Role of tunica albuginea in erection: Is it a dynamic or a static role?

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-86

  Shafik, Ahmed ^a,c   Shafik, A ^a   Shafik, I ^a   El Sibai, Olfat ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Corpora cavernosa spongiosa; Erectile phase; Flaccid phase; Glans penis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CAVERNOSUM; DOG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PENIS ERECTION; PENIS GLANS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUNICA ALBUGINEA;

ANIMALS; DOGS; MALE; PENILE ERECTION; PENIS;

EID: 31844447734     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: 15210375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01485010500316071     Document Type: Article

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