Magnetic Resonance Urethrography in Comparison to Retrograde Urethrography in Diagnosis of Male Urethral Strictures: Is It Clinically Relevant?

European Urology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 587-594

  Osman, Yasser ^a   El Ghar, Mohamed Abou ^b   Mansour, Osama ^b   Refaie, Huda ^b   El Diasty, Tarek ^b  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

MRI; Urethral strictures; Urethrography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTUM FISTULA; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETHRA CANCER; URETHRA FISTULA; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROGRAPHY; URETHROPLASTY; URETHROSCOPY; URETHROTOMY; URINARY DIVERSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URETHRAL STRICTURE; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 33746879238     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.01.015     Document Type: Article

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