Extracorporeal shockwave therapy for Peyronie's disease: An alternative treatment?

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 361-366

  Poulakis, Vassilis ^a   Skriapas, Konstantinos ^a   de Vries, Rachelle ^a   Dillenburg, Wolfgang ^a   Ferakis, Nikolaos ^a   Witzsch, Ulrich ^a   Melekos, Michael ^b   Becht, Edward ^a  

^a Stiftung Hospital Zum Heiligen Geist   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Erectile dysfunction; Extracorporeal shockwave therapy; Penile curvature; Peyronie's disease

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBENZOATE POTASSIUM; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PENIS ERECTION; PEYRONIE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PENILE ERECTION; PENILE INDURATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646060360     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2006.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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