Chronic pain after vasectomy: A diagnostic and treatment dilemma

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-169

  Tandon, Salil ^a   Sabanegh Jr , Edmund ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMECTOMY; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MUSCLE DENERVATION; ORCHIECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SCROTAL PAIN; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASECTOMY; VASOVASOSTOMY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SCROTUM; TESTICULAR DISEASES; VASECTOMY; VASOVASOSTOMY;

EID: 45449120111     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07602.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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