Genitourinary problems in bicyclists

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 333-339

  Asplund, Chad ^a   Barkdull, Thad ^b   Weiss, Barry D ^b  

^a EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLING; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; NEUROPATHY; PUDENDAL NERVE; REVIEW; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS TORSION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BICYCLING; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; SPORTS MEDICINE; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34948849877     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0072-1     Document Type: Review

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