Selecting patients with pretreatment postvoid residual urine volume less than 100 mL may favorably influence brachytherapy-related urinary morbidity

Urology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1266-1270

  Beekman, Megan ^b   Merrick, Gregory S ^a   Butler, Wayne M ^b   Wallner, Kent E ^b   Allen, Zachariah A ^b   Galbreath, Robert W ^b  

^a WHEELING HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICTURITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDUAL URINE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYMPTOM; URETHRA; URINE VOLUME;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; URINE; URODYNAMICS; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 29144527445     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.06.109     Document Type: Article

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