Experience with the spanner prostatic stent in patients unfit for surgery: An observational study

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1093-1096

  Grimsley, Samuel J S ^a   Khan, M H ^a   Lennox, Elspeth ^a   Paterson, Peter H ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MICTURITION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATIC STENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; URODYNAMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 35348994418     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2006.0254     Document Type: Article

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