The etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of priapism: Review of the American Foundation for Urologic Disease Consensus Panel report

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 492-498

  Sadeghi Nejad, Hossein ^b   Seftel, Allen D ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Corpus Cavernosa; Erectile Dysfunction; Penile Prosthesis; Priapism; Sickle Cell Anemia

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIAPISM; REVIEW;

PRIAPISM; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 1542745607     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-002-0103-7     Document Type: Article

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