Open-label, longitudinal study of tamsulosin for functional bladder outlet obstruction in women

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-315

  Costantini, Elisabetta ^a   Lazzeri, Massimo ^a   Bini, Vittorio ^b   Zucchi, Alessandro ^a   Fioretti, Fabrizio ^a   Frumenzio, Emanuela ^a   Porena, Massimo ^a  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blocker agents; Female bladder outlet obstruction; Tamsulosin

Indexed keywords

TAMSULOSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER NECK STENOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTITIS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESIDUAL URINE; SYMPTOM; URINARY URGENCY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFONAMIDES; URINARY BLADDER NECK OBSTRUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350323639     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000241674     Document Type: Article

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