A morphometric analysis of bulbar urethral strictures

BJU International

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 397-402

  Cavalcanti, Andre G ^a,b   Costa, Waldemar S ^a   Baskin, Laurence S ^c   McAninch, Jack A ^c   Sampaio, Francisco J B ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital Souza Aguiar   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen; Extracellular matrix; Morphometry; Urethral stricture; Vessels

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTIC FIBER; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; COLLAGEN; ELASTIC TISSUE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE;

EID: 34447127097     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.06904.x     Document Type: Article

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