Urogenital Pain - Time to Accept a New Approach to Phenotyping and, as a Consequence, Management

European Urology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-36

  Baranowski, Andrew P ^a   Abrams, Paul ^b   Berger, Richard E ^c   Buffington, C A Tony ^d   de C Williams, Amanda C ^e   Hanno, Phil ^f   Loeser, John D ^c   Nickel, J Curtis ^g   Wesselmann, Ursula ^h  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTALGIA; EDITORIAL; GENITAL PAIN; HUMAN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; PAIN; PELVIS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 36448944669     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2007.10.010     Document Type: Editorial

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