Preservation of Lower Urinary Tract Function in Posterior Urethral Stenosis: Selection of Appropriate Patients for Urethral Stents

Journal of Urology

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2456-2461

  Eisenberg, Michael L ^a   Elliott, Sean P ^a   McAninch, Jack W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

prostate; prostatic neoplasms; stents; urethral stricture; urinary bladder neck obstruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER SPHINCTER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; URETHRA STENOSIS; URETHRA STENT; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRAL STRICTURE; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINATION;

EID: 35748977094     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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