Clinical Correlation of Prostatic Lithiasis with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes in Young Adults

European Urology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 333-338

  Geramoutsos, Ioannis ^a,c   Gyftopoulos, Kostis ^b   Perimenis, Petros ^b   Thanou, Vasiliki ^a   Liagka, Dimitra ^a   Siamblis, Dimitrios ^b   Barbalias, George ^b   Weidner, Wolfgang ^c  

^a Mesolongi General Hospital   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Chronic pelvic pain syndrome; Lithiasis; Prostatic calculi; Prostatitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE DISEASE; STONE FORMATION;

EID: 1242270499     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2003.09.020     Document Type: Article

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