Female urethral stricture disease

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 419-423

  Keegan, Kirk A ^b   Nanigian, Dana K ^b   Stone, Anthony R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE REPAIR; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROPLASTY; URETHROTOMY;

DILATATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; SURGICAL FLAPS; URETHRA; URETHRAL STRICTURE; URINARY BLADDER; URODYNAMICS; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 51949116444     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-008-0071-7     Document Type: Article

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