The morbidity of urethral stricture disease among male Medicare beneficiaries

BMC Urology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Anger, Jennifer T ^a   Santucci, Richard ^b   Grossberg, Anna L ^a   Saigal, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; PROSTATE CANCER; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROPLASTY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE BENEFITS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URETHRAL STRICTURE; URINARY INCONTINENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 77949468098     PISSN: 14712490     EISSN: 14712490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-10-3     Document Type: Article

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