Primary urethral reconstruction: The cost minimized approach to the bulbous urethral stricture

Journal of Urology

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1206-1210

  Rourke, Keith F ^a   Jordan, Gerald H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Eastern Virginia School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Cost benefit analysis; Urethra; Urethral stricture

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; EXCISION; FEVER; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LITHOTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROPLASTY; URETHROTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND;

EID: 15044350679     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000154971.05286.81     Document Type: Article

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