Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus in pediatric and adult male patients with congenital and acquired phimosis

Medicina

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 460-466

  Jasaitiene, Daiva ^a   Valiukevičiene, Skaidra ^a   Vaitkiene, Daiva ^a   Jievaltas, Mindaugas ^a   Barauskas, Vidmantas ^a   Gudinavičiene, Inga ^a   Franke, Ingolf ^b   Gollnick, Harald ^b  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boys; Congenital and acquired phimosis; Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus; Males; Rate

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CIRCUMCISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHIMOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHIMOSIS; SKIN;

EID: 53049106355     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina44060060     Document Type: Article

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