The vicious cycling: Bicycling related urogenital disorders

European Urology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 277-287

  Leibovitch, Ilan ^a   Mor, Yoram ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bicycling; Hypesthesia; Impotence; Nerve compression syndromes

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

BICYCLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTORCHISM; CYCLING; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HEMATURIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PARESTHESIA; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENILE BLOOD FLOW; PENILE THROMBOSIS; PERINEUM INJURY; PREVALENCE; PRIAPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUDENDAL NERVE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN INDURATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPORT INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS TORSION; THROMBOSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 13844299343     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2004.10.024     Document Type: Review

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