Management of radiation cystitis

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 206-214

  Smit, Shaun G ^a   Heyns, Chris F ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SALT; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; FLAVOXATE; FORMALDEHYDE; OXYBUTYNIN; OXYGEN; PENTOSAN POLYSULFATE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHENAZOPYRIDINE; PLACENTA EXTRACT; PROSTAGLANDIN; SILVER NITRATE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TERODILINE; TETRACHLORODECAOXIDE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ARGON LASER; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER FISTULA; BLADDER IRRIGATION; BLADDER SPASM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTITIS; CYSTOSCOPY; DIATHERMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYDROURETER; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEPHROSTOMY; PAIN; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOM; TENESMUS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URETEROSTOMY; URETHRAL CATHETERIZATION; URINALYSIS; URINARY DIVERSION; URINE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CYSTITIS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 77951025646     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2010.23     Document Type: Review

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