Management of Urethral Stent Failure for Recurrent Anterior Urethral Strictures

European Urology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 615-621

  Palminteri, Enzo ^a   Gacci, Mauro ^b   Berdondini, Elisa ^a   Poluzzi, Maurizio ^c   Franco, Giorgio ^d   Gentile, Vincenzo ^d  

^a Center for Urethral and Genitalia Reconstructive Surgery   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Urethra; Urethral stent; Urethral stricture; Urethroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CYSTOSTOMY; DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMAN; MALE; MICTURITION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESTENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETEROSTOMY; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHRAL STENT; URETHROTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; CYSTOSTOMY; DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETHRAL STRICTURE; URINARY DIVERSION; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77249113162     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.11.038     Document Type: Article

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