Seasonal changes in symptom score and uroflowmetry in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 521-526

  Watanabe, Tetsuya ^a   Maruyama, Satoshi ^a   Maruyama, Yukitaka ^a   Kageyama, Shinji ^b   Shinbo, Hitoshi ^b   Otsuka, Atsushi ^b   Ozono, Seiichiro ^b  

^a Maruyama Hospital   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

International Prostate Symptom Score; Lower urinary tract symptoms; Maximum flow rate; Quality of life; Seasonal change; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MALE; NOCTURIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY; UROFLOWMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLD; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPERATURE; URINARY TRACT; URINATION; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 36749042128     PISSN: 00365599     EISSN: 16512065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365590701485921     Document Type: Article

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