Erectile function and male reproduction in men with spinal cord injury: A review

Andrologia

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 139-165

  Dimitriadis, F ^a   Karakitsios, K ^b   Tsounapi, P ^a   Tsambalas, S ^b   Loutradis, D ^b   Kanakas, N ^b   Watanabe, N T ^a   Saito, M ^a   Miyagawa, I ^a   Sofikitis, N ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Material Science and Engineering Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

Erectile function; Infertility; Spinal cord injury; Testis

Indexed keywords

MIDODRINE; NEOSTIGMINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE V INHIBITOR; PHYSOSTIGMINE; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ABNORMAL VISION; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DYSPEPSIA; EJACULATION; EJACULATION DISORDER; ELECTROEJACULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUSHING; GOOSE SKIN; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PENILE VIBRATORY STIMULATION; PENIS ERECTION; PRURITUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SERTOLI CELL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TINGLING; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URETHRA;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 77952563429     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2009.00969.x     Document Type: Review

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