Effect of different sized transurethral catheters on pressure-flow studies in women with lower urinary tract symptoms

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-25

  Scaldazza, Carlo Vecchioli ^a,b   Morosetti, Carolina ^a,b  

^a Jesi Hospital   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bladder; Catheterization; Flowmetry; Pressure flow; Urethra; Urodynamics; Uroflowmetry parameters, females

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETRUSOR MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION; PARAMETER; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RESIDUAL URINE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINE CATHETER; UROFLOWMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; URETHRA; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINATION DISORDERS; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 22544440861     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085922     Document Type: Article

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