Effects of tamsulosin on lower urinary tract symptoms due to double-j stent: A prospective study

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-69

  Wang, Chung Jing ^a   Huang, Shi Wei ^a   Chang, Chien Hsing ^a  

^a ST MARTIN DE PORRES HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Double J stent; Tamsulosin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BUPRENORPHINE; PIPEMIDIC ACID; PLACEBO; SILICONE; TAMSULOSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERNATIONAL PROSTATE SYMPTOM SCORE; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICTURITION; NOCTURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; URETEROSCOPY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; STENTS; SULFONAMIDES; URETER; URETERAL CALCULI; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 68549133417     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000224871     Document Type: Article

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