  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bladder outflow obstruction; Brachytherapy; Clean Intermittent Self Catheterization (CISC); Prostate cancer; Urethral stent; Urinary symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; IRIDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSURIA; HUMAN; MALE; MICTURITION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RESIDUAL URINE; STENT; URETHRA STENT; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINE FLOW RATE; BLADDER OBSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE TUMOR; TIME; URETHRA;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0142196604     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1538-4721(02)00100-9     Document Type: Article

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