Are lower urinary tract symptoms associated with erectile dysfunction in aging males of Taiwan?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 251-254

  Liu, Chia Chu ^a   Huang, Shu Pin ^a   Li, Wei Ming ^a   Wang, Chii Jye ^a   Wu, Wen Jeng ^a   Chou, Yii Her ^a   Huang, Chun Hsiung ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aging male, erectile dysfunction; Erectile dysfunction; Lower urinary tract symptoms; Prostate

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL INDEX OF ERECTILE FUNCTION 5; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; TAIWAN; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 33750028444     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094818     Document Type: Article

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