The overlooked cause of benign prostatic hyperplasia: prostatic urethral angulation

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 532-535

  Cho, Kang Su ^a   Kim, Joohan ^b   Choi, Young Deuk ^a   Kim, Jang Hwan ^a   Hong, Sung Joon ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MICTURITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; URETHRA; URINE FLOW RATE; URODYNAMICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; URETHRA; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 38749117172     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.07.012     Document Type: Article

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