Clinical experience with the Mentor Alpha-1 inflatable penile prosthesis: Report on 65 patients

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-72

  Jensen, Jørgen Bjerggaard ^a   Larsen, Erik Højkjær ^b   Kirkeby, Hans Jørgen ^a   Jensen, Klaus Møller Ernst ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Inflatable penile prosthesis; Mentor Alpha 1

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE; YOHIMBINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATION DURATION; PELVIS INJURY; PELVIS SURGERY; PENIS PROSTHESIS; PEYRONIE DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIAPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE IMPLANTATION; PENILE PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 15044354410     PISSN: 00365599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365590410018747     Document Type: Article

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