Relationship Between Prostatic Urethral Angle and Urinary Flow Rate: Its Implication in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Pathogenesis

Urology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 858-862

  Cho, Kang Su ^a   Kim, Joo Han ^b   Kim, Dong Jun ^c   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)

^c Kwandong University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMICS; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATE URETHRA ANGLE; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URETHRA; URINE FLOW RATE;

HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; URETHRA; URINATION; URODYNAMICS;

EID: 42749083413     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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