Long-Term Urinary, Sexual, and Rectal Morbidity in Patients Treated with Iodine-125 Prostate Brachytherapy Followed Up for a Minimum of 5 Years

Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 338-342

  Stone, Nelson N ^a   Stock, Richard G ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; IODINE 125; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SYMPTOM INDEX; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; ORGAN SIZE; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE VOLUME; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PENILE ERECTION; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 33847080897     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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