Radiation therapy for prostate cancer and erectile (dys)function: The role of imaging

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 673-678

  Incrocci, Luca ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOGRAPHY; BEAM THERAPY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EJACULATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANIC IMPOTENCE; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 27544450743     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860500326190     Document Type: Review

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